317 For All the Saints
William W. How, 1823-97
The original, in eleven stanzas, was published in 1864 in Hymns for Saints’ Days, by a layman, Lord Nelson. One of the omitted stanzas reads:
For the Apostles’ glorious company
Who, bearing forth the Cross o’er land and sea,
Shook all the mighty world, we sing to Thee.
For comments on William How see Hymn 144.
MUSIC. SARUM. The tune was composed for the Sarum Hymnal, 1869, for these words by Bishop How. It is also known as “St. Philip” and “For All the Saints.”
For comments on the composer, Joseph Barnby, see Hymn 21.