MUSIC. ALL SAINTS NEW was written for Bishop Heber’s hymn, “The Son of God goes forth to war.”
The composer, Henry Stephen Cutler, 1824-1902, received his education at Boston, his birthplace, and in Europe. He became a well-known organist and choir master, serving churches in Boston, New York, and other cities, and attracted attention by robing his choir members and seating them in the chancel, innovations in his day.
TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS
195. In the hour of trial
James Montgomery, 1771-1854
Alt. Frances A. Hutton and Godfrey Thring
The hymn is based on Luke 22:32: “I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.” It was written October 13, 1834, with the title, “In trial and temptation,” and published in 1853 in Montgomery’s Original Hymns under the title “Prayers on Pilgrimage.” The third and fourth stanzas have been altered considerably, not entirely for the better. Montgomery began the second stanza:
With its witching pleasures.
In the first stanza he had
Jesus pray for me;