All Things Bright and Beautiful hymn - story behind the hymn 

Thank you for sharing the story of this beautiful hymn. I sing in a church and we are blessed to be learning and performing this song for the first time. I have never heard it before. I’m 55 years old and live in Denmark 🇩🇰

“The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.” - Proverbs 22:2 (KJV) “The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.” - 1 Samuel 2:7 (KJV)

Blessings! We are delighted that you too share the love for birds. Its very dear to our hearts.

I am now 81 years of age and I still play the organ

I share the organ duties at church and it is indeed sad that it is never chosen. It will always be dear to me and the next time I play I shall certainly play it as a prelude.

Starting again! I first learned this Hymn in a C of E primary School at the age of five. I last heard it 20 years ago at my aunt's funeral. We certainly sang the verse the Rich man in his castle the poor man at his gate, and auto I am 81 I remember the words as though yesterday.

What a refreshing 16 minutes or so you provided me this morning! Thank you very much for the background information and for your beautiful performance of this lovely song.

Cecil Frances alexander wrote this Hymn here in my home town of Strabane Co.Tyrone in 1847 at Milltown House and was published the following spring 1848 in Hymns for little children.

I learnt it at Saboath School that's Fanny! Oh how beautiful.🤗👣🎶👐👍🇹🇹🇹🇹🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Seventh Day Adventist Church .

This song just shouts the wonder and beauty of our God, just so uplifting

This is an absolutely delightful hymn. I agree with you about the verses talking about the rich and poor. The line about the evening sunset and rising morning are in the right order. In Genesis chapter 1 God says, "And evening passed and morning came marking the first day." He says the same words during the whole process of His creation in that order.

Everytime I watched nor hear this song,it brings tears in my heart. I miss my father.

Around 1965 I took part on a recording of this hymn in an album called "Songs for Little Children" with the Salvation Army Sunbury Junior Singers. We met in the summer at Sunbury Court in Sunbury on Thames in London. The recording was released on the EMI "Music for Pleasure" label. We recorded at the studios in Abbey Road in London An interesting point is that the Beatles were in the next studio recording. We were a choir of around 100 girl who were very much envied by screaming Beatle fans outside the studios who were not allowed past the railings. We already knew the song because we would sing it all the time at church and school. We loved the arrangement that Joy did for us with a very catchy descant. I love the "forbidden" verse but have to admit we did not use it on the recording. You can find the recording on RU-vid. You sang it beautifully.

It takes me back to school and Sunday school ❤how simplicity is this song and yet so powerful, God breathed 😮

I remember so well singing this at school 70 years ago. I often sing it by myself when I look at His wonderful creation.surely we serve a mighty God who made a beautiful world.

All things bright and beautiful Expressing The awesome wonder of Gods Majestic Handiwork Us the most lovely Christ the choice The most gracious Have a lovely Friday Humming Singing Praising Thank you Luke for helping us Be even more inspired To notice Gods love for ALL😊

When this blessed soul wrote, "The LORD God made them all" it means, " Ye-Ho-Va-H God made them all."

I love all of her hymns. Especially, There is a green hill. He died to save us all. Amen.

I have sang this song so many times over the years. I remember singing it as child & I am 54. Thank you for the history of the songs. I am enjoying them.

I had only heard this as a poem.....and the tune in my hymnbook is different....but I live in US....😂...it is a truly precious story of a life lived well and a sweet hymn for those with child-like faith!!

Gods creation is very beautiful Every word, every line tells us about every day God gives us to see We must Thank God for this every day

Thank you Luke, what a blessing! Your love for the Lord is very apparent. God bless you! Sabbath blessings to you.

I really appreciate your commentaries and your singing. Thank you.

❤I have always loved this hymn. I first remember singing it Sunday School when I was 4 years old. I always thought that the “purple headed mountains “ referred to our Blue Mountains here in NSW, Australia. Nature is remarkable. So many species. I love them all …..well…I DON’T like cockroaches 😂

The forbidden verse brought to my mind the story of Lazarus at the rich man’s gate.

We sang this beautiful song at my husband's funeral as he loved it so much.

That was was so lovely thank you

Beautiful ✝️🛐💜thank you!

Thank you for all your hard work and your piano playing is very blessed by our Dear Lord....all glory and honor and praise to Him for blessing us with these wonderful gifts

In the U.S. we have a little different tune for this song, so it was a delight to hear a different one. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing the history of the hymn. In my faith journey I started going to a nondenominational church for the first 10 years, you know the one with the smoke machines and coffee shop? It was a great starting point. Now for the past year I have made my home with a traditional Presbyterian Church and learning this style. Sure this new church is traditional, but God’s presence is certainly here. I sang this song about 6 months ago and it really captivated me. But I forgot the name of it until I was watching a movie in which their was a church scene singing this song. I immediately searched and came across you lovely monologue and performance. Thank you. The controversial section of the hymn where it that verse was censored, people sure act weird about something they are afraid of, this is my interpretation: The story was about the rich man with no name, and a poor man who is sick and named Lazarus asking for help at the rich man’s gate. The rich man never helped. Both died and they met again in spirit with a great void was between the both of them. The poor man was now rich in the Lord’s presence (Heaven) while the rich man lost it all in hell. The former rich man called out to poor man for a drop of water to sooth his tongue and to warn the rich man’s family about where he is at. I have to reread and I invite who might be reading this to check out that story. So ultimately the estates of the rich man was hell and for the poor needy man, Heaven. That is my interpretation formed from another story about Jesus coming across the “Rich young Ruler,” who asked Jesus how he can inherit the Kingdom of God. Jesus told him to sell everything and follow Him. But the rich young ruler walked away sad. You know who I believe this is? This could very well be that rich young ruler in the Book of Acts named Saul who ordered the stoning of the first Christian Martyr, Stevan. Thank you, again!

