Welcome!

Hymn Information

How Firm A Foundation
Score
< Back to the list >
Author George Keith George Keith's bio information 1638 - 1716 Born: 1638 Died: 1716 George Keith, according to D. Sedgwick, was the author of "How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord." Little is known about Keith, save that he was a publisher, a son-in-law of Dr. Gill, and the composer of several hymns. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.
Composer Anne Steele Anne Steele's bio information 1716 - November 11, 1778 Born: 1716, Broughton, Hampshire, England. Died: November 11, 1778, Broughton, Hampshire, England. Buried: Broughton, Hampshire, England. Pseudonym: Theodosia. Anne was the daughter of William Steele, a timber merchant who was also a lay preacher at the Baptist church in Broughton. She lost her mother at age 3. At age 19, a severe hip injury made her a lifelong invalid. At age 21, her fiancé drowned the day before they were to be married. From this series of tragedies rose 144 hymns and 34 versified Psalms, which were enormously popular. Her main work was Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional (1760). When Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts (where Phillips Brooks later became rector) published its hymnal in 1808, 59 of its 144 hymns were from the pen of Anne Steele. She preferred to remain anonymous, though, writing under a pen name. Her tombstone carried the following words: Silent the lyre, and dumb the tuneful tongue, That sung on earth her great Redeemer’s praise; But now in Heaven she joins the angelic song, In more harmonious, more exalted lays. Sources * Julian, pp. 1089, 1161, 1577, 1590, 1654, 1675, 1681 * Stulken, p. 316 * Wright, pp. 276-7 Hymns 1. Ah, Wretched Souls Who Strive in Vain * May I Resolve with All My Heart * Now I Resolve with All My Heart 2. Alas! What Hourly Dangers Rise 3. Amazing Love That Stooped So Low 4. Bright Scenes of Bliss, Unclouded Skies 5. Come, Heavenly Love, Inspire My Song * Come, Heavenly Dove, Inspire My Song * Come, Holy Ghost, Inspire Our Song * Come, Holy Spirit, Guide My Song * Savior! O What Endless Charms, The 6. Come, Let Our Souls Adore the Lord 7. Come, Tune Ye Saints, Your Noblest Strains 8. Come Ye That Love the Savior’s Name 9. Dear Refuge of My Weary Soul 10. Deep Are the Wounds Which Sin Has Made 11. Enslaved by Sin, and Bound in Chains 12. Eternal Power, Mighty God 13. Eternal Source of Joys Divine 14. Far from These Narrow Scenes of Night 15. Father of Mercies, in Thy Word 16. Father, Whate’er of Earthly Bliss 17. God of My Salvation Lives, The 18. Gospel, O What Endless Charms, The 19. Great God, to Thee My Evening Song 20. Great Source of Boundless Power and Grace 21. He Lives! the Great Redeemer Lives! 22. Hear, Gracious Lord, My Humble Moan 23. Hear, O My God, with Pity Hear 24. How Blest Are Those, How Truly Wise 25. How Far Beyond Our Mortal View 26. How Helpless Guilty Nature Lies 27. How Lovely, How Divinely Sweet 28. How Oft, Alas! 29. In Vain I Trace Creation O’er 30. In Vain My Roving Thoughts Would Find 31. Jesus, and Didst Thou Leave the Sky? 32. Jesus Demands This Heart of Mine 33. Jesus, the Spring of Joys Divine 34. Jesus, Thou Source Divine 35. Look Up, My Soul, with Cheerful Eye 36. Lord, How Mysterious Are Thy Ways 37. Lord, in the Temple of Thy Grace 38. Lord, in Thy Great, Thy Glorious Name 39. Lord, My Shepherd and My Guide, The 40. Lord, the God of Glory Reigns, The 41. Lord, Thou Hast Been Thy Children’s God 42. Lord, We Adore Thy Boundless Grace 43. Lord, When My Raptured Thought Surveys 44. Lord, When My Thoughts Delighted Rove 45. Mind Was Formed to Mount Sublime, The 46. My God, My Father, Blissful Name! 47. My God, O Could I Make the Claim 48. My God, ’Tis to Thy Mercy Seat 