Born: March 25, 1823, Alford, Som­er­set, Eng­land.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 13, 1903, Shamley Green, Sur­rey, Eng­land.

Buried: Sham­ley Green, Sur­rey, Eng­land.

Son of Rev. John Gale Dal­ton Thring and bro­ther of Lord Thring, God­frey grad­u­at­ed from Bal­li­ol Coll­ege, Ox­ford, Eng­land. He was or­dained in the An­gli­can church, and was giv­en the rec­to­ry at Al­ford-with-Horn­blot­ton, near Glas­ton­bury. Lat­er, he be­came Pre­bend­a­ry at Wells Ca­thed­ral. While at Al­ford-with-Horn­blot­ton, Thring wrote a num­ber of hymn vol­umes, in­clud­ing:

His Hymns and Po­ems for the Ho­ly Days and the Fes­tiv­als of the Church, be­came well known. Thring’s brother Edward wrote of this work:

Be sure that no paint­ing, no art work you could have done, could have been so pow­er­ful for good…As long as the Eng­lish lang­uage lasts, sun­dry of your hymns will be read and sung…and ma­ny a soul of God’s crea­tures will thrill at your words. What more can a man want? Ve­ry like­ly if you had had all that old heath­en­dom rammed in­to you, as I had, and all the lit­er­a­ry slic­ing and prun­ing, and been scis­sored like me, you would just have lost the fresh­ness and sim­ple touch which makes you what you are. No, my boy, I make a ti­dy school­mas­ter and pass in­to the lives of ma­ny a pu­pil, and you live on the lips of the Church. So be sa­tis­fied. And what does it mat­ter, if we do the Mas­ter’s will?

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All That’s Good, and Great, and True
  2. And Now, ’Mid Myriad Worlds En­throned
  3. Beneath the Church’s Hallowed Shade
  4. Blessed Sav­ior, Thou Hast Taught Us
  5. Blot Out Our Sins of Old
  6. Bowed Down with Sor­row, Sin and Shame
  7. Bulwark of a Mighty Na­tion
  8. Crown Him with Ma­ny Crowns
  9. Dead to Life, Yet Loath to Die
  10. Earth in Robes of Light Ar­rayed, The
  11. Fierce Raged the Tempest o’er the Deep
  12. For Mercy, Lord, I Cry
  13. Four Days Had Come and Gone to Rest
  14. From the Eastern Mountains
  15. Gird We, Sol­diers, for the Battle
  16. God the Fa­ther, God the Son, Ho­ly Spir­it, Three
  17. Grant us, O Our Hea­ven­ly Fa­ther
  18. Great Architect of Worlds Unknown
  19. Hail! Sac­red Day of Earthly Rest
  20. Hark! Hear Ye Not the An­gel Song
  21. Hark! The Vault of Hea­ven Is Ringing
  22. Hast Thou Sinned? Sin No More
  23. Have We No Zeal for Him Who Died?
  24. Heal Me, O My Sav­ior
  25. Hear Us, Thou That Brood­est
  26. I Heard a Sound of Voic­es
  27. In the Name of God the Fa­ther
  28. Jesus Came, the Hea­vens Adoring
  29. Jesu, Hea­ven­ly Shep­herd
  30. Last Great Day of Work Had Come
  31. Lord, Dis­miss Us with Thy Bless­ing
  32. Lord God Al­mighty, Who Hearest All
  33. Lord of Pow­er, Lord of Might
  34. Lord, Who at Cana’s Wedding Feast
  35. Make me Ho­ly, O My Sav­ior
  36. O Death, Thou Art No More
  37. O For the Faith That Knows No Doubt
  38. O God of Mercy, God of Might
  39. O God, the King of Glo­ry, Who
  40. O Mighty God, Cre­at­or, King
  41. O Sing to the Lord with a Psalm of Thanksgiving
  42. O Thou Who Dwellest in Realms of Light
  43. O Thou, Who Ev­ery Change of Human Life
  44. O Thou, Who from One Blood Didst Make
  45. O Thou Who Mad­est Land and Sea
  46. O Thou, Who Sittest En­throned above All Worlds
  47. Ocean Hath No Danger, The
  48. Radiant Morn Hath Passed Away, The
  49. Savior, Bless­èd Sav­ior
  50. See the Sun High Hea­ven As­cending
  51. So Grass, and Herb, and Fruitful Tree
  52. Thou That Sendest Sun and Rain
  53. Thou to Whom the Sick and Dy­ing
  54. Thrice Hap­py He Whose Tran­quil Mind
  55. Thy Love for All Thy Crea­tures
  56. To Thee, O God, We Render Thanks
  57. Watch Now, Ye Christ­ians
  58. We Know Not, O We Know Not
  59. When o’er the Water’s Misty Deep
  60. With Azure Girdle Circled Round
  61. With Tears and Hearts Bowed Down with Sor­row
  62. Work Is Sweet for God Hast Blest