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in the church at Edensor at the funeral of Lord Frederick Cavendish, May 11, 1882. Tr. as:—
1. O! Let him whose sorrow. A very good translation from Bunsen's text, by Miss Cox, in her Sacred Hys. from the German, 1841, p. 181 (H. from the Ger., 1864, p. 189), included in Alford's Ps. & Hys., 1844, and others. Since its reception into H. A. & M, 1861 {unaltered save st. vii. and the change to the plural), it has attained a wide popularity, and is fonnd im many English aud American collections. In the Unitarian fys. for the Ch. of Christ, Boston, U.S. 1853, the Hymnary, 1872, and others, it begins with st. ii,, "Where the mourner weeping," and in C. H. Bateman's Sacred Dfelodies, 1872, with st. iii, "God will never leave thee." In Dale's Haglish Hf. Bk, 1874 (iu order to make up 4 double st.) four lines, beginning "On Thy truth relying," were added from J. Montgomery's "In the hour of trial" (p. 666, fi}, This form is also in J. L. Porter's Coil., 1876, and Horder's Cong. Hys., 1884, .
Another tr, is: " When in thine hours of grief," by Lady #. Fortescue, 1843, p, TL. .
Otfrid of Weissenburg, was b. about the beginning of the 9th cent., according to zome in Franconia, according to others near tho Lake of Constanz. After receiving the elements of his education in the Benedictine monastery of Weiesenburg in Alsace, he went, about 830, to the cathedral school nt Conatanz, He afterwords studied at the school of the monnastery of Fulda, where, under the care of Rabanus Maurug, he learned to love his mother tonguc, In 846 he left Fulda, and, ofter a short stay at St. Gall, settled as a monk and priest at Weisseuburg, where he became Tead of the monastic school. Here he wrote aud completed about 865 a German
tical Life of cur Lord (or Harmony of the Boaeck), or Evangelienluch, in 5 books of 15,000 lines (first printed at Basel in 1571; recent eds. by E. G. Graff, 1831; J. Kelle, 1856; P. Piper, 1878; O. Erdmann, 1882; tra. into modern German by G. Rapp, 1858, F. Rechenberg, 1862, J. Kelle, 1870, &e.), a moat interesting work philologically,and the earlieat example of a long German pocm in rhyme. (Allg. Deutsche Biog. xxiv. 529; Geedeke's Grundriss, vol. i, 1884, p. 22, dic.) Bosides this he wrote a number of rhymed prayera in German. Two which have been aserihed to him, and have been tr. by Miss Winkworth, are noted onder their first lines, see Do himliese trohtin (p. 815, i.), and Got, thir elgonhat int (p. 448, 2). They are in bis manner, but appear to be of later date. Miss Winkworth aleo gives,a tr. of a section of the EvangeHenbuch, which begina thus;—
Minot wnsih thimu firt. This is chapter xviii. of Book i,, and is on the Xpiphany, It is in Wackernagel's Deutsche Kirchentied, ti. p. 8, in 23 st. of 4 L; in Erdmenn's ed. of the Evangetienbuck, 1882, p, 47, ko. Erdinann, in his notes at p. 370, speaks of this chapter as the firet detailed mystical explanation [of the Return of the Magi to thelr own land]. The removing Of the Magi from their home and thelr home-golng by another way reminds ce of our Home, the glorious Paradise {lines 1-10); we bare lost it by pride, self-wilt and
isobedience, and aojourn in sorrowful banishment 11-39). In order te reach Home again, we must follow
Tew wey of purity, bnmility, love and self-denial
—48)," unly (r. is Now warneth ne the Wiss
'31Sens fare." By Misr Winkworth, 1869,p.17. £3. M.] |
OUR FATHER, THRONED
O38 yap Préras Toby tapdrrovras. St. Andrew, of Crete. [In Temptation] The title given by Dr. Neale to his é. in his Hymns of the Eastern Church is "Stichera for the Second Week of the Great Fast." After the most careful research nothing corresponding to these Stickera can be found in any editions of the Oetoechue which have come under our votice; and the Rey. 8. G. Hatherly, in the 4th ed. of Dr. Nesle's Hys. of the Enuatern Church, 1882, says, "'These Btichera sre not in use in the Church Service." Dr. Neale's ir, "Christian! dost thou see them?" appesred in his Hys. of the #. C., 1862, in 4 st. of 81, and was firet pub. for congregations] use in the Parich H. Bh., 1863. From that date it rapidly grew into favour, until few editors think it wise to countenance its omission from: their collections. Some hynmals, including the Sarum, the 8. P. C.K. Ps. & Hys., and their Church Hymns, have altered texts, but ZF. A. & M. in Neale's original tr, (J. J.J
Ourblest Redeomer, ore He breathed. Harriet Auber. (Whitsuntide.] 1st pub. in her Spirit of the Pealms, 1829, p, 147, in 7 st. of 41,03 one of two bymns for * Whit-Sunday." It was some time before it came into common use, but when onee bronght before the notice of hymnal compilers, it specdily attained to great popularity, It is in common use in all Eneglish-speakiny conntriea, and hag been translated into severe! Janguages, 'The text asin H. A. & M. rendered into Latin by . &. Calverley, was given in Biggs's annotated ed. of H. A, & M. as "Qni Pretium nostrae Vitam dedit; ante Snprenum." In most hymmels it is given in an abbreviated form, and sometimes with a doxology (net in the original), os in Thring's Coll, 1882. Orig. Text in Hy. ws St. L, iL, ivy Vy Vig vii., with 1. 4, st. vil, changed from " And worthier Thee." The omitted st, tii. is:—
" He came in tongues of living flame com » subdue, All powerful as the wind He came As viewless too,"
In Spurgeon's O. 0. H. Bk, 1866, and some American collections, the text is tortured into c. M. 5]
Our eyes, great God, have seen Thy grace. J. Merrick. [Ps, tazav.] ist pub. in his Psalms Translated or Paraphrased in English Verse, 1765; aud, again, in the same work, with each phrase divided into atanzas for parochial use, by the Rev. W. D. Tatteraall, 1797. In Collyer's Coll., 1812, six stanzas were given as " Arise, great God, and let Thy grace." This was repeated in later hymn- and sometimes as, "Arise, O God, and let Thy grace." [s. J]
Our Father, throned in heaven, Thy name be praised. Bp. T, Ken. [The Lords Prayer.) Serer in his posthumous Hys. for olf thé Festivals of the Year, 1721; and, again, in the same, pub. by Pickering in 1868, ea Bp. Ken's Christian Year, &o., p. 284. It forms a part of the poem for the 15th 8. after Trinity, which is based upon St. Matt. vi, the chapter from which the Gospel of the day is taken. Although not in C. U. itis very concise and musical, aml is worthy of ara
