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OLD
HUNDRED.
L.
M.
"
Sing,
O
ye
heavens,
.
.
.
shout,
ye
lower
parts
of
the
earth
:
break
forth
into
singing,
ye
mountains,
O
forest,
and
every
tree
therein."-ISA.
44
:
23.
BISHOP
KEN,
1661.
Key
of
A
Major.
GUIL.
FRANC,
1541.
O
come,
loud
anthems
let
us
sing,
Loud
thanks
to
our
Al-might-y
King.
For
we
our
voic-es
high
should
raise,
When
our
sal-va-tion's
Rock
we
praise.
Bishop
Ken
was
born
in
Great
Britain
in
1637
and
died
in
1711.
He
was
educated
at
New
Oxford
in
1762,
and
eighteen
years
later
King
Charles
II.
appointed
him
Chaplain
to
Princess
Mary
of
Orange,
and
before
his
death
made
him
Bishop
of
Bath
and
Wells.
He
was
a
great
orator,
minister,
and
poet.
King
James
II.
imprisoned
him
for
refusing
to
sign
the
Declaration
of
Independence.
He
ministered
to
Charles
II.
in
his
last
moments.
His
"
Manuel
of
Prayers,"
in
which
his
hymns
were
published,
appeared
in
numerous
editions
up
to
the
time
of
his
death.
The
music
of
"Old
Hundred"
is
generally
credited
to
Guil.
Franc,
of
France,
who
is
sometimes
called
William
the
Frenchman.
He
founded
a
school
in
Geneva,
in
1541,
where
he
was
Chapel
Master
for
some
time.
He
died
in
1570.
Some
claim
the
music
of
"
Old
Hundred"
to
be
one
of
Luther's
melodies,
while
others
attribute
it
to
Bourgeois.
It
is
generally
conceded,
however,
to
William
the
Frenchman.
It
is
one
of
the
oldest
tunes
in
the
books,
and
has
been
used
throughout
Christendom
for
over
300
years.
MEAR.
C.
M.
"
What
if.God,
willing
to
shew
his
wrath,
and
to
make
his
power
known,
endured
with
much
long-suffering."-ROM.
9
:
22.
JESSE
MERCER.
Key
of
G
Major.
AARON
WILLIAMS,
1760.
1.
Will
God
for
-
ev
-
er
cast
us
off?
His
wrath
for
-
ev
-
er
smoke
A-gainst
the
peo
-
ple
of
His
love,
His
lit
-
tle
cho
-
sen
flock.
2.
Think
of
the
tribes
so
dear
-
ly
bought
With
the
Re-deem
-
er's
blood.
Nor
let
Thy
Zi
-
on
be
for-got,
Where
once
Thy
glo
-
ry
stood.
3.
Where
once
Thy
church-es
prayed
and
sang
Thy
foes
pro-fane
-
l
y
rage;
A
-
mid
Thy
gates
their
en-signs
hang,
And
there
their
host
en-gage.
4.
And
still
to
height-en
our
dis
-
tress,
Thy
pres
-
ence
is
with-drawn;
Thy
wonted
signs
of
pow'r
and
grace
Thy
pow'r
and
grace
are
gone.
5.
No
proph
-
et
speaks
to
calm
our
grief,
But
all
in
si
-
lence
mourn;
Nor
know
the
hour
of
our
re
-
lief,
The
hour
of
Thy
re
-
turn.
There
are
two
sources
claiming
the
authorship
of
this
tune.
In
one
it
is
credited
to
Aaron
Williams,
who
was
born
in
1734
and
died
in
1776.
The
tune
is
a
Welsh
air
without
doubt.
The
Americans
claim
an
earlier
date
for
the
tune,
1726;
that
it
is
an
American
tune,
and
was
composed
by
a
Boston
minister,
but
do
not
give
his
name.
There
has
been
but
little
change
in
the
melody.
B.
F.
White
made
slight
changes
in
the
tenor
and
treble
about
1846-47.
It
is
one
of
the
standard
melodies,
and
has
been
for
nearly
200
years.
"
Mear"
appears
in
all
the
earlier
publications
of
American
tune
books.
See
"Southern
Harmony,"
by
William
Walker,
1835,
page
24;
"
Missouri
Harmony,"
1837,
page
24.
The
words
are
from
"
Mercer's
Cluster,"
by
Jesse
Mercer,
minister
of
the
gospel,
Washington,
Ga.,
1830,
5th
edition,
page
391,
and
publication
by
same
author
of
same
hymn
but
in
1823,
page
397,
while
he
lived
at
Powellton,
Ga.
Copyright,
1909,
by
J.
S.
James.