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- Title Page
- PREFACE.
- |A PREFACE TO ALL GOOD HYMN-BOOKS.|
- CHAPTER I. THE EARLY DAWN OF GERMAN SACRED POETRY AND SONG. A. D. 800-900
- Ambrosian Church Music
- Gregorian Church Music
- A Benedictine Monastery
- Notker's Sequences
- The Heliand
- Otfried of Weissenburg
- MYSTICE DE REVERSIONE MAGORUM AD PATRIAM.
- CHAPTER II. A LONG TWILIGHT. A.D. 900-1100.
- Early Hymns
- ST. PETER.
- PRAYER.
- ANOTHER PRAYER (Ninth Century).
- CHAPTER III. THE MORNING. A.D. 1100-1250
- German Sequences
- Another |Leich| or |Sequence| of his, which became extremely popular, is
- Another of his poems is called
- The Minne-Singers
- THE BEAUTY OF THIS WORLD.
- But in the list we also find the greatest of the knightly Minne-singers, Hartmann von der Aue, Reinmar von Hagenau, Gottfried von Strasburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and the noble singer Walther von der Vogelweide.
- Another crusading song, which was very widely used on pilgrimages in these days, was sung to a melody which has been preserved to the present time, by its connexion with one of Luther's hymns; it is this:--
- Another crusader and Minne-singer of those days, Sir Reinmar of Hagenau, gives us a glimpse of the struggle that must have gone on in many minds between the love of pleasure and the self-control that befitted a soldier of the Cross, a struggle of which we
- A little anonymous poem of the same date, the last verse of which appears, from the metre, to be incomplete, surprises us by what seems to us the modern tone of its tender and passionate
- Walter von der Vogelweide
- So die bluomen uz dem grase dringent
- MAY MIRACLES
- But others treat of higher and more serious themes, and show us a man deeply engaged in the political and religious life of his day. He was a warm lover of his country, but he does not hesitate to rebuke and satirize his countrymen, whether clergy or lait
- THE PRAISE OF GERMANY.
- A MORNING PRAYER.
- EQUALITY BEFORE GOD.
- REPENTANCE.
- IN THE HOLY LAND.
- The Minne-songs
- CHAPTER IV. DARK TIMES AND BRIGHT TIMES. A.D.1253-1500
- Tauler
- WHAT I MUST DO.
- ONLY JESUS.
- The Master-Singers
- DEATH WILL CONQUER.
- NO MORE DESPAIR.
- The Drama
- CHRISTMAS CAROL
- Another Christmas carol of this date is the following on
- A favourite song, or we might almost call it a ballad for Easter, was this one:--
- Easter Sequence
- A sequence found about the same date is called in old manuscripts
- We have a testimony to the use of Easter hymns in church in the following poem by Conrad von Queinfurt, belonging to the fourteenth century (he died in 1382 in Silesia), which is quite in the style of the Minne-singers both in thought and the carefully va
- Many also of the popular songs were translated
- Henry of Loufenburg
- HOME-SICKNESS.
- Another tenderly-conceived little poem of his is this:--
- Henry of Loufenburg also wrote and widely introduced the use of many hymns in mixed Latin and German. Verses of this kind had long been a favourite amusement among the monks
- Earliest Hymn-Books
- Hymns to the Virgin
- CHAPTER V. LUTHER AND HIS FRIENDS. A.D. 1500-1580.
- Ulrich von Hutten
- ULRICH VON HUTTEN'S SONG.
- The Reformation
- Martin Luther
- THE STRONGHOLD
- Still more popular in its own day was the second hymn that Luther ever wrote; no doubt from its containing in short compass a complete epitome
- We add Luther's version of the Song of Simeon:--
- Justus Jonas
- PSALM CXXIV.
- Paul Eber
- DEATH IN THE LORD.
- CHAPTER VI. HYMNS OF THE REFORMATION. A.D. 1520-1600.
- Paul Speratus
- Wie's Gott gefällt, gefällt's mir auch
- Or take the following hymn, which surely embodies a noble conception of the duty and the aspirations of a Christian sovereign, and was composed by the prince whose name it bears.
- Hans Sachs
- A FAIR MELODY: TO BE SUNG BY GOOD CHRISTIANS.
- As this poem makes us understand what many men must have felt when the Gospel was once more made accessible to them in their own language
- Bohemian Brethren
- AN ANTIPHON ON THE PRAISE OF GOD.
- The next is a
- The last is one of a class of hymns for which they are celebrated--morning and evening hymns.
- Johann Matthesius
- Nicolas Hermann
- HYMN FOR THE DYING.
- And of Matthesius we give this Miner's Song:
- CHAPTER VII. AN INTERVAL. A.D. 1560-1616.
