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Praise Ye
the Father
Frederick
Flemming |
The lyrics
for “Praise Ye the Father” were written by Elizabeth
Rundle Charles. Charles (1828 –1896)
was an English writer. She was born at Tavistock, Devon, the
daughter of John Rundle, MP. Some of her youthful poems won the
praise of Tennyson, who read them in manuscript. In 1851 she
married Andrew Paton Charles.
Charles's
best known book, written to order for an editor who wished for a
story about Martin Luther, The Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta
Family, was published in 1862, and was translated into most
of the European languages, into Arabic, and into many Indian
dialects. Mrs Charles wrote in all over fifty books, the
majority of a semi-religious character, as well as writing and
translating a number of hymns. She took an active part in the
work of various charitable institutions.
Her works include The Voice of Christian Life in Song; or,
Hymns and Hymn-writers of Many Lands and Ages (1859), The
Three Wakings, and Other Poems (1859), Wanderings over
Bible Lands and Seas (1862), The Early Dawn (1864),
Winifred Bertram and the World She Lived In (1866),
Poems (1867), The Draytons and the Davenants (1867),
Songs Old and New (1882), and Conquering and to
Conquer/The Diary of Brother Bartholomew. Our Seven Homes
(1896) is autobiographical. A number of her hymns appeared in
The Family Treasury, edited by William Arnot (1808–1875). |
The music was
composed by Frederick Ferdinand Flemming (1778-1813). Flemming studied
medicine at Wittenberg (1796-1800), Jena, Vienna and Trieste. He
practiced as a physician in Berlin until his death, but, musically, is
mainly remembered for his setting of Horace’s ode beginning "Integer
Vitae," from which the tune FLEMMING is adapted.
Lyrics by
Elizabeth Charles
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Praise ye the Father for His
loving-kindness,
tenderly caring for His erring children;
praise Him, ye angels; praise Him in the heavens;
praise to the Father!Praise
ye the Savior for His deep compassion,
graciously caring for His chosen people;
young men and maidens, ye old men and children,
praise to the Savior! |
Praise ye the Spirit, Comforter of
Israel,
sent from the Father and the Son to bless us;
praise to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!
Praise to the triune God! |
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