Islington
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; † 18 October 1905,
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) was a poet and prophet in the
Catholic Apostolic Church
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and co-author of the ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches'', the hymnal of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Life
Edward Wilton Eddis was born on 10 May 1825 in Islington as the last of the five children of Eden Eddis (*1784,† 1838) and Clementia Parker (*1789,† 1875). His eldest brother was the portrait artist
Eden Upton Eddis
Eden Upton Eddis (9 May 1812 – 7 April 1901) was a British portrait artist.
Life
Eden was born in Newington Green in 1812, his brother Edward became a hymn writer.
Eden enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools in 1828. From the age of 25 until ...
. The other three were: Clementia Esther Eddis (*31 December 1815, † 16 December 1887), Arthur Shelly Eddis (*11 January 1817, † 23 May 1893) and Henry William Eddis (*30 November 1820, † 1911, Ontario). Edward Wilton Eddis married Ellen Sheppard (*12 May 1829, † 5 February 1878, Berrima, New South Wales, Australia) in the late 1840s or the beginning of the 1850s and they had four children:
Ellen M. Eddis (*1854, † 1892 in Melbourne, Victoria), Wilton Clement Eddis (*1855, † 1919), Marion Elizabeth Eddis (*1862, † 1893 in Carlton, Victoria) and Ethel Shearman Eddis (*1864 in England, † 1884 in Prn Alfho, Australia). Given the places of birth of his children and the places of death of his wife, he married Ellen Sheppard before 1854 and the family must have moved to Australia in the late 1860s or the 1870s. Furthermore, Edward Wilton Eddis was unfortunate to survive three of his children.
E.W. Eddis was a member of the
Catholic Apostolic Church
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when the latter published ''The New Apostles; or, Irvingism, its history, doctrines, and practices'' in 1860, an attack on the
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In his activities for the Catholic and Apostolic Church Eddis edited together with
John Bate Cardale John Bate Cardale (1802–1877) was an English religious leader, the first apostle of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Life
J. B. Cardale was born in London on 7 November 1802, as the eldest of five children to William Cardale (1775-1838) and Mary An ...
the ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches'', the first Catholic Apostolic Hymnal: (see below). After moving to Australia, Edward Wilton Eddis was one of the 11 clergy operating for the
Catholic Apostolic Church
The Catholic Apostolic Church (CAC), also known as the Irvingian Church, is a Christian denomination and Protestant sect which originated in Scotland around 1831 and later spread to Germany and the United States.John Bate Cardale John Bate Cardale (1802–1877) was an English religious leader, the first apostle of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Life
J. B. Cardale was born in London on 7 November 1802, as the eldest of five children to William Cardale (1775-1838) and Mary An ...
, Apostle for England in the
Catholic Apostolic Church
The Catholic Apostolic Church (CAC), also known as the Irvingian Church, is a Christian denomination and Protestant sect which originated in Scotland around 1831 and later spread to Germany and the United States.Catholic Apostolic Church
The Catholic Apostolic Church (CAC), also known as the Irvingian Church, is a Christian denomination and Protestant sect which originated in Scotland around 1831 and later spread to Germany and the United States.John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, 1957
This hymnal was intended for use in public worship of the Church and in private devotional exercises. However, the hymns with respect to the holy communion and the eucharist (part I), were to be used in the Communion exclusively.Edward Winton Eddis (ed.), ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches'', third edition, 1875 The 1864 edition contained 205 hymns, of which nineteen were his original poems, and two translations. Th second edition of the Hymns for the Use of the Churches was a revised and enlarged edition with 320 hymns and 44 doxologies. It was published in 1871 (London, J. Strangeways). To this E.W. Eddis contributed forty new hymns and one translation, thus making 62 hymns by E.W. Eddis. The third edition of the ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches'' appeared in 1875 and also contains 320 hymns and 44 doxologies; it is a reprint of that of 1871 with a few verbal alterations. Most of the hymntexts were taken from other hymnals and sometimes slightly altered:
''Hymns Ancient and Modern'' 1861 edition compiled by
William Henry Monk
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John Mason Neale
John Mason Neale (24 January 1818 – 6 August 1866) was an English Anglican priest, scholar and hymnwriter. He worked and wrote on a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most ...
