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In hymnals such as the U.S. Armed Forces Hymnal (1959) and The Presbyterian Hymnal (1990) it is set to the tune St Bride composed by Samuel Howard. [3] [4] The Woman's Christian Temperance Union adopted the hymn as its "Crusade Hymn"; to be sung at meetings at local, state, and national levels of the organization. [5]
"Chester" is a patriotic anthem composed by William Billings and sung during the American Revolutionary War.Billings wrote the first version of the song for his 1770 songbook The New England Psalm Singer, and made improvements for the version in his The Singing Master's Assistant (1778).
Since 1847, the hymn is usually only performed with 3 verses; [4] the most recent British Methodist hymn book, "Singing the Faith", [7] some of the additional verses are included as a separate hymn with the first line "Pray without ceasing, pray"; this was common practice in 19th century hymnals [8] In the hymn, the words "adamant and gold" are ...
Catholic artist Audrey Assad recorded a version of this hymn on her "Good to Me" EP in 2013. Nancy Bryan sings a version of this hymn on her album Neon Angel from 2000. Christian artist Fernando Ortega recorded a version on his album Hymns & Meditations in 1994; It has been covered by the David Crowder Band on their 1999 album All I Can Say.
The First Lutheran hymnal, published in 1524 as Etlich Cristlich lider / Lobgesang und Psalm (Some Christian songs / canticle, and psalm), often also often referred to as the Achtliederbuch (Book with eight songs, literally Eightsongsbook), was the first Lutheran hymnal.
From the same publisher, lyrics and audio of many of the hymns are freely available at BTP's Little Flock section. [4] Edwin O.P. Mutton compiled a History of the "Little Flock Hymn Book" and its Authors, containing biographical information on all authors 1856–1962, and a historical section covering details of revisions of the same time period.
Psalm 4 is the fourth psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in the English of the King James Version: "Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness". In Latin, it is known as "Cum invocarem" . [ 1 ]
[2] [3] The song describes the Christian doctrine of grace and justification by faith articulated in Paul's Letter to the Romans in Romans 5:1-2 and 14-16. [4] The last line of the refrain, "Grace that is greater than all our sin!", and also the second line of the first verse, "Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt!", both reflect Romans 5 ...