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There is a line, by us unseen

Author: Joseph A. Alexander Appears in 28 hymnals

HARVEY'S CHANT

Appears in 55 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William B. Bradbury Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 11111 71222 22233 Used With Text: There is a line by us unseen

AZMON

Appears in 1,077 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Carl Gotthelf; Mason Incipit: 51122 32123 34325 Used With Text: There is a line, by us unseen

WOODLAND

Appears in 128 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: N. D. Gould Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 13353 23235 51233 Used With Text: There Is a Line

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Author: J. Addison Alexander Hymnal: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #400 (1886) Lyrics: 1 There is a line by us unseen, That crosses every path, The hidden boundary between God's patience and his wrath. 2 O! where is this mysterious bourne By which our path is crossed, Beyond which God himself hath sworn That he who goes is lost? 3 How far may we go on in sin? How long will God forbear? Where does hope end? And where begin The confines of despair? 4 An answer from the skies is sent: "Ye that from God depart, While it is called to-day, repent, And harden not your heart." Topics: The Sinner Warning and Invitation Tune Title: HARVEY'S CHANT

There Is a Line

Author: J. A. Alexander Hymnal: Christ in Song #137 (1908) First Line: There is a line by us unseen Lyrics: 1 There is a line by us unseen, That crosses ev'ry path, The hidden boundary between, The hidden boundary between God's patience and his wrath. 2 O! where is this mysterious bourne By which our path is crossed, Beyond which God himself hath sworn, Beyond which God himself hath sworn That he who goes is lost? 3 How far may we go on in sin? How long will God forbear? Where does hope end? And where begin, Where does hope end? And where begin The confines of despair? 4 An answer from the skies is sent: "Ye that from God depart, While it is called today, repent, While it is called today, repent, And harden not your heart." Topics: Décision; Invitation and Repentance Decision Day Languages: English Tune Title: WOODLAND

There is a line, by us unseen

Hymnal: Songs for the Sabbath School and Vestry #S59 (1860)

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Joseph A. Alexander

1809 - 1860 Person Name: Joseph Addison Alexander Author of "There is a line, by us unseen" in The Otterbein Hymnal Alexander, Joseph Addison, D.D., brother of Dr. J. W. Alexander, and a minister of the Presbyterian Church, born in Philadelphia, April 24, 1809, graduated at Princeton, 1826, became Adjunct Professor of Latin, 1833, and Associate Professor of Biblical Literature, 1838, died at Princeton, Jan. 28, 1860. Dr. Alexander was a great Hebraist, and published Commentaries on Isaiah, the Psalms, &c. His poem, “The Doomed Man,” was written for, and first published in, the Sunday School Journal, Phila., April 5, 1837. It has striking merit, but moves in one of those doctrinal circles which hymns generally avoid. Parts of it are found as hymns in a few Calvinistic collections, as, "There is a time, we know not when," in the New York Church Praise Book, 1881, No. 288. This is sometimes given with the second stanza, "There is a line, by us unseen," as in Nason's Collection, and Robinson's Songs for the Sanctuary, 1865. Unknown to English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 39 (1907)

Nathaniel Colver

1794 - 1870 Person Name: Colver Author of "There is a line, by us unseen" in The Congregational Hymn Book Colver, Nathaniel, D.D., an eminent preacher and abolitionist, born at Orwell, Vermont, 1794, and entered the Baptist Ministry in 1836, becoming successively Pastor at Boston, Detroit, Cincinnati, and Chicago. After the war, in 1865, he founded the Colver Institute at Richmond, Virginia. He died Sept. 25, 1870. In 1848 he contributed 17 hymns to Banvard's Christian Melodist, Boston, U.S; Of these the best known are:—“Come, Lord, in mercy come again," Lent; and " Weep for the lost! thy Saviour wept" (Sympathy), as in the Baptist Praise Book, N. Y., 1871, &c. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ============================= Colver, Nathaniel. (Orwell, Vermont, May 10, 1794--September 25, 1870), Chicago, Illinois). Baptist. Granville College (Denison University) D.D. 1856. Pastorates at West Clarendon, Vermont, 1819-1821; Fort Covington, New York; Kingsbury, New York; Fort Ann, New York; Union Village, New York, 1834-1838; Holmesburgh, Pennsylvania, 1834; Tremont Temple, Boston, 1839-1852; South Abington, Massachusetts, 1852-1853; Detroit, Michigan, 1853-1856; Cincinnati, Ohio, 1856-1861; Chicago, Illinois, 1861. In 1865, he founded the Colver Institute, which survives in the theology department of Virginia Union University at Richmond, Virginia; became president of the Freedman's Institute, Richmond, Virginia, 1867-1870. He was a founder of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He was very active in anti-masonic, anti-slavery, and temperance movements. He authored the hymn "While the earth is clad in darkness," which was the first hymn sung at his installation in Boston, September 15, 1839. He also wrote "Great God, before thy revered name, Within these ransomed walls we bow," which was sung at the dedication of Tremont Temple (formerly Tremont Theatre) on December 7, 1843. He is the author of the Lenten hymn, "Come, Lord, in mercy come again, with thy converting power," which, along with sixteen other of his hymns, appeared in the Christian Melodist which was compiled by Joseph Banvard in 1848. He contributed five hymns to Ocean Melodies (1849), a collection of hymns compiled by Phineas Stowe for seamen. He also wrote the hymn "Weep for the lost! thy Savior wept O'er Salem's hapless doom" which appeared in the Baptist Praise Book in 1871. See J. A. Smith, Memoir of Rev. Nathaniel Colver, D.D. (1873). --Scotty Wayne Gray, DNAH Archives

William B. Bradbury

1816 - 1868 Composer of "HARVEY'S CHANT" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book William Batchelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life. John Perry

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