Archive for July 2013
Jason Priestley and Tanya Allen in Fancy Dancing (2002)
(The image is a screen cap.)
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This post should simplify then process of navigating my guide to selected movies with Tanya Allen in them.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JULY 16, 2013 COMMON ERA
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Behind the Lines, a.k.a. Regeneration (1997)
https://neatnik2009.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/behind-the-lines-a-k-a-regeneration-1997/
White Lies (1998)
https://neatnik2009.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/white-lies-1998/
Fancy Dancing (2002):
https://neatnik2009.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/fancy-dancing-2002/
Lyddie (1996):
https://neatnik2009.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/lyddie-1996/
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Above: London Bridge, Between 1890 and 1900
Image Published by Detroit Publishing Company, 1905
Image Source = Library of Congress
Reproduction Number = LC-DIG-ppmsc-08569
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JEMIMA THOMPSON LUKE (AUGUST 19, 1813-FEBRUARY 2, 1906)
English Congregationalist Hymn Writer
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JAMES EDMESTON (SEPTEMBER 10, 1791-JANUARY 7, 1867)
Anglican Hymn Writer
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The Reverend Thomas Thompson (1785-1865) was an English Congregationalist minister at Blagdon. He was also the husband of Elizabeth Pinckney (died in 1837), the father of Jemima Thompson Luke (1813-1906), and a cofounder of the British and Foreign Sailor’s Society (in 1818). Once Thompson held a contest for fifty simple hymns. The winner of the 20-pound prize was was James Edmeston (1791-1867), who won for his Cottage Minstrel (1821).
Edmeston, born in Wapping, London, England, came from a Nonconformist family yet converted to The Church of England, in which he was active. He, by profession a prominent architect and surveyor, liked children, especially orphans. Thus he visited the London Orphan Asylum, founded by Andrew Reed (https://neatnik2009.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/feast-of-andrew-reed-february-28/) in 1813, frequently. Edmeston also wrote twelve volumes, mostly of religious poetry. Two of the books were Sacred Lyrics (1821) (Volumes I, II, and III), Sacred Poetry (1848), and Infant Breathings. For many years he wrote a hymn per week for use in family devotions. Edmeston wrote more than 2,000 hymns. A few of them are available at my GATHERED PRAYERS.
He died at Homerton, Surrey, in 1867.
Jemima Thompson Luke (1813-1906) wanted to become a missionary to India, but her health prevented that from becoming reality. So she supported foreign missions throughout her life and edited a missionary magazine for children instead. She, who began to submit poems to magazines at age thirteen, wrote books including The Female Jesuit and its Sequel, an extended and hysterical anti-Roman Catholic rant, as well as The Broad Way and the Narrow Way. She married the Reverend Samuel Luke (1809-1868), a Congregationalist minister in 1843. Jemima died on the Isle of Wight in 1906, after having raised children and done much to bring glory to God.
Among her hymns was “I Think, When I Read That Sweet Story of Old” (1841):
I think, when I read that sweet story of old,
When Jesus was here among men,
How He called little children as lambs to His fold,
I should like to have been with them then;
I wish that His hand had been placed on my head,
That His arm had been His kind look when He said,
“Let the little ones come unto Me.”
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Yet still to His footstool in prayer I may go,
And ask for a share in His love;
And, if I now earnestly seek Him below,
I shall see Him and hear Him above,
In that beautiful place He is gone to prepare
For all who are washed and forgiven;
And many dear children are gathering there,
For of such is the Kingdom of heaven.
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But thousands and thousands, who wander and fall,
Never heard of that heavenly home;
I should like them to know there is room for them all,
And that Jesus has bid them to come.
I long for the joy of that glorious time,
The sweetest and brightest and best,
When the dear little children of every clime
Shall crowd to His arms and be blest.
Both James Edmeston and Jemima Thompson Luke acted on their concern for others, for the glory of God.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JULY 10, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF JOHANN SCHEFFLER, ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST, POET, AND HYMN WRITER
THE FEAST OF GEORG NEUMARK, GERMAN LUTHERAN POET AND HYMN WRITER
THE FEAST OF JOHN HINES, PRESIDING BISHOP OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
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Dear God of beauty,
you have granted literary ability and spiritual sensitivity to
Jemima Thompson Luke, James Edmeston, and others, who have composed hymn texts.
May we, as you guide us,
find worthy hymn texts to be icons,
through which we see you.
