Rise Up Singing: Dear Lord and Father

(Song begins at 1:45)
Words by John G. Whittier, 1872; melody by Frederick C. Maker, 1887 ("Rest")
Rise Up Singing chapter: Faith, p.41
C - - D / FC Am G - / C - E7 F /
F DmD G C / F - C -

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Kings%2019%20;&version=9;

Dear Lord and father of us all
(Dear Lord and father of mankind)
Forgive our foolish ways
Reclothe us in our rightful mind
In purer lives they service find
In deeper reverence, praise

In simple trust like those who heard
Beside the Syrian sea
The gracious calling of the Lord
Let us, like them, without a word
Rise up and follow thee

O Sabbath rest by Galilee
O calm of hills above
Where Jesus knelt to share with thee
The silence of eternity
Interpreted by Love

Drop thy still dews of quietness
Til all our strivings cease
Take from our souls the strain and stress
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of thy peace

Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and thy balm
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire
Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire
O still, small voice of calm

The prophet in the story at the end of the video is Elijah. He was fleeing through the desert from queen Jezebel and, overwhelmed, he asked God to let him die. Instead God sent an angel to give him food and water, and strength for the journey. That strength lasted him 40 days and 40 nights until he came to Horeb, still in despair over his predicament. An angel voice told him to go up on the mountain, and that's where it happened. The rest is in the video.

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[tqnews2]

Yours is the only version of this hymn with the melody by Maker. I've played it on the guitar for more than 40 years and was disappointed in my search until I came across your vid. I play it in C with excursions way up the neck. If I ever get a cam-corder I'll upload mine.

[matthewvaughan]

@tqnews2 I'd love to see yours, yeah. Thanks a lot for the comment.

Matthew

[matthewvaughan]

@tqnews2 Out of curiosity, what is the other melody this is done by? Maker's is the only one I've known.

[mkl62]

I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. I play the piano and organ. Today (February 12), I played this for Sunday School assembly. Sadly, it is not in our Hymn Book (Evangelical Lutheran Worship). It was in our other two (Lutheran Book of Worship and Service Book and Hymnal).

[ASignUponYourHand]

Try searching in youtube for:

Katherine Jenkins Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind

to hear the REPTON version.

[ASignUponYourHand]

I liked your informal modest and careful interpretation.

First time I'd heard this hymn to that tune. In England we are very used to the tune, REPTON. by Hubert Parry. George Stocks, director of music at Repton School, set it to 'Dear Lord and Father of mankind' for use in the school chapel. By this time, Rest, by Frederick Maker was already well established with the lyrics in the US.

The words are by an American Quaker, J G Whittier, from a much longer poem "The Brewing of the Soma".

[marcoacca]

Matthew, I just can't find the words to say thank you. But I'm sure that you know what I mean. Thanks for your friendship and for this little treasure. Un abbraccio, Marco.