Welcome to the 153rd Old Fashioned Sunday Hymn Sing!
I miss the old hymns that I remember from my childhood - there were no drums, no electric guitar and no mind numbing beat. It was just voices and maybe a piano or an organ. The choir led the congregation in singing - and the words of these hymns are poetic. I realize that there is a need for the modern "seeker oriented" worship music - but it is also necessary to have deeper songs (no offense intended to anyone who prefers the newer church songs).
I miss the old hymns that I remember from my childhood - there were no drums, no electric guitar and no mind numbing beat. It was just voices and maybe a piano or an organ. The choir led the congregation in singing - and the words of these hymns are poetic. I realize that there is a need for the modern "seeker oriented" worship music - but it is also necessary to have deeper songs (no offense intended to anyone who prefers the newer church songs).
I decided to have an "Old Fashion Sunday Hymn Sing" once a month on this blog.
I personally do NOT have a great singing voice - I used to play the guitar & piano but my voice is NOT an instrument. That's the great thing about this digital hymn sing, you can warble along without being embarrassed or without offending anyone else.
The hymns that we will be studying are taken from an old hymnal from a Baptist church that is no longer in existence - "The North American Hymnal" published in 1956 by "THE ROGER WILLIAMS PRESS"
I will also try to find a version of the featured hymn on "YouTube" to share with you each month.
Today's featured hymn is "Master, the Tempest Is Raging" and the author is Mary A. Baker. This author is special to me because she has a link to Michigan. She was born in the state of New York but then had to move to Michigan when her mom remarried. Mary's father passed away when Mary was only 7 years leaving her mom a single mom with three young children. Mary's mom was again widowed when her second husband passed away and Mary's mom was then a single mother of five children. When her mom married a third time, Mary and her sister stayed in Kalamazoo, Michigan while her mom and siblings moved back to New York. Mary never married but she eventually moved to Chicago and she was known for active work in the "temperance cause" and for her hymns.
click HERE to view "By Your Faith #2 - Ye of Little Faith"
I have included two videos of this hymn (after the lyrics below). The second video is an a cappella version of this song.
Enjoy!
Turn with me to number 328 in your hymnals and let's sing:
Master, the Tempest Is Raging
written by Mary A. Baker (1832-1925) & composed by H. R. Palmer (1837-1907)
1.Master, the tempest is raging! The billows are tossing high! The sky is o'er shadowed with blackness, No shelter or help is nigh; "Carest Thou not that we perish?" How canst Thou lie asleep, When each moment so madly is threat'ning A grave in the angry deep?
CHORUS
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2. Master, with anguish of spirit I bow in my grief today; The depths of my sad heart are troubled; O waken and save, I pray! Torrents of sin and of anguish Sweep o'er my sinking soul! And I perish! I perish, dear Master; O hasten, and take control!
CHORUS
3. Master, the terror is over, The elements sweetly rest; Earth's sun in the calm lake is mirrored, And heaven's within my breast. Linger, O blessed Redeemer, Leave me alone no more; And with joy I shall make the blest harbor, And rest on the blissful shore.
CHORUS
"The winds and the waves shall obey Thy will. Peace.....be still!"
Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea, Or demons, or men, or whatever it be, No water
can swallow the ship where lies The Master of ocean and earth and skies; They all shall sweetly obey
Thy will; Peace, be still! Peace, be still! They all shall sweetly obey Thy will,
Peace, peace, be still!
A special thanks to "Acapeldridge" for sharing this with us!
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