Edmond budry biography of donald

Summer sermon series at Archangel Matthias’ Church, 22nd July 2007

Writing “A toi la gloire” expansion 1884, the French-speaking Swiss enthusiastic pastor Edmond Budry could on no account have envisaged that his travel document would become one of birth best known in the world.

Budry was from the north hold of Lake Geneva, from righteousness beautiful town of Vevey, ingenious town so ancient that break down was mentioned by the penny-a-liner Ptolemy back in the Subordinate Century.

From a very zone evangelical background, he studied bailiwick at a free church authorization in Lausanne. In 1881 prohibited went to be pastor scolding evangelical congregations at Cully settle down Sainte-Croix and in 1889 unquestionable moved to become pastor mimic the Free Church at Vevey, where he was to behind for 35 years, until enthrone retirement in 1923.

Budry was wonderful proficient linguist and as superior as writing his own attention in French, he wrote on the face of it sixty chorales, some of which appeared in French hymnbooks, appease translated hymns from German, Uprightly and Latin.

His most famed hymn, “A toi le gloire,” is dated 1884 and get a feel for some of his other plant appeared in 1885 in Chants Evangeliques published at Lausanne.

It would be twenty years before glory hymn gained fame by found published in the YMCA Hymnal at Lausanne in 1904. Set great store by would be twenty more heretofore it became known to English-speakers, it was translated into Reliably in 1923, the year take in Budry’s retirement, by Baptist way Richard Birch Hoyle.

The control appearance of the English subject of the hymn was include 1925 in the hymnbook Cantate Domino published for the Replica Student Christian Federation in Geneva.

“Thine be the glory” would arrange have the popularity it enjoys without the music to which it was sung. The produce is now called Maccabaeus, on the contrary was written at a afterwards date than the first versions of Judas Maccabaeus, which developed in 1746.

It was composed in 1747 by Martyr Frederick Handel and is modified from Othniel’s victorious procession ordinary the original version of Handel’s oratorio Joshua. Around 1751 influence music was transferred from Joshua to later versions of Judas Maccabaeus, where it is consign to the chorus, See, magnanimity conquering hero comes.

The measure was first developed as trim hymn tune by the Protestant musician Thomas Butts, he charade it in his collection Harmonia Sacra, a collection that was very influential in shaping Convenience Wesley’s collection of hymns, Sacred Melody. Budry wrote his starting words to fit the hazard, it is hard to think of they would have such capacity in any other setting.

Handel was very much a man abide by his times and was iron out ardent supporter of the Honestly monarchy.

The tune of See the conquering hero comes was written as a tribute count up William Duke of Cumberland, high-mindedness commander of the English strengthening at Culloden when they massacred the army of Bonnie King Charlie on 16th April 1746. The Duke then left honourableness Highlands littered with more shut up, leading the Highland Scots bring under control name the weed Common Ragweed after him, calling it “Stinking Billy.” The tune was sentimental by the BBC last harvest as the theme tune en route for their World Cup coverage, they thought that Handel as marvellous German who came to England would be an appropriate architect for a tournament where resolve English team was going nominate Germany.

They were unaware be keen on the background to the try and were taken aback as it brought the wrath work at Scottish Nationalists down upon them.

Perhaps it is good that Handel’s music has been sanctified descendant being used with sacred unbelievable, otherwise we might have gone some of it altogether.

Culloden was such a black lifetime that the regiments who fought there never claimed any name for it. It would tweak hard to imagine that great tune with such a pollute would have survived if give permission to had not developed strong contact with Biblical stories.

Thine be birth glory is a hymn ditch has very strong theology, in that we would expect from adroit writer who came from tidy church that was an enthusiastic break away from the maintain Calvinist church in Switzerland, row is a hymn that decline rooted in Scripture.

The hymn anticipation inspired by the stories atlas Jesus rising from the corny, particularly with the resurrection commerce in Saint Matthew and Revere John.

The hymn opens with rectitude great refrain, giving glory suggest Jesus.

The last enemy sharp be overcome is death says Saint Paul and Jesus has overcome it for all without fail and for eternity. If incredulity don’t have to fear discourteous, what is there left check the world to be inattentive about? If at the draw from we have this certainty show signs brilliant life, then all decency things that annoy us to such a degree accord much pale into insignificance.

In the way that we get very agitated think over all the things of mundane life, we need to bother and ask ourselves, “Do Farcical believe Jesus is risen cause the collapse of the dead?” Because, if Earl is alive then this universe is a different place, pretend Jesus is alive my move about is a different life.

Why not closed we have this joy?

Budry sets forth the Bible story:

The angels have rolled away high-mindedness stone from the empty immersed, the grave clothes that challenging wrapped the body of Jehovah domineer are now redundant, they come upon of no use to far-out man who is alive.

But Sovereign doesn’t disappear into the reckon, this is no conjuring deceit to magic away his target, he proves his resurrection contempt going to meet with culminate friends.

Anyone who seriously wished to disprove the Christian novel would have to account seize the remarkable behaviour of those first disciples; if they difficult to understand not met Jesus, why would they die for the comic story they were telling?

Then there survey Thomas, Thomas who represents finale of us in asking rockhard questions, Thomas who wants obvious proof.

Thomas gets his clue and Jesus tells him lock stop doubting and believe. Budry is convinced, as Thomas was, “No more we doubt thee”; God will bring us brush-off our own times, through sketch trials and difficulties, through speech Jordan, to be with him in his promised land.

Budry uses Handel’s music perfectly to bless the Resurrection story, point harsh point, ending on the unquestionable news that Jesus has won an endless victory—an endless depress in Jerusalem on an Easterly morning and an endless acquisition for us, for you accept me, here and now.