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Flymn Writers Tell Their Story: Fiow Their Lives Were Songsto God Flymn Writers Tell Their Story: FIow Their Lives Were Songsto God Af{ymnfwtiaof Developedby Hal H. Hopson hymn f'estivalis an excellent way to begin May the songs on our lips spring from our hearts, may they the choir year and to pnrmote participaticlnin the music rernind us that you are a God of love, and that no sin or failure program of your church. Using the anniversarytheme, Make is beyond your lbrgiveness. Your Lif-ea Song to God, this hymn festival will help your singersand your congregation understandand appreciatehow May our songs remind us that you are a God of beauty and hyrnn writers throughout the ageshave offbred their lives to holiness.Thank you for poets,composers, singers and God. In this article you will find complete information instrumentalistswho join your creativity to bring to lif-eyour regarding the hymn f-estival.the complete text, and a listing of goodnessthrough word and music. "perfor- the hymns. Comments on each hymn are given as to mance practice" and information fbr ordering the music. May our songs remind us that you are the God of all the This is a unique hymn f'estivalthat f-eaturesthe primary attlicted. Therefclre, we remernber the faithful, who having hymn writers through the ages.telling their own story in first rnademusic on this earth, now sing yclur praisesin heaven. person.An appropriatehymn is sung following each hymn writer's comments.It was originally conceivedand written to May our songs remind us that you are the God of all the saints. enhancethe understandingof hymns by all generations, Therefbre. we remember those in whose lives praise is including children. Fur example. each hymnwriter rnay be becauseof injustice,bigotry, poverty, illness or dressedin appropriatecosturne. It is very effective if all hymn ::rt-rtfii, writers memorize their lines and speak directly and naturally to the congregation.Their demeanor and manner of speaking May our songsremind us thatyou areworthy of all our praise. should expressthe characterand nationality they airerepre- May we leavethis place of worshipwith a new resolveto senting.For example. Fanny Crosby, the blind hymn writer. honorwhatever things are honorable, excellent, and worthy of may wear sun_9lasses.walk with a white cane, and be assisted celebration,whatever things are lovely, and gracious, and of to the lectern. The British hymn writers may speak with an good report. appropriateuccent. A short congregationalrehearsal before the hymn f-estival Hearus, O God, as we gatherup our prayersand praisesin the beginswould be helpful. particularlyin explainingthe singing wordswhich our Lord himselftaught us. of Ot'tlre Futher's Love Begotten and People,s,Clup ktur Hurttls. THE LORD'S PRAYER (to be prayedby all) Hymn Writers Tell Their Story: How Their Lives Were Songsto God OHal H. Hopson.1998. Uscd by perrnission I am Bishop Ambrose of Milan. Prayers to begin the serviceof worship It is my pleasureto be thefirst hymn writerto speakas we beginour hymnjourney. It is recordedin the New Testa- O God.let the Amen soundfrom your peopleagain. Gladly rnentthat the flrst Christianssathered. broke bread and sang we praiseyou filrever. to TheCHORISTER together.These son_sswere primarily psalms fiom their Jewish texts and tunes myself. From all these various resourceswe heritage.Early Christian hymnody developed fiom two createdwhat is known as the German chorale. influences:persecution and theological discord. My most popular and probably the best known of all A seriouscontroversy in the fourth century was that of the German chorales, rs Eirt fbste Burg, A Migltr Fortres.gIs Our Arians. who deniedthe divinity of Christ.They were a very God. militant and do-{matic-{roup. One day they tried to besiegethe cathedralin Milan. where I was bishop. As they approached HYMN the cathedral.I gatheredthe faithful inside. We sang our A Mighn FortressLs Our God Ein.f'esteBurg hymns with such gllsto and intent that the Arians were fbrced (Congregationsings stanza I and2, andchoir stanza3) to leave. One of my contemporariesin the fourth century was a Spanishpoet named Aurelius Clemens Prudentius.In addition to his hymns being scripturally grounded, they were always objective. The last stanzaswere usually a doxology to the I am John Calvin, a Protestant reformer from Geneva, Holy Trinity: God the Father,the Son and the Holy Spirit. Switzerland. I am credited for establishinghymns in the Christian I havewritten my theologicalviews in a ratherlengthy churches.In the fburth century there were no organs in the treatisecalled theInstitules - 80 chaptersin all. My views of churches,and no harmonized hymns. We sang our hymns in congregationalsong are rather unisonto plainsongmelodies. strict.We singfor onepur- May we capture the unique meaning and beauty of the pose:that is, to praisethe medieval hyrnn O.l'tlteFuther's Loye Begotten as we sing it absolutesovereignty of God as antiphonally. writtenin the Holy Scriptures. I believethat the only texts HYMN worthyof beingsung in public Ol tlte Futlrer'.sLove