JESUS CHRIST >> GLORY & PRAISE
SDAH 238
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer’s ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.
Text
1
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer’s ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.
2
It makes the wounded spirit whole,
And calms the troubled breast;
“Tis manna to the hungry soul,
And to the weary, rest.
3
Dear name, the rock on which I build,
My shield and hiding place,
My never failing treasury, filled
With boundless stores of grace.
4
Jesus! my Shepherd, Guardian, Friend,
My Prophet, Priest, and King!
My Lord, my life, my way, my end!
Accept the praise I bring.
5
Weak is the effort of my heart,
And cold my warmest thought;
But when I see Thee as Thou art,
I’ll praise Thee as I ought.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) S.S. 1:3 (b) Prov 18:14 (c) Ps 3:3; Ps 32:7 (d) Ps 23:1; Jas 2:23; John 6:14; Heb 7:26; Matt 21:5; John 20:28
Author
John Newton (1725-1807)
Year Published
1779
Hymn Tune
ST. PETER
Metrical Number
C.M.
Composer
Alexander R. Reinagle (1799-1877)
Tune Source
1836
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Notes
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This hymn is one of the 280 hymns written by John Newton (1725-1807; see Biographies) for the Olney Hymns, 1779. It is entitled “Solomon’s Song, The Name of Jesus.” It is based on chapter 1, verse 3, of this poetic biblical book and contains seven stanzas.
ST. PETER was composed 1836 by Alexander Robert Reinagle and commemorates the church of St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, where he was organist from 1822 to 1856. Reinagle was of Austrian descent but born in Brighton, England, on August 21 1799. Both Reinagle’s father and grandfather were very musical, and he himself was a noted cellist and teacher of organ. He wrote instruction books for the violin and the cello. He died at Kidlington, a few miles north of Oxford, on April 6, 1877. The church where he was organist for so many years is now the library of St. Edmunds College, Oxford.
ST. PETER was composed particularly for a setting of Psalm 118 and appears in Reinagle’s Psalm Tunes for the Voice and the Pianoforte, c 1836. It was named ST. PETER in his collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, 1840. The soprano part is noteworthy for a descent of one complete octave, with some repeated notes, in the first two lines of the melody.
-from Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal by Wayne Hooper and Edward E. White
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