The Day Thou Gavest Lord - Inspirational Hymns

During his lifetime, John Ellerton (1826-1893) wrote a large number of hymns and translations, and a glance at the index of almost any hymn book will reveal at least four or five of his works. Ellerton's contributions to English hymnody are best represented in Hymns Ancient and Modern and The Methodist Hymnbook (1933) which both include his original hymns The day thou gavest and This is the day of light and his translation from the Mozarabic Breviary of the fifth century of Sing alleluia forth.
Two hymn tunes of Reverend Clement Cotterill Scholefield (1839-1904) have been set to poems by Ellerton; the hymn tune 'Irene' is often coupled with Ellerton's When the day of toil is done and on this recording The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended is set to Scholefield's more familiar tune 'St Clement'.

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[gbolagun]

great hymn to thank the Lord when you sit back every night to appreciate God's mercy, kindness & protection. God bless you, TVNORTH. ever since i knew this hymn in the early 80s, i thank God for the hymn.

[bikermanx1]

a Wonderful hymn bought tears to my eyes was played at my grand fathers funeral and being ex army our local army base heard of this and gave him a funeral with full military honours and i very proudly carried his medals behind his coffin thank you for this wonderful hymn

[uo8am]

All this,and Jesus

[mytramplady]

@gbolagun beautiful

[mtheadedwally]

I know what you mean about it being bad. I've just been thinking about a family member who died recently and came here for comfort. I got this which, despite my sadness, made me chuckle, especially the common about the tenor. God bless that choir for putting a smile back on my face and thank you.

[yvonne875]

I love this song it is so touching to the heart.

[misslouisefletcher]

Stunning x

[Boxofscorpions]

Beautiful song, and I also live in Hull, and so can say that it is also a beautiful bridge.

[trydreamin]

I first heard this played on the steel drum by the top tenor master panner from the Pan Am North Star Jets while watching the sunset on Montserrat in 1981. We became fast friends and later that year played a concert that raised money to buy all the school books that year. His name is Jackie Dangler and he played on Jimmie Buffett's "Vulcano" album. I would like to find him now as he is very holy man who brought great blessings to my life. I believe he is in New York. God bless you, Jackie.

[kenilworthjim]

This Hymn is wonderful and only serves to strengthen my belief and faith - thank you