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Glory To God In The Highest - 2
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Author Carl Heinrich van Bogatsky Carl Heinrich van Bogatsky's bio information September 7, 1690 - June 15, 1774 Carl Heinrich von Bogatsky Bogatzky belonged to a worldly and ambitious family; he began life as a page at court, and his father was bent on his entering the army. He himself was even then more inclined to study; and a certain friend of his family, an old Count Reuss, a religious and clever man, induced his father to let him go to Halle and see Franke. The result was his determination to study theology, and to cast in his lot with the Pietists. His delicate health prevented him from ever taking the regular charge of a church, and he devoted himself through life to authorship, assistance in charitable undertakings, and speaking in private assemblies. His noble birth procured him admittance to the higher circles of society, and he counted many converts among the nobility of Silesia, Bohemia, and Saxony. Freylinghausen, and afterwards Franke's son Gottlieb Franke, were his most intimate friends; and the latter invited him, after his wife's death, to occupy apartments in the Orphan-house, where the last twenty-eight years of his life were spent, until his death in 1774, at the age of eighty-four. He lived long enough to see the tide of feeling in Halle turned against the Pietists who had so long swayed it, and in favour of the scepticism which was then spreading from France into Germany; and this experience darkened his later years, for in place of the veneration with which he had been once regarded, he was frequently the subject of ridicule and of attacks from the younger students. Bogatzky, with the other writers just named, were the chief authors of a certain collection of hymns, called from its place of publication the "Cöthen Hymns." Both 274 in character, and in the position it occupied in the religious history of the time, this book strongly resembled the "Olney Hymns" of Newton and Cowper; but comparatively few of its original productions are now ranked among the classical hymns of Germany. Those of Bogatzky are among the best; he composed about four hundred hymns in all for this and other collections, some of which have great thoughtfulness and dignity, but not the simplicity or melody which would adapt them for congregational use. The following was composed after witnessing a storm among the mountains of the Riesengebirge:-- Source: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/winkworth/hyndwink.bogatsky.html Born: September 7, 1690, on his father's estate of Jankowe, near Militsch, Schlesien (Silesia). Died: June 15, 1774, Halle, Germany. Hymns Wach auf du Gesit der ersten Zeugen Awake, Thou Spirit, Who Didst Fire Awake, Thou Spirit, Who of Old Ich bin erlöst durch meines Mittler’s Blut I am Redeemed! the Purchase of That Blood Du Hüter Israel Einer bliebt König, wenn alles erlieget Heut ist dein Tag vorhanden Hirt und Hüter deiner Schaafe Jehovah, hoher Gott von Macht und Stärke O stilles Lamme, du hast für mich gelitten Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/o/g/bogatzsky_chv.html
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Arranger A. H. M. A. H. M.'s bio information June 27, 1960 - Born in the Van Wert Ohio Hospital on June 27, 1960, Alvin (Bud) Herman Manz, Jr. was the 3rd of 4 sons born to Betty Manz and firstborn to her second husband, Alvin. His older siblings, John Paul Rose, Jr. (1956) and Joseph Henry Rose (1957), were born to John Paul Rose. In 1958, John Sr. passed away leaving Betty with 2 little boys to care for until she met Alvin Manz and got married to him on October 3, 1959. Bud's younger sibling, Robert James Manz, Sr., was born on August 23, 1961. Bud never married, instead lives with his father just south of Defiance Ohio.
Notes Alternate Zion's Harp Numbers: None Meter: 8.8.7.7.4.
Lyrics Glory to God in the Highest! In remoteness and near by us Ruleth He with might and grace. Let us bring our thanks and praise! Let us bring our thanks and praise! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Peace and good will to all nations! Ye, the heirs of His salvation, Far and near, O sons of men, Praise the Lord with glad refrain! Praise the Lord with glad refrain! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Joyously sound ye His praises! Men, Whom to His choice He raises, Triumph! To a high estate! We are bought by love so great! We are bought by love so great! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

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