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A GREAT DAY of SINGING Began in the 20Th Century As an Annual Sunday Worship Service Set Aside for the Celebration of Music Memorial United Methodist Church Memorial United Methodist Church Fifth Sunday of Pentecost Fifth Sunday of Pentecost June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 A special welcome to our guests. Your visit is a blessing to us, and we are glad you are here! Please let us know if there is anything we can do for you. Children of all ages are welcome in worship. Hearing assistance (headphones, earbud, or T-coil) is available during worship. Hymn 400 Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (Robert Robinson) * Please stand in your heart or posture. UMH=United Methodist Hymnal.; TFWS=The Faith We Sing. Hymn 504 The Old Rugged Cross (George Bennard) th A GREAT DAY OF SINGING began in the 20 century as an annual Sunday worship service set aside for the celebration of music and congregational singing. Though less used *Hymn 512 When the Storms of Life Are Raging, Stand By Me (Charles Tindley) today than it once was, it remains an annual event in some churches. Methodists have al- ways been a singing people. The world has never seen a greater hymn writer than Charles Hymn 641 Fill My Cup, Lord (Richard Blanchard) Wesley, or a more important and influential hymnal editor than John Wesley. This service seeks to celebrate the great heritage and tradition of Methodist song. All of the hymns se- Hymn 707 Hymn of Promise (Natalie Sleeth) lected were composed by Methodist writers, or have a strong historical Methodist connec- tion. Hymn 603 Come, Holy Ghost, Our Hearts Inspire (Charles Wesley) The Lord is with you. And also with you. Hymn 181 Ye Servants of God (Charles Wesley) Welcome and Announcements *Hymn 374 Standing on the Promises of God (R. Kelso Carter) Prelude And Can it Be Charles Wesley/Anna Laura Page Verses 1 and 4 only *Call to Worship UMH #74, Sung Response 2 Hymn 473 Lead Me, Lord (Samuel Sebastian Wesley) *Hymn 304 Easter People, Raise Your Voices (William M. James) Hymn 472 Near to the Heart of God (Cleland B. McAfee) *Hymn 68 When In Our Music God Is Glorified (Fred Pratt Green) Offertory Hymn 87 What Gift Can We Bring (Jane Marshall) Vs 1, all; Vs 2, Women; Vs 3, Men; Vs 4, All (Choir will sing) *Hymn 57 O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Charles Wesley) *Offertory Response Hymn 95 – DOXOLOGY Omit Verse 6 Hymn 140 Great Is Thy Faithfulness (Thomas Chisholm/William Runyan) *Hymn 98 To God Be the Glory (Fanny Crosby) Hymn 127 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah (William Williams) Hymn 369 Blessed Assurance (Fanny Crosby) Hymn 666 Shalom to You (Elise Eslinger) Hymn 380 There’s Within My Heart a Melody (Luther Bridgers) Fifth Sunday of Pentecost *BENEDICTION AND CLOSING June 24 Hymn 672 God Be With You Til We Meet Again (Jeremiah Rankin/William Tomer) 2018 Verses 1 – 3 with accompaniment, Verse 4 – a cappella *Please stand Music Ministry Rehearsals One-Room Summer Sunday School BELL CHOIR OFF for Summer CHILDRENS CHOIR OFF for Summer Classes available for ages 3-103 CHANCEL CHOIR OFF for Summer Sunday School, 9:15-10:15am If you are interested in helping contact Betty King, [email protected] Memorial’s Prayer Connection Send prayer requests to [email protected]. Closed for Summer All are welcome in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows church service. Poolesville Lodge No 97 Is having its “Annual Summer Picnic” M e m o r i a l ’ s P u r p o s e for Seniors, Widow, Widowers and Orphans . June 30, 2018 from 12:30pm-3:30pm Loving God [email protected] At Memorial UMC Fellowship Hall Welcoming All 17821 Elgin Rd.; Poolesville, MD 20837 Serving Neighbors Please RSVP by June 25, 2018 Together 2010 Through Jesus - Contact: Richard Norwood 301-943-6845 (C) www.PMUMC.org Christ Spencer Schmidt 301-349-2057 (H) 349 - 301 Upcoming Liturgist Schedule United MethodistMemorial Church Date June 24 July 1 July 8 17821 Elgin Rd. / 358, Poolesville17821 Elgin Rd. / PO Box MD 20837 Scott McGrew & Liturgist Ralph Hitchens Bob Bachman Ralph Hitchens "There's Within My Heart a Melody" (380) "In the Bulb There Is a Promise" ("Hymn of Promise") (707) Composed in 1910, it is sometimes inaccurately stated that this hymn was written fol- lowing a fire that took the lives of the author's wife and children. Author and composer Luther Bridgers attended Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, and served as a Method- ist Episcopal Church, South, evangelist in eastern Europe, and later as pastor in Georgia and North Carolina. "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" (400) "Come, Holy Ghost, Our Hearts Inspire" (603) This Wesley hymn was first published in 1740 under the topic "Before The (fountain, fire, key, dove) and for its de- scription of the person and work of the Holy Spirit. "The Old Rugged Cross" (504) “Ye Servants of God” (181) "When the Storms of Life Are Raging Stand By Me" (512) This was the first hymn by an African American to be included in a Methodist hymnal (1966). Charles Tindley was the son of slaves, taught himself to read and write, and worked as a janitor in the Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He also took night classes and correspondence courses from Boston School of Theology, and was eventually ordained. He served Methodist congregations in New Jersey and Delaware. In 1902 he returned to Calvary Methodist as its pastor and the congregation grew to over 7,000 members. Over his protest, it was renamed Tindley Temple Methodist Church. "Fill My Cup, Lord" (641) NOTES ON THE HYMNS "Easter People, Raise Your Voices" {304) "When in Our Music God Is Glorified" (68) theme of an unchanging God in a changing world. "Guide Me, 0 Thou Great Jehovah" (127) since Charles Wesley. William Williams was well-known in Wales during the last half of the 18th century as a Methodist poet and preacher. The original Welsh title is "Nerth I fyned trwy'r Anial- "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing" (57) wch," which means "Strength to pass through the Wilderness." Williams composed This is the most known and sung of all the Wesley hymns, and is often considered the signa- over 800 Welsh and 100 English hymns. ture hymn of Methodism. It has nearly always been the first hymn in Methodist hymnals. Charles Wesley wrote this text to celebrate his conversion on May 21, 1738. Wesley titled the "Shalom to You" (666) original eighteen stanzas "For the Anniversary Day of One's Conversion." Seventeen stanzas Shalom is the Hebrew word for peace, and is used as both greeting and farewell. This is appear as no. 58 in The United Methodist Hymnal. the last of a four-stanza English text by Elise Eslinger, former Director of Music Re- sources for the United Methodist General Board of Discipleship in Nashville. The text "To God Be the Glory" (98) was written to go with the tune SOMOS DEL SENOR, originally published in Cele- bremos II, 1983. "God Be With You Till We Meet Again" (672) When author Jeremiah Rankin, a Congregational minister, wrote these words, he se- lected the music of William G. Tomer to accompany them. Tomer was a veteran of the US Civil War working in Washington, DC, where he also was music director for the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. This hymn, along with similar songs, was often "Blessed Assurance" (369) used as a parting song at the end of revivals and camp meetings and when a minister This is the most sung of all of Fanny Crosby's over 8,000 hymns, and is among the most popu- or musician left a congregation. It was long used at the New Jersey Ocean Grove lar hymns of United Methodists today. It was also used frequently in the Moody and Sankey Campmeeting Association and by Moody and Sankey in their meetings. It is often sung revivals and Billy Graham crusades. Crosby, blind since six weeks after her birth, began a capella, slowly and expressively, with great emotion. writing at age six. She married musician Alexander Van Alstyne, also blind. She was a lifelong Methodist, and collaborated with the most popular gospel hymn writers of her time, includ- ing Bradbury, Doane, Lowry, Sankey, and Kirkpatrick. .
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