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We leave our plows and workshops, our wives and children dear, With hearts too full for utterance, with but a silent tear. We dare not look behind us but steadfastly before. We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more! We are coming, coming, our Union to restore, We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more!
"The God of Abraham Praise" was first published as a leaflet titled "A Hymn to the God of Abraham" in 1772. It was later published nationwide by Wesley in the Methodist hymnal "Sacred Harmony". The hymn later made it to the United States after being published in Joshua Leavitt's "The Christian Lyre". [5]
Alvin Ailey made "Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham" [4] the music for the triumphant finale of his internationally known choreography Revelations, which was born out of the choreographer's "blood memories" of his childhood in rural Texas and attending the Baptist Church with his mother. [5]
This is a list of original Roman Catholic hymns. The list does not contain hymns originating from other Christian traditions despite occasional usage in Roman Catholic churches. The list has hymns in Latin and English.
The following lists contains all the hymns composed by Sankey that are found in the "1200" edition of Sacred Songs and Solos. Many of these hymns are also found in the six-volume collection, Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs , which Sankey edited with Philip Bliss and others, which was published in the United States between 1876 and 1891.
Along with preaching, Olivers was also a hymn-writer and wrote 20 hymns. [2] His most well-known hymn was "The God of Abraham Praise", [2] which he wrote after hearing Lyon sing "Yigdal" in the Great Synagogue of London. He was inspired by Lyon and paraphrased Yigdal to give it a Christian character and was given the music by Lyon, which ...
Jesus is coming soon, morning or night or noon; Many will meet their doom, trumpets will sound, All of the dead shall rise, righteous meet in the skies, Going where no one dies, heavenward bound. Verse 2: (not often included in recordings) Love of so many cold; losing their home of gold; This in God's Word is told; evils abound.
The Hymn of Jesus was so great a success as to bewilder its composer; he quoted the Biblical verse, "Woe to you when all men speak well of you!". [17] One of the performers at the original Royal College of Music performance later remembered that "To many the work was like a trumpet call in the renaissance of English creative music. To some of ...