Be,qottert Divinum mt'sterium worshipare those drawn fiom Holy Scripture,particularly the psalms. The tunesshould be simple,with easilylearned I am Martin Luther. melodiesand rhythms. To When I nailedmy Ninety-FiveTheses to the doorof the achievethis goal,I enlistedthe WittenbergCastle Church in l-517,I startedthe Protestant bestpoets and musicians to Reftrrmation.Springing from this renewalwas a new write songsthat people could hymnody.that is. text in the languageof the peopleand tunes sing. What developed was the metrical psalm. as opposed tc'r thatcould be sungby the entirecongregation. the free fbrm of the medieval chant. These were psalm settings As a Roman Catholic with a hymn-like, predictablestructure in both the text and the priest I enjoyedthe singing music. of the hymns by the monas- Our next selectionis an example of a metrical psalm. tic choir; however, I became Sclmeclf thesetunes have been criticized as being too up-beat. concerned that the congrega- In f'act, Queen Elizabeth sarcastically ref-erredto them as "Genevan tion was singing less and jigr." You will be interestedin an Ordinance issued less.In fact. women had not by Parliarnentin 1644 governing the practice of lining out beenallowed to sing in psalms. It stated: church sincethe sixth We decreethat the whole congregation may join herein. century. Hymn singing had every one that can read is to have a psalm- book. and all been taken over exclusively others, not disabled by age or otherwise, are to be by choirs of monks. exhorted to learn to read. But tor the present.where many I f'elt that it was crucial fbr in the congregationcannot read, it is convenient that the a Protestant hymn to be minister, or sornefit person appointed by him and the createdthat the entire other ruling officers. do lineout the psalm, line by line. consregationcould sin-c.This proved to be a challengeto before the singing of the congregationthereof. poets and rnr.tsiciansalike. Chants were adaptedfrom the Roman Catholic Church into strophic hymn forms. We also Experiencethe joy of connecting with the saintsof past set sacredtexts to funes that the people were singing and centuriesas we sing Psalm 17 to the same tune to which it was whistling in the streets.I was brazenenough to write some sung by the reformers in Geneva well over 400 years ago. '1998 Summer 17 "lining-out" We will singthis in fashion;that is, the song leaderwill singa line andthe congregationwill simplyrepeat it. This wasa techniqueused by manyof the churchesin the early yearsof the ProtestantReformation to teachpeople the newhymns and psalms. I am Charles Wesley. Singwith.ioy. Psalm 47. I wasthe eighteenthchild bornto Susannaand Samuel Wesley,four yearsafier my brotherJohn was born. METRICAL PSALM Johnand I wereboth Peoples,Clup Your Huntl.v.l Genevan 47 ordainedpriests in the AnglicanChurch in the latterpart of the eighteenth century.Through John's preachingand my I am Isaac Watts. hymnwritingwe created I lived in the seventeenthcentury and was a minister in quitea stir in thechurch of the Independent Church in England. I am ofien referred to as our day.We actually the Fatherof English Hymnody. touchedoff an Evangelical Whenlwasachild, Revival that becamethe congregationalsinging was foundationfor the establish- limited primarily to the ment of the Methodist singingof metricalpsalms. I Church. rememberbeing very boredin I was alwaysready at a "improve church,and I wonderedwhy moment'snotice to an occasion"by writing a hymn "to we sangonly onekind of drivea lessonhome." I wrotehymns everywhere I went - song.I wascomplaining on horseback,on ships.during mealtime, and before going to aboutthis one day to one of sleepat night.I havewritten over 6,000 hymns. Through my the eldersin my church.He textsI attemptedto expressthe raptureof the soul in its "Young replied, man,if you responseto the wonderand the love of God asproclaimed in think they arenot good the gospel.The gospel,for me.demanded that I address enough,find us something importantsocial issues such as human slavery, war, inhuman better."I thoughtto myself, prisons,unjust laws. and the abuseof privilege,power. and "He's right." Oneof my first wealth. hymnsbegan with theselines: Undoubtedly,my mostpopular hymn rs O For u Thou- Beholdthe glories ol the Lamb sandTonguesTo Sirzg.You arefortunate in singingthis Amid his Father'sthrone: reducedversion. My originalversion had l8 stanzas.It has Preparenew honorsfor his name, beencalled the themesong of the MethodistChurch' It was And songsbefirre unknown. inspiredby a commenta devoutChristian friend made to me: "Had I a thousandtongues. I would praiseGod with themall." Hymns beganto flow from my pen.They were all in simplemeters that could be easilysung, and they focused HYMN O for a ThousandTongues to Sittg A:.mon primarilyon the basictenets of theChristian faith. Some have (Directorsmake stanza assignments according to eachchoir, goneso f'aras to saythat I usheredin a goldenera of English serviceand congregation) hymnody.As pastorclf a church,one day I waspreparing a sermonon Galatians6:14.
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