John Mason Neale
John Mason Neale (24 January 1818 – 6 August 1866) was an English Anglican priest, scholar and hymnwriter. He worked and wrote on a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most ...
Catherine Winkworth
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Jane Laurie Borthwick
Jane Laurie Borthwick (9 April 1813, Edinburgh, Scotland; 7 September 1897, Edinburgh, Scotland) was hymn writer, translator of German hymns and a noble supporter of home and foreign missions. She published under the pseudonym: H. L. L. (Hymns fro ...
Gerard Moultrie
Gerald Moultrie was a Victorian public schoolmaster and Anglican hymnographer born on 16 September 1829 in Rugby Rectory, Warwickshire, England. He died on 25 April 1885 in Southleigh, England, aged 55.
Biography
His father, John Moultrie was al ...
(1867)
* the ''People's Hymnal'' (
Richard Frederick Littledale
Richard Frederick Littledale (1833–1890) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer.
Life
The fourth son of John Littledale, an auctioneer, he was born in Dublin on 14 September 1833. On 15 October 1850 he entered Trinity College Dublin, was elec ...
Christopher Wordsworth
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Wordsworth was born in London, the youngest son of Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity, who was the youngest b ...
And some hymns were provided by:
*
William Hiley Bathurst
William H. Bathurst (28 August 1796 – 25 November 1877) was an Anglican clergyman and hymnist.
William Hiley Bathurst was the son of the Rt. Hon. Charles Bragge. He was born at Cleve Dale, Mangotsfield, near Bristol on 28 August 1796. His mo ...
*
Horatius Bonar
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John Keble
John Keble (25 April 1792 – 29 March 1866) was an English Anglican priest and poet who was one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Keble College, Oxford, was named after him.
Early life
Keble was born on 25 April 1792 in Fairford, Glouces ...
(leader of the
Oxford Movement
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)
*
John Henry Newman
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(leader of the
Oxford Movement
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Hymns Ancient and Modern
''Hymns Ancient and Modern'' is a hymnal in common use within the Church of England, a result of the efforts of the Oxford Movement. The hymnal was first published in 1861. The organization publishing it has now been formed into a charitable ...
, which first appeared in 1861, a comparable set of hymn-books and individual hymns was used to compile the ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches''. A difference lays in the alterations towards
premillennialism
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and the contribution of original hymns phrasing catholic apostolic thought, mainly provided by Edward Wilton Eddis. Four of Eddis' hymns were taken fro ''The Time of The End, And Other Poems'' (1851) and appeared in the ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches'' in an abbreviated and/or altered form:
* Thou givest us the Bread of Life
* Tis not by power or might
* Thou know’st our sorrows
* It is not yet the glory-day
Only some of Eddis' hymns are found in other hymnbooks such as ''O brightness of the Immortal Father's Face'' (translation from Greek)''In us the hope of glory'' an ''Thou Standest at the Altar'' Besides Edward Wilton Eddis, also other writers provided hymn texts. Some of them only appended their initials to their newly written hymns and translations, as they declined to give their name to the public. The initials of those contributors were: C., C.E., C.E.E., E., E.E., E.H., E.S., E.O., F.R., F.F., F.W., H., J.E.L., L., L.E.L., L.W., M.E.A., M.S., R.F.L. and S.A. For some it is known to which persons these initials correspond:
* E.E.: Ellen Eddis-Shepherd, E.W. Eddis' wife
* E.H.: Eliza Heath (1830–1905), probably member of the Catholic Apostolic Church as she was the sister o Edward Heath (1845–1929), apostles' coadjutor, and Herbert Heath (1849–1932), angel in the Catholic Apostolic Church
* E., C.E. and C.E.E. seem to indicate members of his family; given the initials C.E. and C.E.E. probably refer to Clementia Esther Eddis
* E.O. Edward Osler? Edward Osler contributed another hymn
* F.F. member of the Catholic Apostolic Church
* J.E.L. member of the Catholic Church later in life. For many years, she was active in the Catholic Apostolic Church and she contributed nine hymns and translations to the ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches''.
