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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 1st May 1888, Edition 1 of 1, Page 447

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      Hymnology. ! ; T D J Irected * When J 3 ...

      ¦ I than to any of these is due to Latin hymnology I as the origin of many of our best hymns .

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      rose to full spiritual fervour in the eighth —^ and I ninth centuries . Then were laid the foundation stones for the future reputation of such

      men as St . Peter Damian , St . Bernard of Clairvaux ; his uncanonised namesake ,

      Bernard , the monk of Cluny ; Hildebert , Arch-I bishop of Tours ; St . Thomas Aquinas , and

      I about Adam this of St period . Victor but . their Many names others are , too unf , wrote ortunately lost to us , through i not having pb BaaBaBi been

      ^^^^^^ H ^ M — — r — ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ BBfc ^^^ ¦ — ¦ " — ^^ p- - ^ " ^^™ - ^ ar ^ B" ap -bpjp B ^^^ h p ^ bp— ^ M ^ ^^^ F bbb * bbb > preserved attached to the hymns in the Church _ I ^_^_ service - — . Bern - ard ^^^ - _ - ^_ of - _ - _ Cluny p- ~_ „ _ wrote v , —B * . ^^ p- ^^ . ^^ pr ^ a ^ tbb long ^ gat - * B ^ BBata ^ bBBj ^ k Latin BBM ^ Bfl ^ p- ^ P ^ P ^ Bb > BB »^ bI

      I rhymed poem ' De Confcemptu Mundi' ( On the HH I Contempt K of — ¦ — — the - _^ - ¦ _ b— World - - — " — — ^ Pf ) m . W This BBBBB > ^ BIBB- PBBp BBBB- Dr sH ^^ B' b ^) . V J ~ ~ . V M ^ BbpBJb ^ Hb . . V

      I Neale translated in 1851 under the title of the HH I ^ K * Rhym _ of - Bernard — — ~ - — - of —— Cluny i - ¦—— — — bb ^ b * m / b ¦ The -b ^^ b ^ bb » bj ^ - well w bjb- bm ^ pbi -known bbb ^ b «^|^ ~| | ~ v b | bbb » bb ^

      I hymns commencing c Brief life is here our HHH I portion » ^ - ' and ~~ ~ — ' Jerusalem —<^ ¦ BB BB * IB B- — ' — B-B B . -BBBiBBF the BB . bBBB * ^ B- Golden BbpB-b * **» Bp «¦ V ^ aBBfe *« - ^ fc ^ h HL ' ^ are ^ f ^ BB > B ^ g ^ ex B ^^ ^ B ^ b - Hhh ¦ ¦ jb _ bb b ^ b » b > ^ b « b . » ~_~ _ ,

      I I tracts ' To thee from O the dear Rhym dear , country and if we ' proceeds mistake from not ,

      I the same , W source ^— ^^ ™^ . ^ ¦ ^^ ^^ ™^ St ^ . Bernard ' — ^^^— ^^ v ^— ^^^ w , h ^ n ^ of ^^^ ~ |~ ~^^ Clairvaux ^ hl ^ ^ ta ^^ ^ b ^ ' ^ fc ^^^ ^^^ ^ H ^«^ ^^ J ^ ^^ I was the author of the mediaeval hymn on the

      I * Name of Jesus . ' This was translated by Edward I Caswall , at one time an English clergyman ,

      I I but but afterwards atterwards a a Koman Roman UathoJic Catholic . . The Th « hymn hvmn I commences , ' Jesu ! the very thought of Thee . ' I In the original it contains fifty stanzasthe

      majority of which in the Church hymnal , have been omittedfor reasons which will be obvious .

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      fashion that set in for imitations of Horace and his contemporariesand b in this the h-

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      tion this decline was arrested . In shaking off ¦ the Papal yok W ^^ I e ~^ B ^ Germany ^^ BB' * TB- ^^^ BBB—^^ BBBBi I Bl ^^ BBBBP H likewise fl ^ Bl BB ^ ^^ fe ^ BBP B ^^ p fj B | , ^ BB B ^ gT ^ BB ^ ^ abandoned BB ^ B * f ^ *^^^^ fl ^^ , " 1 ^ ^ BP ^ BbI ~ ~ B . BB flBBk ^ BBflT ^ BB ^^ B |

      the Roman Latin hymns , but , unlike the English Reformers ~—~ - i Luther h h did not Bk rest BbbB inactive BBt BBi BBBB BbBF

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      Luther to the seventeenth century Paul Eber and Nicholas Hermann were the

      onlmeruor-B B Bfe BIBBBBB k y k able ^^ writers > . Then ^^^ ^ m came the ^ m . Thirty __ ^ Years ^^_ —*~ ' War with its burden of calamity and affliction

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      surrounded it . The best-known hymn-writers of Germany during the seventeenth century are

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      tury , Tersteegen , Christian Gellert , and Franck . The reformation in this country was

      different . Taking its rise in a higher class of societynothing more was done for the people

      than to , translate the prayers and lessons into English . The Latin hymns were taken away

      entirely . No songs of praise were substituted in their stead . The popular element in public

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      the Psalms of David by Sternhold , Hopkins ,

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      was seized with the general enthusiasm , and on his death it was found that he hadVsersified

      the whole Psalter . Others who furnished new versions Bf ^^^ BVfe ^^^ BffflB ~ ^ »« WtaT may ^^ B ^ kl ^ BBj ^ B ^ BJ W be BBB ^ BB ^ BBT mentioned BBtB ^ B . - ^^ BBBB BBBT BBBB "B ^ b * - BBBB bBT ^ BBV Bi BB in BBBBBIBBi Sir - -BBBT —— — Phili ^— — p B | Sidney - ^ m

      about and his 1580 sister —Francis BbTBJbb , the Countess Rouse in BBBBBPB of 164 BBBBBB Pembroke 1 Willi am

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      Richard Blackmore , in 1721 ; but this , list by no means BBb ^ B > exhausts the BBBi -B . B * number BBBP" —BBi ^—^ of versifiers .

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      contributed 600 ; Dr . Doddridge , the " two Battys volume MT ^ l ^ , Cennick With JB » , the and B B commencement others BBB « BB B B- BB -BB- BBBB each B-- -BF ¦— - ¦ produced of the a

      - ^ y ^ _ B ^ ^•^ . ™ T " ^ BV * Bp BJ ^^ f ^^ Bp . BP- V " **^ ^ * ' - — ~ — present century the _ Methodist . ^_ ^_ BB . BBh * revival Bi « B had ^ ^ died 1 *^ came ramft out , and another f .. nnt for h p , r a movement movement time there but but was on on a this this lull . occasion occasion Then ,,

      the agitation proceeded , from the Church of ¦ Bishop England Heber , and BBb Dean bBBBBBF the -BBF Mil princi man pal Sir versifiers Robert Gran were t

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      writers of original hymns—Horatius Bonar , Frances CFAlexander Ridley Havergal Rev . S . , J Bari . Stone ng-Gould and , others Mrs .

      . . , , —but the space at our disposal precludes this _/___ L M *_ F bL idea ^^ fc V ^ ^«»« . The - —»— - —• - ~ ^ b' subject ~—» ~ - ~»• " -- ' I ~ -- * ~ " of "—¦ ' ~~ hymnology _/ — — ~*~| »^ , yas we

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      said , and certainly not a twentieth of what we ought to have said .

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 1, 1888, page 447, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01051888/page/9/