By cool Siloam's shady rill

By cool Siloam's shady rill

시원한 실로암의 그늘진 시냇물 옆에서

 

이 찬송가는 영국 국교회 목사 히버(Reginald Heber,1783~1826)가 주현절(Epiphany) 첫 주일 찬송으로 작사한 곡입니다.

 

 

 

Reginald Heber was an English Anglican bishop, a man of letters, and hymn-writer. After 16 years as a country parson, he served as Bishop of Calcutta until his death at the age of 42. The son of a rich landowner and cleric, Heber gained fame at the University of Oxford as a poet.

 

Born: 21 April 1783, Malpas, United Kingdom

Died: 3 April 1826 (age 42 years), Tiruchirappalli, India

 

After graduation he made an extended tour of Scandinavia, Russia and Central Europe. Ordained in 1807, he took over his father's old parish, Hodnet, Shropshire. He also wrote hymns and general literature, including a study of the works of the 17th-century cleric Jeremy Taylor.

 

He was consecrated Bishop of Calcutta in October 1823. He travelled widely and worked to improve the spiritual and general living conditions of his flock. Arduous duties, a hostile climate and poor health led to his collapse and death after less than three years in India. Memorials were erected there and in St Paul's Cathedral, London. A collection of his hymns appeared soon after his death. "Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty" remains popular for Trinity Sunday, while "Brightest and Best" is frequently sung during Epiphany.

 

 

By cool Siloam’s shady rill

This appeared in the first Church Hymnary as a hymn for children.

 

Reginald Heber (d.1826: see further note on 111), had taken as his starting point Luke 2:40 (‘The child grew and became strong’) intending to help children be ready for the realities of life.

 

However, the Revised Church Hymnary refocused it as a baptismal hymn, deleting the two middle verses (passion and sorrows), and this, sung to ‘Belmont’, became very popular. Its successor, CH3, excised the references to Siloam and the rose of Sharon as having no link with baptism, keeping only the last two verses and inserting introductory verses by Thomas Haweis.

 

Songs of God’s People (supplement to CH3, 1988) bowed to popular demand and restored the much loved images. However, it also brought back the verses about maturer age and the hymn is now as Heber intended it. CH4 adopted this for its family section but kept the CH3 version in the baptism section.

 

 

By cool Siloam's shady rill 

The Christian Child

 

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By cool Siloam's shady rill

Author:1812  Reginald Heber (1783~1826)
Tune:   1842  SILOAM (Issac B. Woodbury1819 ~ 1858)
Published in 604 hymnals

Representative Text

1

By cool Siloam's shady rill
how sweet the lily grows!
How sweet the breath beneath the hill
of Sharon's dewy rose!

 

2

Lo! such the child whose early feet
the paths of peace have trod,
whose secret heart with influence sweet
is upward drawn to God.

 

3

By cool Siloam's shady rill
the lily must decay,
the rose that blooms beneath the hill
must shortly fade away;

 

4

And soon, too soon, the wintry hour
of life's maturer age
will shake the soul with sorrow's power
and stormy passion's rage.

 

5

O thou, whose infant feet were found
within thy Father's shrine,
whose years, with changeless virtue crowned,
were all alike divine,

 

6

Dependent on thy bounteous breath
we seek thy grace alone,
through every stage of life, and death,
to keep us still thine own.

Source: Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #688

 

 

 

By Cool Siloam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ObHBSuBZM

 

By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill - Ann Williamson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nq7AQSsoRI

 

Recorded live in 1991 in Northern Ireland.

 

Neil Reid "By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frpluubuj4s

 

By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDR9oFaUgNA