* L.:
Richard Frederick Littledale
Richard Frederick Littledale (1833–1890) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer.
Life
The fourth son of John Littledale, an auctioneer, he was born in Dublin on 14 September 1833. On 15 October 1850 he entered Trinity College Dublin, was elec ...
(1833–1890)
* L.E.L.:
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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The writings of Landon are transitional between Romanticism and the Victorian Age. Her first major breakthrough ...
* R.F.L.:
Richard Frederick Littledale
Richard Frederick Littledale (1833–1890) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer.
Life
The fourth son of John Littledale, an auctioneer, he was born in Dublin on 14 September 1833. On 15 October 1850 he entered Trinity College Dublin, was elec ...
(1833–1890), a close friend to
John Mason Neale
John Mason Neale (24 January 1818 – 6 August 1866) was an English Anglican priest, scholar and hymnwriter. He worked and wrote on a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most ...
The ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches'' contained a series of hymns translated from Greek and Latin. As such, this was a custom that was practiced in the
Oxford Movement
The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of O ...
as well. From
John Mason Neale
John Mason Neale (24 January 1818 – 6 August 1866) was an English Anglican priest, scholar and hymnwriter. He worked and wrote on a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most ...
, who was affected by the Oxford Movement, 16 translations were included in the second edition of the ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches''. Much Catholic Apostolic teaching reflects the revival of catholic tradition within the Anglican Church, largely initiated by the parallel
Oxford Movement
The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of O ...
, though it is difficult to determine the precise extent of direct influence of one upon the other – Columba Graham Flegg suggests that this was slighter than often supposed.
The ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches'', however, only provided hymntexts, no music. In 1872,
Edmund Hart Turpin
Edmund Hart Turpin (4 May 1835, Nottingham – 25 October 1907, Middlesex) was an organist, composer, writer and choir leader based in Nottingham and London.
Life
Edmund Hart Turpin was born into a musical family that ran a dealership in musica ...
, organist of the central church on Gordon Square, helped to bridge this gap by publishing the ''Hymn Tunes''. For each of the 320 hymns in the 1871 edition of the Hymns for the Use of the Churches it contains a tune without the lyrics.Edmund Hart Turpin, ''Hymn Tunes'', 1939 Furthermore, it provides four metrical chants, one of which was written by
Edmund Hart Turpin
Edmund Hart Turpin (4 May 1835, Nottingham – 25 October 1907, Middlesex) was an organist, composer, writer and choir leader based in Nottingham and London.
Life
Edmund Hart Turpin was born into a musical family that ran a dealership in musica ...
. Most of the hymn tunes were taken from other hymnbooks such as the
Hymns Ancient and Modern
''Hymns Ancient and Modern'' is a hymnal in common use within the Church of England, a result of the efforts of the Oxford Movement. The hymnal was first published in 1861. The organization publishing it has now been formed into a charitable ...
. In total 39 tunes were newly written by
Edmund Hart Turpin
Edmund Hart Turpin (4 May 1835, Nottingham – 25 October 1907, Middlesex) was an organist, composer, writer and choir leader based in Nottingham and London.
Life
Edmund Hart Turpin was born into a musical family that ran a dealership in musica ...
. The musical style of the ''Hymn Tunes'' is comparable to that of the
Hymns Ancient and Modern
''Hymns Ancient and Modern'' is a hymnal in common use within the Church of England, a result of the efforts of the Oxford Movement. The hymnal was first published in 1861. The organization publishing it has now been formed into a charitable ...
, the famous hymnal which resulted out of the
Oxford Movement
The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of O ...
in 1861. A comparison of the ''Hymn tunes'' with the ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches'' shows that most of these new tunes were to support the hymns of Edward Wilton Eddis.
