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Charles Wesley, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul”
This hymn is one of the most popular written by theprolific Charles Wesley (1707–1788). Charles andJohn Wesley (1703–1791), the brothers whose evan-gelical vision and tireless efforts shaped 18th-cen-tury Methodism, left a rich legacy of hymns withenduring appeal. They encouraged congregationalsinging and provided their followers with songsthat gave vent to the deepest emotions of partici-pants in the 18th-century evangelical awakening.The vast majority of the Wesleys hymns came fromthe pen of Charles.
The brothers were reared in an Anglican manseand deeply influenced by their capable mother,Susannah, and their rector father, Samuel. Edu-cated at Oxford, they took Anglican orders andsailed to the American colonies to undertake amission in Georgia. In Savannah, they compiledtheir first hymnal but met with no marked religioussuccess. They returned to England, deeming theirmissionary efforts a failure. In the third week ofMay, 1738, both brothers experienced dramaticawakenings to faith—in John Wesley’s famous de-scription, their hearts were “strangely warmed.” Anew commitment to evangelism and holinessmarked their future efforts. Charles Wesley imme-diately turned to poetry to express his religiousemotions and urge others on to deeper commit-ment. He wrote his first hymn a day or two after hisconversion and dictated his last on his deathbed.
“Jesus, Lover of My Soul” first appeared in theWesleys’ 1740 publication, Hymns and Sacred Po-ems. It is based on a text in the Apocrypha, Wisdom11:26 (“Thou sparest all things, for they are thine, OLord who lovest the living”), and also borrows fromMatthew Prior’s poem, “Solomon,” published in1718. Its point is simple: Jesus is the soul’s onlysatisfaction: “Thou, O Christ, art all I want/Morethan all in thee I find.”
Charles Wesley wrote five stanzas for this hymn.The third is now generally omitted:
Wilt Thou not regard my call?Wilt Thou not accept my prayer?Lo, I sink, I faint, I fall!Lo, on Thee I cast my care;Reach me out Thy gracious hand!While I of Thy strength receive,Hoping against hope I stand,Dying, and behold I live!
John Wesley disliked the intimate language of hisbrother’s poem, once declaring his effort “in all thehymns which are addressed to our blessed Lord, toavoid every fondling expression, and to speak as tothe most-high God.” When he edited the definitiveCollection of Hymns for the People Called Method-ists (1780), he omitted this popular hymn. His
objections failed to diminish its appeal. Just tenyears later (1790), American Methodists included itin their hymnal. In 1807, it appeared in an Americanhymnal published by Roman Catholics; in 1870, theReorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daySaints opted to put it in their hymnal. Well over2,000 hymnals published in the United States haveincluded “Jesus, Lover of My Soul.”
This hymn has been set to various tunes. Themost popular in the United States are REFUGE, MARTYN
and ABERYSTWYTH. In Great Britain and the UnitedStates, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” is perhaps mostoften sung today to ABERYSTWYTH, a haunting minormelody by Joseph Parry (1841–1903). A native ofWales, Parry was an ironmaster who spent sometime in the United States. He later became a profes-sional musician and disciplined himself for a time tocompose one hymn tune every week. He wroteABERYSTWYTH while visiting the seaside town of thatname in 1879.
John Bowring, “Watchman, Tell Us of the Night”
Sir John Bowring wrote “Watchman, Tell Us of theNight” in 1825 as a poem rather than for use as ahymn. He first found it used as a hymn early in the1830s when he attended a meeting of Americanmissionaries in Turkey and heard them sing it.Bowring was born in Exeter, England, in 1792. Theson of a wool manufacturer, he worked briefly withhis father and also studied modern languages. As ayoung man, he became a follower of JeremyBentham and a contributor to the WestminsterReview. In 1835, he entered the House of Com-mons as a Radical. He began a distinguished careerof government service abroad in 1849, concludingas Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice-Admi-ral of Hong Kong and its dependencies, and Super-intendent of Trade east of the Ganges. Knighted in1854, he published widely and devoted himself toreform causes until his death in 1792.
There has been debate about how to classifyBowring’s religious inclinations. A member of aUnitarian congregation, he manifested strong af-finities for evangelical piety. While several of hispoems gained wide acclaim as hymns (especially“Watchman, Tell Us of the Night” and “In the Crossof Christ I Glory”), others have been used almostexclusively by Unitarians.
This hymn arrangement is sponsored by theInstitute for the Study of American Evangelicals(ISAE) at Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187,through a grant from The Lilly Endowment. TheISAE exists to encourage and support researchon evangelical Christianity in North America.
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Watchman, Tell Us of the NightSATB, organ, brass quartet, timp., and opt. cong.
Charles Wesley, 1740John Bowring, 1825
ABERYSTWYTH, Joseph Parry, 1879;setting by Carl Schalk, 2000
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Carl Scalk
Carl Schalk is Distinguished Professor of MusicEmeritus at Concordia University, in River Forest,Ill., where he taught graduate courses in churchmusic since 1965. Previously, he was a teacher anddirector of music at Zion Lutheran Church in Wassau,Wisconsin, and director of music for the Interna-tional Lutheran Hour. He was editor of the journalChurch Music from 1966-1980. He has served onvarious boards and committees for The HymnScociety, the National Association of Pastoral Musi-cians, and the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Wor-ship, which prepared the Lutheran Book of Wor-
ship. His choral compositions and hymn settingsfor congregational use are widely used. He haswritten over 80 hymn tunes and carols.
Schalk was born in Chicago in 1929. He earneda B.S. in Ed. from Concordia College, River Forest,Ill., and advanced degrees from the Eastman Schoolof Music, Rochester , New York, (M.Mus) and Con-cordia Seminary, St. Louis (M.A.R.). He has receivedseveral honorary degrees and is a Fellow of TheHymn Society in the United States and Canada. In1999 he was honored with the Wittenberg Awardfor his contribution to Lutheran church music.
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