Hymns / Music :: Josiah Conder

Born: September 17, 1789, Falcon Street, London, England.

Died: December 27, 1855, Hampstead, Middlesex, England.

Son of an engraver and bookseller, Conder lost his right eye at age five, due to a bad smallpox vaccination. However, his native talents led him to be a successful author, editor and publisher. He edited The Eclectic Republic and The Patriot, and wrote books on a wide variety of secular and religious subjects. A member of the Congregationalist denomination, his Congregational Hymn-Book sold 90,000 copies in its first seven years. His other works include:

• The Withered Oak, 1805
• The Reverie, 1811
• The Star in the East, with other Poems chiefly Religious and Domestic, 1824
• Sacred Poems, Domestic Poems, and Miscellaneous Poems, 1824
• The Choir and the Oratory, 1836
• Hymns of Praise, Prayer, and Devout Meditation, 1856

Hymns:

1. Baptized into Our Savior’s Death
2. Be Merciful, O God of Grace
3. Beyond, Beyond That Boundless Sea
4. Blessed Be God, He Is Not Strict
5. Bread of Heaven, on Thee We Feed
6. Comrades of the Heavenly Calling
7. Day by Day the Manna Fell
8. Followers of Christ of Every Name
9. Forever Will I Bless the Lord
10. Grant Me, Heavenly Lord, to Feel
11. Grant, O Savior, to Our Prayers
12. Hallelujah! Raise, O Raise
13. Head of the Church, Our Risen Lord
14. Heavenly Father, to Whose Eye
15. Heavens Declare His Glory, The
16. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord, in the Highest Heaven
17. How Honored, How Dear
18. How Shall I Follow Him I Serve?
19. I Am Thy Workmanship, O Lord
20. In the Day of My Distress
21. Jehovah’s Praise Sublime
22. Leave Us Not Comfortless
23. Lord, for Thy Name’s Sake!
24. Lord Is King!, The
25. Now with Angels Round the Throne
26. O Be Joyful in the Lord
27. O Breathe upon This Languid Frame
28. O Comfort to the Dreary
29. O Give Thanks to Him Who Made
30. O God, Protector of the Lowly
31. O God, to Whom the Happy Dead
32. O God, Who Didst an Equal Mate
33. O God, Who Didst Thy Will Unfold
34. O God, Who Dost Thy Sovereign Might
35. O God Whose All Creating Might
36. O Holy, Holy, Holy Lord (Conder)
37. O How Feeble Flesh and Blood
38. O How Should Those Be Clean Who Bear
39. O Lord, Hadst Thou Been Here!
40. O Say Not, Think Not in Thy Heart
41. O Show Me Not the Savior Dying
42. O Thou Divine High Priest
43. O Thou God Who Hearest Prayer
44. O Thou Who Givest All Their Food
45. O Thou Whose Covenant Is Sure
46. Praise on Thee, in Zion Gates
47. Praise the God of All Creation
48. See the Ransomed Millions Stand
49. Thou Art the Everlasting Word
50. Thy Hands Have Made and Fashioned Me
51. ’Tis Not that I Did Choose Thee
    • My Lord, I Did Not Choose You
52. To All Thy Faithful People, Lord
53. To His Own World He Came
54. To Our God Loud Praises Give
55. Upon a World of Guilt and Night
56. Welcome, Welcome, Sinner, Hear
57. When in the Hour of Lonely Woe
58. Wheresoever Two or Three