Books
''The Time of The End, And Other Poems'' (1851) * ''The True Revival of the Church of Christ, and her hope in the last days. A letter, addressed to a Clergyman, with reference to a book entitled "The New Apostles"'', Bosworth & Harrison (1860)
* ''Hymns for the Use of the Churches'': first edition in 1864 published by Bosworth & Harrison in London second edition published in 1871 by J. Strangeways in London third edition published by Chiswick Press, London in 1875, fourth edition published by T. Bosworth in 1883, a fifth edition in 1884, the 9th edition in 1898 and the 17th edition by Chiswick Press in 1900. The edition of 1900 was numbered differently than the earlier editions.Columba Graham Flegg, ''Gathered under Apostles: A Study of the Catholic Apostolic Church'', 1992, p. 221-222
* ''The Log of Yorkshire: a narrative poem, covering the voyage from England to Australia of the Yorkshire from 4 December 1873 to 23 February 1874'' (1874)
Hymns and translations
In th second edition of the Hymns for the Use of the Churches (1871) as well as the third edition of 1875, the following hymns and translations of E.W. Eddis were published:
Hymns
* Almighty Father, let Thy love (1863)
* Angel of God, true Numberer, great High Priest (1868)
* Be present, O our Saviour, in this shrine (1864)
* Blessed are they that wait for Him (1851)
* Come, ever-blessed Lord: Thy hand is sealing (1868)
* Eye hath not seen Thy glory; Thou alone (1868)
* Father of lights, Almighty! Thine alone (1868)
* Father, Thy Holy Name be blest (1851)
* First-born of all creation (1868)
* First must Thy Name be 'Jesus' (1863)
* Fountain of life and honour, oh! Inspire (1868)
* From Thine eternal temple (1868)
* Grant unto us, O Lamb of God, to be (1863)
* High Priest of God, whose blessing (1868)
In Us the Hope of Glory (1863) * It is nog yet the glory-day (1851)
* Jesu! Eternal Shepherd, by Thy rod (1868)
* Jeus, our Prince and Saviour (1868)
* Lord Jesu Christ, Thou standest (1868)
* Lord of the bounteous harvest! (1863)
* O fill us, Lord of life and love (1868)
* O God of God, our Saviour (1868)
* O Infinite Creator (1868)
* O Jesu! Rock of Zion (1863)
* O King of peace, who standest (1868)
* O merciful High Priest! Thine almond rod (1868)
* O merciful Redeemer, Thou hast worn (1868)
* O Saviour, Thine elect and early sheaf (1868)
* O Saviour! Though the darkness (1868)
* Once from the throne Thou camest forth (1868)
Our sins, our sorrows, Lord, were laid on Thee (1863) * Shepherd of Israel, still dost Thou abide (1863)
* Six month with myrrh for cleansing (1863)
* Spirit of Christ, Thou speakest (1868)
* Still in the days of famine (1865)
* Still in Thy quiet garden (1868)
* Strangers and pilgrims, O ascended Lord (1868)
* Suffer the little ones to come (1851)
* The doors are shut: from earthly fear and strife (1868)
* The Dove from heaven went forth alone (1868)
* The Lamb is slain! And on the holy door (1868)
* The silent veil was o’er Thee: thirty years (1868)
* The voices of the morning! (1868)
* There is a fire in Zion (1863)
* Thine angels sang rejoicing at Thy birth (1868)
* Thine is the living shield, the sword of light (1871)
* Thine is the vein for silver (1868)
* Thou givest us the Bread of Life (1849)
* Thou in Thy holy mountain (1868)
* Thou know’st our sorrows (1851)
''Thou Standest at the Altar'' (1863) * Thou wast the Morning Lamb, Lord Jesu Christ (1863)
* Thou wentest forth with weeping (1868)
* Thy grave, Almighty Father (1869)
* Thy hand alone can write (1868)
* Thy throne is set in heaven (1863)
* Thye work was sorrow: Thou hast borne alone (1868)
* Tis not by power or might (1863)
* Write Thy Father’s Name upon us (1863)
Translations
* O Blest Creator of the stars (1863): translation of ''Creator alme siderum''
''O brightness of the Immortal Father's Face'' (translation from Greek) * O holy, holy, Feast of life Divine (1869): translation of ''O sacrum, sacrum convivium''