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Today your mercy calls us

Author: Oswald Allen 1810-78 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 94 hymnals Topics: The Gospel Invitation and Warning Scripture: Luke 15:2 Used With Tune: DAY OF REST

Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 19 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Friedrich K. Anthes, 1812-after 1857 Tune Sources: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 (Setting) Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51712 31164 3215 Used With Text: Today Your Mercy Calls Us

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Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 382 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Arthur Henry Mann, 1850- Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 33321 17544 32325 Used With Text: To-day Thy mercy calls us

HOMELAND

Appears in 141 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Sir Arthur S. Sullivan, 1842-1900 Incipit: 13366 55431 17113 Used With Text: Today Thy mercy calls us

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Today Thy Mercy Calls Me

Author: Oswald Allen Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6849 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: 1. Today Thy mercy calls me to wash away my sin; However great my trespass, whate’er I may have been; However long from mercy I may have turned away, Thy blood, O Christ, can cleanse me, and make me white today. 2. Today Thy gate is open, and all who enter in Shall find a Father’s welcome, and pardon for their sin; The past shall be forgotten, a present joy be given; A future grace be promised, a glorious crown in Heav’n. 3. Today the Father calls me, the Holy Spirit waits, The blessèd angels gather around the heav’nly gates; No question will be asked me, how often I have come; Although I oft have wandered, it is my Father’s home. 4. O all embracing mercy, thou ever open door, What shall I do without thee when heart and eyes run o’er? When all things seem against me, to drive me to despair, I know one gate is open, one ear will hear my prayer. Languages: English Tune Title: BLAIRGOWRIE

To-day Thy Mercy Calls Me

Author: Oswald Allen Hymnal: Victorious Life Hymns #173 (1919) First Line: Today Thy mercy calls me Topics: Aspiration; Evangelism; Invitation Tune Title: [Today Thy mercy calls me]

Today Thy Mercy Calls Me

Author: Oswald Allen Hymnal: Our Song Book #72 (1890) First Line: Today Thy mercy calls us Languages: English Tune Title: [Today Thy mercy calls us]

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Arthur Sullivan

1842 - 1900 Person Name: Sir Arthur S. Sullivan, 1842-1900 Composer of "HOMELAND" in Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas. Bert Polman

John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Composer of "BLAIRGOWRIE" in The Cyber Hymnal As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman