01.23. Appendix 1

Appendix 1 Hymns of Christ’s singers through the night of the dark ages: For They Saw The Morning Star!

3rd Century-Clement of Alexandria: “Shepherd of Tender Youth” (earliest Christian hymn).

4th Century-Ambrose of Milan:

“The dawn is sprinkling in the east Its golden shower, as day flows in;

Fast mount the pointed shafts of light;

Farewell to darkness and to sin.”

5th Century-Claudianus Mamertus:

“Sing, my tongue, the Savior’s triumph!”

Anatolius of Constantinople:

(a) “Fierce was the wild billow,” (b) “The day is past and over.”

6th Century-Gregory the Great:

“O Christ, our King, Creator, Lord!”

St. Hilary of Aries:

“Thou art the world’s true Morning Star!”

Venantius Fortunatus:

“The royal banners forward go!”

7th Century-Andrew of Crete:

“Christian, dost thou see them?”

8th Century-Stephen of St. Sabas:

“Art thou weary?”

9th Century-Rabanus Maurass:

“Come, O Creator, Spirit Blest!”

Joseph of the Studium:

“Jesus, Lord of life eternal”; also, “Safe home, safe home.”

Theodistus of the Studium:

“Jesus, Name all names above!”

10th Century-Metrophanes of Smyrna:

“O Unity of three-fold light.”

11th Century-Hermanus Contractus:

“Come, Holy Ghost, in Love!”

Peter Damiani:

“There not waxing moon, nor waning, Sun nor stars in courses bright; For the Lamb, to that glad city Shines an everlasting light.”

12th Century-Unknown Author:

“The strife is o’er, the battle done;

He closed the yawning gates of hell; The bars from Heaven’s high portals fell;

Let hymns of praise His triumps tell! Hallelujah!”

Adam of St. Victor:

“Earth blooms afresh in glorious dyes; In Christ’s arising all things rise; A solemn joy o’er nature lies;

Alleluia;”

Bernard of Cluny:

“Jerusalem, the Golden.”

Unknown Author:

“Fairest Lord Jesus” (The Crusader’s Hymn).

13th Century-Thomas of Celano: (Dies irae, dies ilia!) “May I find grace, O Lord, with Thee? So the thief upon the tree;

Hope, too, Thou hast breathed in me”

14th Century-Unknown Author:

“Jesus is the Name we treasure.”

Jacobus de Benedictus: (Stabat Mater) Mechtilde of Helffde:

“If the world were mine and all its store And were it of crystal gold; Could I reign on its throne forevermore, From the ancient days of old, An empress noble and fair as day, O gladly might it be;- That I might cast it all away:

Christ, only Christ for me!”

“For Christ, my Lord, my spirit longs, For Christ, my Saviour dear: The joy and sweetness of my songs The whilst I wander here.” As the great truths of grace began to be recovered more fully, the “Song of the Lord” burst more and more fully forth; until the Reformers took down the Church’s harps from the willows of the “Babylonian Captivity” of over a thousand years.