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Hymns of the Victorian Era Volume XI (ISBN: 978-0-9560664-0-4) Published by Grasshopper Publishing Limited, 2008 Price: £16.00 each (inc. p. & p.) Orders for two or more books will qualify for a reduction, each book being priced at £14.00, and further discounts are available for group purchases on request. Hymns of the Victorian Era Volume XI includes just a few of the many hymns written in the century dominated by the industrious Victorians. In fact, it has been said that more Christian hymns flowed from this era than from all the previous years of Christian hymnody added together. For three centuries or so, the metrical versions of the Psalms (referred to as ‘the hymn book of the Bible’) had formed the bedrock of corporate worship - whether spoken or sung - in the Protestant Church. Although their importance was recognised well into the nineteenth century, the world was on the threshold of great change. Indeed, in this Victorian era, the surge in entrepreneurship in every facet of life is mirrored in the following extract from the preface to The Folio Edition of A.N. Wilson’s The Victorians: The Industrial Revolution changed Britain from a small, agricultural country, governed by aristocrats, to an unimaginably rich powerhouse of manufacture, engineering skill, scientific advance, intellectual curiosity, literary abundance, and sheer, palpable energy. Whether you look at the growth of the railways, or the prodigious series of novels written by the young Charles Dickens, or the development of the Empire overseas, you will be struck by this feeling of Britain fizzing with life and power, with optimism, with a sense of its future … The story of the Victorians, therefore, is not one which finished with the death of the old Queen Empress in 1901. It continues. There is hardly a major global story in the newspapers today which does not in some way have its origins in decisions which Victorians made, problems they attempted to solve, or problems which they invented. Our chosen hymns are: All things bright and beautiful - City of God, how broad and far Crown Him with many crowns - For the beauty of the earth From Thee all skill and science flow - God be with you till we meet again God of our fathers, known of old - Hills of the north, rejoice Hushed was the evening hymn - Just as I am, without one plea Make me a captive, Lord - My God, I thank thee, who hast made O Jesus, I have promised - O love of God, how strong and true O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness - Onward, Christian soldiers Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin - Saviour, blessèd Saviour Take my life and let it be - There is a book (who runs may read) There’s a light upon the mountains - These things shall be, - a loftier race Thine be the glory - To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise and our hymn-writers are: Cecil F. Alexander; Sabine Baring-Gould; Edward H. Bickersteth; John E. Bode; Horatius Bonar; Matthew Bridges; Edmond Budry; James D. Burns; Henry Burton; William C. Dix; Charlotte Elliott; Frances R. Havergal; Richard B. Hoyle (tr.); Samuel Johnson; John Keble; Charles Kingsley; Rudyard Kipling; George Matheson John S.B. Monsell; Charles E. Oakley; Folliett S. Pierpoint; Adelaide A. Procter; Jeremiah E. Rankin; John A. Symonds; Godfrey Thring The complimentary CD, which accompanies this volume, was recorded at St. Patrick’s Church, Patterdale in Cumbria by Tim Churchill of Sound Recording, Lancaster. Once again, we are most grateful to Mike Town, who has taught music at Eton College since 1973, for his skilled organ accompaniment. |
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