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The hymn's first known appearance in a hymnal, and in America, was in 1784 in Divine Hymns, or Spiritual Songs: for the use of Religious Assemblies and Private Christians compiled by Joshua Smith, a lay Baptist minister from New Hampshire. It became prevalent in American publications but not English ones.
The earliest Christian poetry, in fact, appears in the New Testament. Canticles such as the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, which appear in the Gospel of Luke, take the Biblical poetry of the psalms of the Hebrew Bible as their models. [1] Many Biblical scholars also believe that St Paul of Tarsus quotes bits of early Christian hymns in his epistles.
Joseph Scriven, described as one who lived the Christian life of service to his fellows, was born at Ballymoney Lodge, Banbridge on the 10th of September 1819. His father was Captain John Scriven of the Royal Marines; His mother was Jane Medlicott, sister of a Wiltshire Vicar, the Rev. Joseph Medlicott whom her son was named after.
A merry Christmas-day. – L.A. Franc. 24. When Santa Claus Comes. A good time is coming, I wish it were here, The very best time in the whole of the year; I’m counting each day on my fingers ...
On our way, day by day: 1 On the cross my Savior died: 1 On the Eastern plain the flocks are sleeping: 1 On the mount exalted or in valley low: 2 Once so drearily we scanned the cloudy sky: 1 Once upon the cross Jesus died for me: 2 One more day of service ends: 2 Onward, onward, speed thy conq’ring flight: 2 Open, O gates of glory: 2
The hymn's lyrics refer to the heavenly host: "Thee we would be always blessing / serve thee with thy hosts above".. At its first appearance, the hymn was in four stanzas of eight lines (8.7.8.7.D), and this four-stanza version remains in common and current use to the present day, being taken up as early as 1760 in Anglican collections such as those by Madan (1760 and 1767), Conyers (1772 ...
The poem may be viewed as both Christian and pre-Christian. Bruce Mitchell notes that The Dream of the Rood is "the central literary document for understanding [the] resolution of competing cultures which was the presiding concern of the Christian Anglo-Saxons". [24] Within the single culture of the Anglo-Saxons is the conflicting Germanic ...
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