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Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Handbook
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150 Psalms of David, Edinburgh, 1615
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A Student’s Hymnal, 1923
setting: 103. ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVÖGELEIN
Aaberg, Jens Christian, 1877-1970
Aaberg, author of Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark, 1945, and editor of Favored Hymns and Songs, 1961, translated some eighty hymns and songs from Danishand served on the committees which compiled the American Lutheran Hymnal, 1930; the Hymnal for Church and Home, 1927; the Junior Hymnal for Church and Home, 1932; and the revised Hymnal for Church and Home, 1928. Born November 8, 1877, in Moberg on the West coastof Denmark, he came to the United States in 1901. He went to Minneapolis,Minnesota, to join his brother who was then studying for the ministry atAugsburg College and Seminary. After attending St. Ansgar’s College, andGrand View College and Seminary in Des Moin
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My hymn this week, ‘Come, we that love the Lord’, was originally entitled ‘Heavenly Joy on Earth’. This great hymn does indeed celebrate the joy of the Christian life here and now on this earth, in which we experience ‘a thousand sacred sweets’ even before we reach ‘the heavenly fields, / Or walk the golden streets’. The line ‘marching through Immanuel’s ground’ in the magnificent final verse is an allusion to Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, where the pilgrims pass through ‘Immanuel’s Land’, a place of refreshment among ‘Delectable Mountains’, before, eventually, they enter the Celestial City. The verse also echoes Isaiah 35:10, ‘the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away’. The author of ‘Come, we that love the Lord’ was Isaac Watts, a Congregational minister and one of the greatest of all English hymn-writers. First published in his collectio
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Samuel Gottlieb Bürde
1753 - 1831Topics: Christian Life and Hope The Consummation: Eternity; Christian Life and Hope The Consummation: EternityAuthor of "When the Lord recalls the banished" in Evangelical Lutheran hymnalBürde, Samuel Gottlieb, was born Dec. 7, 1753, at Bresiau, where his father was keeper of St. Barbara's Church. After studying law at the University of Halle, he was (1776-78) tutor and superintendent of a charity school at Breslau. He then became private secretary to the Cabinet minister von Haugwitz, was for two years employed in the department of Forestry, and after being for some time secre¬tary to the department of Finance at Breslau, was appointed member of the Aulic Council and Director of Chancery at Berlin, where he d. April 28, 1831 (Koch, vi. 319-322; Allg. Deutsche Biographie, iii. 581-82. Fischer, ii. 432, says he died at Breslau). As a hymn-writer he was by some of his contempo¬raries reckoned nearly equal to Gellert, b