67, rewritten as a NewTestament missionary hymn. The hymn was first printed in The Congregationalist, December 21, 1849. 32:7: “Remember the days ofold” on “Some Prominent Characteristics of the Earl圜hristians,” he wrote the hymn in order that it might be used in theservice. Whilehe was preparing a sermon from the text Deut. Henry M.Dexter declared that after he first translated theGreek text of Clement’s into prose, he “transfused as much of itslanguage and spirit” as he could into the verse. It was appended to the second of Clement’s greattrilogy, The Tutor.
Bingham oh lord my inmost heart free#
? This hymn is a rather free translation, if it can becalled that, of one of our oldest Christian hymns, attributed to Clement ofAlexandria, beginning with the line Stomion pwlwn adawn. Lindeman’s Koralbog hastwo melodies, the one being taken from Kingo’s Gradual, 1699, the other being composed by Lindeman. 1884), for the hymn“Du Herre Krist, min Frelser est.” The first four measures arerepeated. The melody was written by the Danish organist and composer,Johan Christian Gebauer (b. The melody (Magdalene) is by Sir John Stainer, and wascomposed especially for this hymn for The revised Edition of Hymns Ancientand Modern, 1875. Some musicians think it is a recast ofCrüger’s tune by the same name “in the Freylinghausenmanner” others consider it an original melody. It appeared in his Neues Geistreiches Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704. The most popular tune for this hymn is by Johann A.Freylinghausen. It is based on an older melody, set to the hymn“Ein wahrer Glaub’ Gottes Zorn stillt” in BartholomäusGesius’s Geistliche Deutsche Lieder, etc., Frankfurt a. The tune “Mach’s mit mir, Gott” is byJohann Hermann Schein, 1628.
In Schein’s Choralgesänge there are twoarrangements by J. Schein,was first printed in a little pamphlet with the hymn, “Machs mit mir,Gott, nach deiner Gut,” and later it appeared in Schein’sCantional, Leipzig, 1645. The melody (Machs mit mir, or Eisenach) by J.
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