In the Name of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 44:1-3a, 5-15
Psalm 147
Revelation 5:11-14
Luke 2:8-20
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
APRIL 20, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF SAINTS AMATOR OF AUXERRE AND GERMANUS OF AUXERRE, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS; SAINT MAMERTINUS OF AUXERRE, ROMAN CATHOLIC ABBOT; AND SAINT MARCIAN OF AUXERRE, ROMAN CATHOLIC MONK
THE FEAST OF JOHANNES BUGENHAGEN, GERMAN LUTHERAN PASTOR
THE FEAST OF SAINT MARCELLINUS OF EMBRUN, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP
THE FEAST OF OLAVUS AND LAURENTIUS PETRI, RENEWERS OF THE CHURCH
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Revised on December 9, 2016
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Above: University of Copenhagen
Photograph Undated
Image Source = Library of Congress
Reproduction Number = LC-DIG-ggbain-30701
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BERNHARDT SEVERIN INGEMANN (MAY 28, 1789-FEBRUARY 24, 1862)
Danish Lutheran Author and Hymn Writer
Bernhardt Severin Ingemann, born on Falster Island, in the Baltic Sea, was the son of the local Lutheran (Church of Denmark) minister. Our saint survived some traumatic early experiences. He, a student at the University of Copenhagen starting in 1806, defended the city against the British in 1807. His apartment (and his early poetic works) burned in the foreign attack. Two years later an epidemic claimed his mother, three brothers, and a niece. These experiences influenced much of his work and contributed to the fact that
Ingemann was a sensitive, soft-spoken man with few friends.
–Marilyn Kay Stalken, Hymnal Companion to the Lutheran Book of Worship (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1981, page 406)
Ingemann, engaged to Lucie Madie, his future wife, in 1812, got on with life. He completed his education at the University of Copenhagen in 1813 and became a tutor at Walkendorf’s Collegium. His published works earned him sufficient public respect that, in 1817-1819, the Danish government sponsored him to travel and study in Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland. In 1822 he became Professor of Literature at the Academy of Soro, Zeeland.
Our saint’s collected works filled thirty-four volumes. He was the second most popular author of Danish children’s stories behind his good friend, Hans Christian Andersen. Ingemann, a prolific author of poems, novels, and historical epics which contributed greatly to Danish nationalism, prepared the 1855 psalter for the Church of Denmark.
Among the hymns Ingemann composed was the following, translated by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1867 and 1875:
Through the night of doubt and sorrow
Onward goes the pilgrim’s hand,
Singing songs of expectation,
Marching to the promised land;
Clear before as through the darkness
Gleams and burns the guiding light;
Brother clasps the hand of brother,
Stepping fearless through the night.
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One the light of God’s own presence
O’er His ransomed people shed,
Chasing for the gloom and terror,
Brightening all the path we tread;
One the object of our journey,
One the faith which never tires,
One the earnest looking forward,
One the hope our God inspires.
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One the strain that lips of thousands
Lift as from the heart of one,
One the conflict, one the peril,
One the march in God begun;
One the gladness of rejoicing
On the far eternal shore,
Where the One Almighty Father
Reigns in love forevermore.
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Onward, therefore, pilgrim brothers,
Onward, with the cross our aid;
Bear its shame, and fight its battle,
Till we rest beneath its shade;
Soon shall come the great awaking,
Soon the rending of the tomb ,
Then the scattering of all shadows
And the end of toil and gloom.
The analysis of the analysis of the hymn, according to William Chalmers Covert and Calvin Weiss Laufer, Handbook to The Hymnal (Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, 1935), follows:
The strength of the lines even in translation bears witness to the author’s virile and inclusive faith.
–page 366
Ingemann understood well that it is easy to have deep faith during good times but that, when the chips are down, the true test of faith occurs. He had such faith.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JULY 10, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF JOHANN SCHEFFLER, ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST, POET, AND HYMN WRITER
THE FEAST OF GEORG NEUMARK, GERMAN LUTHERAN POET AND HYMN WRITER
THE FEAST OF JOHN HINES, PRESIDING BISHOP OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
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Almighty God, beautiful in majesty, majestic in holiness:
You have shown us the splendor of creation in the work of your servant Bernhardt Severin Ingemann.
Teach us to drive from the world all chaos and disorder, that our eyes may behold your glory,
and that at last everyone may know the inexhaustible richness of your new creation in Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Isaiah 28:5-6 or Hosea 14:5-8 or 2 Chronicles 20:20-21
Psalm 96
Philippians 4:8-9 or Ephesians 5:18b-20
Matthew 13:44-52
–Adapted from Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006), page 61
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Revised on December 9, 2016
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Above: New York Harbor, 1840
Image Source = Library of Congress
Reproduction Number = LC-DIG-ppmsca-22951
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EDWARD HOPPER (FEBRUARY 17, 1818-APRIL 23, 1888)
U.S. Presbyterian Minister and Hymn Writer
Edward Hopper was born in the City of New York, where he lived for all but a few years and where he died. He graduated from New York University in 1839 then Union Theological Seminary three years later. He, ordained in 1842, served at Greenville, New York; then at Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York; then finally at New York City, where he was pastor of the Church of the Land and the Sea, in the harbor area. There, at his longest pastorate, our saint ministered to many people, including a large number of sailors.