49. My God, to Thee I Call 50. My Maker and My King 51. My Soul, to God, Its Source, Aspires 52. O Could Our Thoughts and Wishes Fly 53. O for a Sweet, Inspiring Ray 54. O for the Eye of Faith Divine 55. O Jesus, Our Exalted Head 56. O Thou Whose Tender Mercy Hears 57. O World of Bliss, Could Mortal Eyes 58. Once Loved form Now Could and Dead, The 59. Permit Me, Lord, to Seek Thy Face 60. Praise Ye the Lord, Let Praise Employ 61. Savior Calls, The 62. See, Lord, Thy Willing Subjects Bow 63. Should Famine o’er the Mourning Field 64. So Fades the Lovely, Blooming Flower 65. Stern Winter Throws His Icy Chains 66. Stretched on the Cross, the Savior Dies 67. Sure, the Blest Comforter Is Nigh 68. There Is a Glorious World on High 69. Thou Lovely Source of True Delight 70. Thou Only Sovereign of My Heart 71. Thy Gracious Presence, O My God 72. Thy Kingdom, Lord, Forever Stands 73. To Jesus, Our Exalted Lord 74. To Our Redeemer’s Glorious Name 75. To Your Creator, God 76. Triumphant, Christ Ascends on High 77. When Blest with That Transporting View 78. When Death Before My Sight 79. When Gloomy Thoughts and Boding Fears 80. When I Resolved to Watch My Thoughts * Almighty Maker of My Frame 81. When I Survey Life’s Varied Scene 82. When Sins and Fears Prevailing Rise 83. When Weary Souls with Sin Distressed 84. Whene’er the Angry Passions Rise 85. Where Is God? Does He Retire 86. While My Redeemer’s Near 87. Why Sinks My Weak Desponding Mind? 88. Ye Earthly Vanities, Depart 89. Ye Glittering Toys of Earth Adieu 90. Ye Humble Souls, Approach Your God Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/t/e/steele_a.html
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 Text from Isaiah 43:1-7 "K" in Rippon's Selection, 1787 First Tune
Lyrics How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word! What more can He say than to you He hath said Who unto the Savior for refuge have fled? In every condition, in sickness, in health, In poverty's vale, or abounding in wealth, At home and abroad, on the land, on the sea, The Lord, the Almighty, they strength e'er shall be. "Fear not, I am with thee, oh, be not dismayed, For I am thy God and will still give thee aid; I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand. "When through the deep waters I call thee to go, The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow; For I will be with thee thy troubles to bless And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. "When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie, My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply. The flames shall not hurt thee; I only design Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine. "E'en down to old age all My people shall prove My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love; And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn, Like lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne. "The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose I will not, I will not, desert to his foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never, forsake!"

Comments

This hymn doesn't have any comments yet.
You can be the first!

The last 10 hymns uploaded.

# 1 - Abide With Me 3 (uploaded on Jul 07, 2013)
# 2 - Jesus, Rose Of Sharon 3 (uploaded on Jul 07, 2013)
# 3 - Come, Thou Almighty King 2 (uploaded on Jul 07, 2013)
# 4 - The Broken Heart 2 (uploaded on Aug 20, 2012)
# 5 - Holy Spirit, Teacher Thou (uploaded on May 14, 2012)
# 6 - Beneath The Shadow Of The Cross (uploaded on Jan 23, 2011)
# 7 - All People That On Earth (uploaded on Sep 26, 2010)
# 8 - The Wondrous Gift (uploaded on Sep 26, 2010)
# 9 - Deeper Yet (uploaded on Jun 14, 2010)
#10 - Great God Of Wonders (uploaded on Jun 13, 2010)

How Firm A Foundation

The last 10 hymns uploaded.