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Lord, pour Thy Spirit from on high

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 209 hymnals Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Lyrics: Lord, pour thy Spirit from on high, And thine ordainèd servants bless; Graces and gifts to each supply, And clothe thy priests with righteousness. Within thy temple when they stand, To teach the truth as taught by thee, Savior, like stars in thy right hand, Let all thy Church's pastors be. 410 Wisdom, and zeal, and faith impart, Firmness and meekness from above, To bear thy people in their heart, And love the souls whom thou dost love; To watch, and pray, and never faint, By day and night strict guard to keep, To warn the sinner, cheer the saint, To feed thy lambs, and fold thy sheep. So, when their work is finished here, They may in hope their charge resign; So, when their Master shall appear, They may with crowns of glory shine. Amen. Used With Tune: FEDERAL STREET

Ye Christian heralds, go, proclaim

Author: Bourne H. Draper Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 468 hymnals Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Lyrics: Ye Christian heralds, go, proclaim Salvation in Emmanuel's Name: To distant climes the tidings bear, And plant the Rose of Sharon there. God shield you with a wall of fire, With holy zeal your hearts inspire, Bid raging winds their fury cease, And calm the savage breast to peace. And when our labors all are o'er, Then may we meet to part no more, Meet, with the ransomed throng to fall, And crown the Savior Lord of all. Amen. Used With Tune: MISSIONARY CHANT

Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire

Author: John Cosin Appears in 238 hymnals Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Lyrics: Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, And lighten with celestial fire. Thou the anointing Spirit art, Who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart. Thy blessèd unction from above Is comfort, life, and fire of love. Enable with perpetual light The dullness of our blinded sight. Anoint and cheer our soilèd face With the abundance of thy grace. 414 Keep far our foes, give peace at home: Where thou art guide, no ill can come. Teach us to know the Father, Son, And thee of both to be but One, That, through the ages all along, This may be our endless song: Praise to thy eternal merit, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Used With Tune: VENI CREATOR Text Sources: Latin

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VENI CREATOR

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 145 hymnals Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Tune Sources: Sarum Plainsong Mode VIII Tune Key: E Major Incipit: 56545 65122 11561 Used With Text: Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire

MELCOMBE

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 378 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel Webbe Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 55432 16551 76554 Used With Text: O Spirit of the living God

MISSIONARY CHANT

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 469 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Heinrich C. Zeuner Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 33331 22771 11132 Used With Text: Ye Christian heralds, go, proclaim

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God, deigning man to be

Author: Frank Damrosch, Jr. Hymnal: The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 #131 (1940) Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Tune Title: LITTLE CORNARD

Lord, pour thy Spirit from on high

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 #219 (1940) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Tune Title: HAMBURG

Rise up, O men of God!

Author: William Pierson Merrill Hymnal: The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 #535 (1940) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Tune Title: FESTAL SONG

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Felice Giardini

1716 - 1796 Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Composer of "MOSCOW" in The Hymnal Felice Giardini, born in Italy. When young, he studied singing, harpsichord, and violin. He became a composer and violin virtuoso. By age 12 he was playing in theatre orchestras. His most instructive lesson: While playing a solo passage during an opera, he decided to show off his skills by improvising several bravura variations that the composer, Jommelli, had not written . Although the audience applauded loudly, Jomelli, who happened to be there, went up and slapped Giardini in the face. He learned a lesson from that. He toured Europe as a violinist, considered one of the greatest musical artists of his time. He served as orchestra leader and director of the Italian Opera in London, giving concerts. He tried to run a theatre in Naples, but encountered adversity. He went to Russia, but had little fortune there, where he died. John Perry

Louis Bourgeois

1510 - 1561 Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Composer of "TOULON" in The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 Louis Bourgeois (b. Paris, France, c. 1510; d. Paris, 1561). In both his early and later years Bourgeois wrote French songs to entertain the rich, but in the history of church music he is known especially for his contribution to the Genevan Psalter. Apparently moving to Geneva in 1541, the same year John Calvin returned to Geneva from Strasbourg, Bourgeois served as cantor and master of the choristers at both St. Pierre and St. Gervais, which is to say he was music director there under the pastoral leadership of Calvin. Bourgeois used the choristers to teach the new psalm tunes to the congregation. The extent of Bourgeois's involvement in the Genevan Psalter is a matter of scholarly debate. Calvin had published several partial psalters, including one in Strasbourg in 1539 and another in Geneva in 1542, with melodies by unknown composers. In 1551 another French psalter appeared in Geneva, Eighty-three Psalms of David, with texts by Marot and de Beze, and with most of the melodies by Bourgeois, who supplied thirty four original tunes and thirty-six revisions of older tunes. This edition was republished repeatedly, and later Bourgeois's tunes were incorporated into the complete Genevan Psalter (1562). However, his revision of some older tunes was not uniformly appreciated by those who were familiar with the original versions; he was actually imprisoned overnight for some of his musical arrangements but freed after Calvin's intervention. In addition to his contribution to the 1551 Psalter, Bourgeois produced a four-part harmonization of fifty psalms, published in Lyons (1547, enlarged 1554), and wrote a textbook on singing and sight-reading, La Droit Chemin de Musique (1550). He left Geneva in 1552 and lived in Lyons and Paris for the remainder of his life. Bert Polman

Washington Gladden

1836 - 1918 Topics: Ember Days and Ordination Author of "O Master, let me walk with Thee" in The Hymnal Washington Gladden (1836-1918) was called to the First Congregational Church in Columbus, OH in 1882 and remained there for 32 years. In 1883-84 he was known for his success in fighting the corrupt Tweed Ring, for arbitrating the Telegraphers' Strike and the Hocking Valley Coal Strike. He attacked John D. Rockefeller, Sr. for giving $100,000 of "tainted money" to the Congregational Church's Foreign Missions program. Throughout his ministry he emphasized applying the gospel to life in America. He wrote "O Master, let me walk with thee" in 1879. Mary Louise VanDyke =================== Gladden, Washington, was born at Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, Feb. 11, 1836; was educated at Williams College: and entered the Congregational Ministry. He was for some time editor of the New York Independent, and of the Sunday Afternoon. In the Sunday Afternoon, his hymn, "O Master, let me walk with Thee" (Walking with God), appeared in 3 stanzas of 8 lines, in March 1879. Of these stanzas i. and iii. are in Laudes Domini, 1884, and others. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================== Gladden, W., p. 1565, ii. Dr. Gladden has been Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio, since 1882. His hymn-writing has not been extensive. The most popular of his hymns is "0 Master, let me walk with Thee," noted on p. 1565, ii. It has come into somewhat extensive use during the last ten years. Additional hymns in common use include:— 1. Behold a Sower from afar. [The Kingdom of God.] In the Boston Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, this is dated 1897. 2. Forgive, 0 Lord, the doubts that break Thy promises to me. [Doubting repented of.] Dated 1879, in The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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