Our saint’s character was humble. He wrote hymns yet permitted their publication only under a pen name or anonymously. Among these hymns was “Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me“, which debuted in The Sailor’s Magazine (New York, 1871) then appeared in The Baptist Praise Book (1871), with no author listed for this hymn.
Hopper died in his study as he wrote religious poetry.
Edward Hopper seems like an obvious saint to me. The Anglican standard that history makes saints defines Hopper as one.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JULY 10, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF JOHANN SCHEFFLER, ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST, POET, AND HYMN WRITER
THE FEAST OF GEORG NEUMARK, GERMAN LUTHERAN POET AND HYMN WRITER
THE FEAST OF JOHN HINES, PRESIDING BISHOP OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
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Heavenly Father, shepherd of your people,
we thank you for your servant Edward Hopper,
who was faithful in the care and nurture of your flock.
We pray that, following his example and the teaching of his holy life,
we may by your grace attain our full maturity in Christ,
through the same Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Ezekiel 34:11-16 or Acts 20:17-35
Psalm 84
1 Peter 5:1-4 or Ephesians 3:14-21
John 21:15-17 or Matthew 24:42-47
–Adapted from Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006), page 60
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Revised on December 9, 2016
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Above: Ruins of Melrose Abbey, Between 1860 and 1890
Image Source = Library of Congress
Reproduction Number = LC-USZ62-109098
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ELIZABETH CECILIA CLEPHANE (JUNE 18, 1830-FEBRUARY 19, 1869)
Scottish Presbyterian Philanthropist and Hymn Writer
Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane and her two sisters were daughters of the Sheriff of Fife and Kinross. After he died they left Edinburgh, Scotland, for Ormiston, East Lothian, then for Melrose, where our saint settled. The sisters, members of the Free Church of Scotland, devoted themselves to philanthropy in the community. Our saint, although ill for most of her short life, was, according to James Moffatt:
…gentle and retiring in disposition, and generous to a degree; she was known as “the Sunbeam” among the poor and suffering in Melrose. The sisters spent all their income each year, giving what was not needed for their maintenance to charity.
—Handbook to The Church Hymnary, Revised Edition (London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1927, page 299)
Our saint published some of her hymns in periodicals, such as The Children’s Hour. Others appeared in print posthumously. Among her hymns was “Beneath the Cross of Jesus.”
Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane could have focused on her own problems to the exclusion of those of others. Yet she walked a different spiritual path–the correct one.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JULY 9, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF JOHANN RUDOLPH AHLE AND JOHANN GEORG AHLE, GERMAN LUTHERAN ORGANISTS AND COMPOSERS
THE FEAST OF EARL WARREN, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES
THE FEAST OF THE MARTYRS OF GORKUM, HOLLAND
THE FEAST OF ROBERT GRANT, BRITISH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT AND HYMN WRITER
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O God, your Son came among us to serve and not to be served,
and to give his life for the life of the world.
Lead us by his love to serve all those to whom
the world offers no comfort and little help.
Through us give hope to the hopeless,
love to the unloved,
peace to the troubled,
and rest to the weary,
through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and forever. Amen.
Hosea 2:18-23
Psalm 94:18-23
Romans 12:9-21
Luke 6:20-36
—Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006), page 60
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Above: Bournemouth, England, from the Sea, Between 1890 and 1900
Published by Detroit Publishing Company, 1905
Image Source = Library of Congress
Reproduction Number = LC-DIG-ppmsc-08032
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HENRY TWELLS (MARCH 23, 1823-JANUARY 19, 1900)
Anglican Priest and Hymn Writer
Henry Twells, born in Birmingham, England, attended King Edward’s School there.
Above: King Edward’s School from 1731 to 1834
(Image in the Public Domain)
Among his classmates were:
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889), Bishop of Durham from 1879 to 1889;
- Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901), Bishop of Durham from 1890 to 1901; and
- Edward White Benson (1829-1896), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 to 1896.
Our saint graduated from St. Peter’s College, Cambridge. Then he took Holy Orders in 1849. He served a series of congregations (none of which I feel like naming) and led two schools (none of which I feel like naming) before, from 1873 to 1877, being Select Preacher at Cambridge.