- Bartholomew Ringwaldt
- PENITENCE.
- Nicholas Selnecker
- EVENING-TIDE.
- For his own daily prayer he wrote this:--
- Louis Helmboldt
- THE TRUE CHRISTIAN'S VADE-MECUM.
- Weingartner
- CONSOLATION.
- A THANKSGIVING.
- Philip Nicolai
- A SPIRITUAL BRIDAL SONG OF THE BELIEVING SOUL, CONCERNING HER HEAVENLY BRIDEGROOM.
- Church Music
- CHAPTER VIII. THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. A.D. 1618-1650.
- Martin Opitz
- MORNING HYMN.
- Paul Flemming
- The following little poem is inscribed
- SO HATH GOD LOVED THE WORLD.
- Andreas Gryphius
- PASSING AWAY.
- SONNET.
- Hymn Writers
- PRAISE.
- Martin Rinkart
- The Königsberg Circle
- Heinrich Albert
- Simon Dach
- HEAVEN.
- Robert Roberthin
- MAY-TIME IN WAR.
- Johann von Rist
- EASTER EVE.
- As many hymns of Rist's are accessible to the English reader, we choose one that is less known, but that strongly illustrates his character.
- Johann Heermann
- A SONG OF TEARS.
- A SONG OF COMFORT.
- In 1638 Heermann's health became so much worse that he was obliged to relinquish his charge at Köben altogether
- Du süsser Jesu Christ
- IN BODILY PAIN.
- IN TEMPTATION.
- AT THE APPROACH OF DEATH.
- CHAPTER IX. PAUL GERHARDT AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES. A.D. 1620-1680. cPaul Gerhardt
- THE HOPE OF THE CONTRITE.
- THE TRUST OF THE TRIED.
- THE MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN HEARTS.
- Electress Louisa
- PENITENCE.
- George Neumarck
- Anton Ulrich
- PATIENCE AND HUMILITY.
- Albinus
- Johann Frank
- TO THE SAVIOUR.
- CHAPTER X. THE NEW SCHOOL. A.D. 1635-1700.
- Friedrich von Logau
- RETRIBUTION.
- EPITAPH ON HIS WIFE.
- Johann Valentin Andrea
- FORGOTTEN LOVE.
- Among the leaders of this didactic school may be mentioned a whole family of the name of Olearius, who throughout this century were clergymen and hymn-writers, and the last of whom publishcd, in 1707, one of the earliest works on German hymnology. In the
- Friedrich von Spee
- A LOVE-SONG OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, IN EARLY SUMMERTIDE.
- Johann Scheffler (Angelus Silesius)
- THE HIGHEST SEEKS THE LOWEST.
- A SONG AT DAY-BREAK.
- Aphorisms
- The Second Silesian School
- AGAINST THE LUST OF THE WORLD.
- WHY MY SOUL IS GLAD.
- CHAPTER XI. THE PIETISTS. A.D. 1660-1750.
- Philip Jacob Spener
- August Herrmann Franke
- Freylinghausen
- JESUS IS ALL IN ALL.
- QUIETNESS OF HEART.
- Later Pietists
- Carl Heinrich von Bogatsky
- THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
- Benjamin Schmolck
- Wolfgang Christoph Dessler
- A SONG OF THE CROSS.
- Albert Bengel
- Philip Frederick Hiller
- THE GROUND OF ALL THINGS.
- HE MAKETH ALL OUR BED IN OUR SICKNESS.
- Joachim Neander
- SONG OF SUMMER.
- CHAPTER XII. THE MYSTICS AND SEPARATISTS. A.D. 1690-1760.
- Gottfried Arnold
- THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
- LIFE'S VOYAGE
- TRUTH.
- Gerhard Tersteegen
- Jesu, mein Erbarmer, höre
- THE MOTE IN THE SUNBEAM.
- WITHIN AND WITHOUT.
- Hinein, hinein
- AT EVENING.
- THE CROSS.
- Nein, das Kreuz hat keine Last
- THE TIRED CHILD.
- The Moravians
- FOLLOWING CHRIST.
- THE KING'S FAVOURITES.
- Albertini
- THE VIRGIN'S LAMP.
- CHAPTER XIII. MODERN TIMES. 1750-1850.
- Roman Catholic Hymns
- Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
- THE SOLACE OF THE LIFE TO COME.
- Cramer
- THE DUTY OF THE SCHOLAR.
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
- THE VISION OF GOD.
- PSALM.
- The following hymn is very commonly used at funerals or at Easter services:--
- Modern Hymns
- Friedrich Rückert
- MIDNIGHT.
- BETHLEHEM AND CALVARY.
- THE END.
- Subject Index