Keiner soll nimmer
Lieber uns werden
Als er, der schönste Jesus mein!
MUSIC. CRUSADER’S HYMN, also known as Schönster Herr Jesu, appeared in a book of Silesian folk songs, Schlesische Volkslieder, Leipzig, 1842. The hymn with this tune was first published in America in Church Carols and Choir Studies by the American composer Richard Storrs Willis, 1850. F. Melius Christiansen, director of the St. Olaf Choir, has arranged an exquisite anthem on this melody with the words “Beautiful Savior.”
It is a useful and charming melody. Its popularity in Germany ranks with Paul Gerhardt’s “Befiehl du deine Wege.”
98. Not always on the mount
Frederick L. Hosmer, 1840-1929
Based on the story of the transfiguration in Matthew 17, the lesson enforced by the hymn is that the mount is necessary for vision; we cannot abide there, yet our work in the valley will be nobler for the pattern shown us on the mount.
For comments on Frederick L. Hosmer see [Hymn 72].
The hymn, written in 1882, was first published in Unity, Chicago, April 1, 1884. A year later it was included, in revised form, in the author’s first series of The Thought of God.