Above: Peterborough Cathedral, Between 1890 and 1910
Publisher and Copyright Claimant = Detroit Publishing Company
Image Source = Library of Congress
Reproduction Number = LC-D428-913
He, made an Honorary Canon of Peterborough Cathedral in 1884, retired for health reasons to Bournemouth in 1890. There he established and endowed partially a new congregation, St. Augustine’s, which he served until he died.
Twells had three great interests which concern me today: benevolence, missions, and worship. He devoted himself to helping the less fortunate and to extending the church. And he not only wrote hymns, but served on the committee for Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861) and its 1889 Appendix. I have posted one of his hymns to my GATHERED PRAYERS weblog.
Henry Twells served God and his fellow human beings’ needs faithfully, for divine glory and human benefit. That as a fine way to spend a life.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JULY 6, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF SAINTS VINCENTIA GEROSA AND BARTHOLOMEA CAPITANIO, COFOUNDERS OF THE SISTERS OF CHARITY OF LOVERE
THE FEAST OF ISAIAH, BIBLICAL PROPHET
THE FEAST OF JAN HUS, PROTO-PROTESTANT MARTYR
THE FEAST OF SAINT PALLADIUS, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP
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Heavenly Father, Shepherd of your people,
we thank you for your servant Henry Twells,
who was faithful in the care and nurture of your flock;
and we pray that, following his example and the teaching of his holy life,
we may by your grace grow into the stature of the fullness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Ezekiel 34:11-16
Psalm 23
1 Peter 5:1-4
John 21:15-17
—Holy Women, Holy Men: Celebrating the Saints (2010), page 718
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Above: Ruins of Roxburgh Castle, Kelso, Scotland, Between 1890 and 1900
Image Source = Library of Congress
Reproduction Number = LC-DIG-ppmsc-07621
Published by Detroit Publishing Company, 1905
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MARY LUNDIE DUNCAN (APRIL 26, 1814-JANUARY 5, 1840)
Scottish Presbyterian Hymn Writer
Mary Lundie, born in Kelso, Scotland,was a daughter of the Reverend Robert Lundie, a Church of Scotland minister. Her sister married Horatius Bonar (1808-1889), a great hymn writer. Our saint married the Reverend William Wallace Lundie (died in 1864), a Church of Scotland minster at Cleish, in 1836. Their marriage was brief, for she died in January 1840, after a chill turned into a fever. Our saint died a few months before her twenty-sixth birthday, leaving two young children behind.
The 1935 companion volume to the 1933 Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Hymnal says of our saint:
Mary Duncan was a most remarkable character. Her contemporaries compared her brilliant mind, overflowing personality, and devout spirit to those of Madame Guyon, the “evangelist of quietism.”
–pages 461-462
And Robert Guy McCutchan, in his 1937 companion volume to the 1935 Methodist Hymnal, wrote:
She was a beautiful woman with a beautiful character.
Here is an image of Mary Lundie Duncan I found at http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/d/u/n/duncan_ml.htm:
And here is a public domain image of Madame Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717):
For more about Quietism, follow this link.
Our saint wrote hymns for her children from July to December 1839. Her mother had them published posthumously. Among those hymns was “Jesus, Tender Shepherd, Hear Me.”
Our saint’s widower participated in the 1843 Disruption which formed the Free Church of Scotland, which reunited with the Church of Scotland in 1929.
Mary Lundie Duncan lived well during the short span of her life. She devoted her life to God and loved her family. Fortunately for us, that legacy survives in hymnals.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JULY 6, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF SAINTS VINCENTIA GEROSA AND BARTHOLOMEA CAPITANIO, COFOUNDERS OF THE SISTERS OF CHARITY OF LOVERE
THE FEAST OF ISAIAH, BIBLICAL PROPHET
THE FEAST OF JAN HUS, PROTO-PROTESTANT MARTYR
THE FEAST OF SAINT PALLADIUS, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP
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Dear God of beauty,
you have granted literary ability and spiritual sensitivity to
Mary Lundie Duncan and others, who have composed hymn texts.
May we, as you guide us,
find worthy hymn texts to be icons,
through which we see you.
In the Name of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 44:1-3a, 5-15
Psalm 147
Revelation 5:11-14
Luke 2:8-20
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
APRIL 20, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF SAINTS AMATOR OF AUXERRE AND GERMANUS OF AUXERRE, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS; SAINT MAMERTINUS OF AUXERRE, ROMAN CATHOLIC ABBOT; AND SAINT MARCIAN OF AUXERRE, ROMAN CATHOLIC MONK
THE FEAST OF JOHANNES BUGENHAGEN, GERMAN LUTHERAN PASTOR
THE FEAST OF SAINT MARCELLINUS OF EMBRUN, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP
THE FEAST OF OLAVUS AND LAURENTIUS PETRI, RENEWERS OF THE CHURCH
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Revised on November 21, 2016
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