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This collection included various hymns on each book of the Bible. The hymn is one of 21 inspired by verses from the Book of Leviticus. [1] "A Charge to Keep I Have" was later included in A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists, published in 1780 by Charles's brother John Wesley.
"God Is Working His Purpose Out" is an English Christian hymn. It was written in 1894 by Arthur Campbell Ainger as a tribute to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson. [1] The original music for the hymn was written at the same time by Millicent D. Kingham but a number of other pieces of music have been used for the hymn in recent times.
It is believed that this disaster provided the inspiration for the lyrics of the song. [7] The hymn first appeared in Songs of Triumph, published in 1882 by the National Publishing Association for the Promotion of Holiness. [8] It was put to music by William J. Kirkpatrick, a Methodist gospel hymn writer who published over sixty hymnals. [9]
The has been and is published in more than fifty hymnbooks, including those of a number of significant denominations, such as the Church of England; [1] the United Church of Canada [1] and the Presbyterian Church in Canada (Book of Praise 1972 version, as Thy hand, O God, has guided; [2] and the current Book of Praise 1997 version, as Your hand, O God, has guided [3]); the Evangelical Lutheran ...
The hymn is based on the King James Bible's version of Paul's First Epistle to Timothy, Chapter 6, verse 12: "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses."
[5] He later allowed hymn-book compilers to alter the lyrics. For example, The Fellowship Hymn Book, with his permission, changed the phrase "one in hope and doctrine" to "one in hope and purpose." For the 1909 edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern, he changed the fifth line of the same verse from "We are not divided" to "Though divisions harass ...
On 10 November 1986 it was sung at the launch meeting of Ulster loyalist paramilitary group Ulster Resistance, a gathering of over 2,000 people at Ulster Hall, Belfast, where the hymn was described as "Ulster's battle hymn". [8] This hymn was also the only hymn sung at the 8th president, Martin Van Buren's funeral in Kinderhook, New York.
Rosemary Clooney - for her album Hymns from the Heart (1958). [10] Daniel Johnston - for his album 1990 (1990) The Martins - in their CD album An A Cappella Hymn Collection (1997) Amy Grant recorded a version of the song which appears on her 2002 studio album Legacy... Hymns and Faith, [11] and later on her 2015 compilation album Be Still and