1823-1903

March 25, 1823, Al­ford, Som­er­set, Eng­land.

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

Sham­ley Green, Sur­rey, Eng­land.

Son of Rev. John Gale Dal­ton Thring and bro­ther of Lord Thring, God­frey grad­u­at­ed from Bal­li­ol Coll­ege, Ox­ford. 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?

  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
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