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"Praise to The Living God" and its lyrics have often been combined with other hymns to create hybrids. [1] In the 1930s, for example, "The God of Abraham Praise" was sung to a melody called "Leoni" which was composed by Myer Lyon and adopted by Thomas Olivers as the music for the hymn. [3]
The full expression is "By the living Jingo", substituting for the phrase "By the living God" (referring to the Christian belief that Jesus Christ rose from the dead). "Living Jingo" refers to a legend attached to St. Gengulphus (Jingo for short) that after his martyrdom by being hacked to pieces, the pieces animated and hopped out to accuse ...
Yigdal (Hebrew: יִגְדַּל , romanized: yiḡdal, lit. 'be exalted') is a Jewish hymn which in various rituals shares with Adon Olam the place of honor at the opening of the morning and the close of the evening service.
Jaroslav Vajda (April 28, 1919 – May 10, 2008) was an American hymnist.. Vajda was born to a Lutheran pastor of Slovak descent in Lorain, Ohio, where his father, Rev. John Vajda, was a pastor. [1]
Singing the Living Tradition was the first standard denominational hymnbook to include songs from Unitarians in Eastern Europe, spirituals from the African American tradition, folk and popular songs, music of major, non-Christian religious traditions, and chants and rounds gathered from the various traditions of the world.
The God of Abraham Praise is a Christian adaptation of the well known Jewish hymn "Yigdal", loosely translated and Christianised by the evangelist Thomas Olivers after a visit to the Great Synagogue of London in 1770.
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The lyrics of this variant are as follows: Faith of our mothers, living still In cradle song and bedtime prayer; In nursery lore and fireside love, Thy presence still pervades the air. Faith of our mothers, living faith, We will be true to thee till death.