Thankyou for shareing .

Hello my brother in South Africa. We come from that area. Born in Brakpan. If you want to see bird paradise visit us in the Western Cape on the West Coast. Thank you for your videos. I really enjoy them. Jesus is the love of my life. May God greatly bless you..

It is a beautiful hymn remind me of God the Creator and lovely creation!

Lovely video.."the sunset and the morning" is bibically correct...see Genesis ...really enjoyed the whole as it brought back memories. God bless for such a heart touching message. ❤

I have that book, almost all of his books. Lovely person, James Herriot.

Very nice. Thank you.

Love this it's very intresting .thanks you 😇🇬🇧❤️🇮🇱

This is in some British movies too. I can hear the children’s choir in some old black and white movie singing this. I am American but enjoy singing this with an English accent. We had British nuns from Bristol when I was in junior high that taught us good enunciation of our words when singing hymns. They were precious sisters. Love this hymn. One of my mom’s favorites.

What a lovely way to start the day! Thank you Luke!

I do know this lovely hymn. Sang it during my school days in the Anglican Schools that I attended many years ago in Trinidad 🇹🇹. Thank you for these insights. God Bless 🙌

Thanks

When I was a child, we would sing this hymn for the church service. I so enjoy this hymn!!

Yes Once in Royal David's City what a blessing.🤗👍🙏🙏🙏🙏

Yes it should be sung. Let's sing them all. Glory to God for the Mountains. Amen🎶🎶🎶👐🇹🇹🇹🇹👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

We sang it in public school.... back in those days we had Bible readings and sang hymns....

Mr. Luke Powell sorry to tell you she was correct when she said the sunset and the morning, and i quote. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." notice it starts in the evening when the sun sets

I remember singing this hymn at school assembly. Understanding the story behind the hymn now and hearing some of your personal stories you shared, just makes it more bright and beautiful. Thank you Luke I love these Friday hymns. Bless you.

I 've always loved hymns and enjoy finding out more about the hymn writers. I love how you present this. I am sitting here enjoying God's beauty outside in our little tree house and copied in God's beauty

We sang this song at the age of 4 1/2 years at old Observatory Primary School. The teachers took the little children over the rocks and taught us this song. Well since that day I loved this song and Hills and rocks.

What a wonderful beautiful song I sang at Sunday School (Claremont Methodist Church) in tbe 1940's. Being a lover of all creatures great and small this really resonated with me❤

I appreciate it very much the History behind the Song. Thank you, and God bless you.

Love this ❤❤

One of my favourites! Thank you so much. Such a lovely you tube 'place', this. Grateful for the algorithms that made your page pop up in my feed earlier this week!

Evening Luke, indeed what a wonderful hymn this is and speaks of all God's beautiful creation, everything was created by God! I remember this hymn from Sunday school, in fact sang it all through my life. So yes, great hymn and deserves a special memory. Thank you for all the information you have shared on the writer of this hymn, I found it very interesting. God bless you Luke.

Amen😊

Yes Sir Amen Love this hymn❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I love hymns.. Thank you for history on this beautiful hymn♡♡

We sang ALL the verses at school and never thought anything negative about it. I just thought it meant that the rich man could'nt boast and the poor man shouldn't grumble. It doesn't mean ruch should keep their wealth to tgemselves or the poor man cannot aspire to improve hus circumstance.

Now that I've discovered Friday hymns, I start my time with the Lord with you Luke. I always say, "Good morning Luke!" I'm also following your 2 year Bible reading plan! Thank you so much for putting your content out there. I'm from the state of Missouri in the US but I drink Rooibos tea regularly!!! Have a blessed day Luke!

This is my most favourite hymns Luke and will always be. Thank you, God bless you

Hi brother Luke . I found your RU-vid channel today and I subscribed.

Luke I enjoy you share your time learning then sharing what you learned Enjoy you sing every verse Blessings It's Friday 1 12 24 Thankful blessed to be Grateful At this time Blessed to hymns

I want to share the following quote from one author, as it resembles the line that said: The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate. If we will but listen, God's created works will teach us precious lessons of obedience and trust. From the stars that in their trackless courses through space follow from age to age their appointed path, down to the minutest atom, the things of nature obey the Creator's will. And God cares for everything and sustains everything that He has created. He who upholds the unnumbered worlds throughout immensity, at the same time cares for the wants of the little brown sparroźw that sings its humble song without fear. When men go forth to their daily toil, as when they engage in prayer; when they lie down at night, and when they rise in the morning; when the rich man feasts in his palace, or when the poor man gathers his children about the scanty board, each is tenderly watched by the heavenly Father. No tears are shed that God does not notice. There is no smile that He does not mark. If we would but fully believe this, all undue anxieties would be dismissed. Our lives would not be so filled with disappointment as now; for everything, whether great or small, would be left in the hands of God, who is not perplexed by the multiplicity of cares, or overwhelmed by their weight. We should then enjoy a rest of soul to which many have long been strangers. (Steps to Christ p85- 86 by Ellen G. White )

Thank you for telling us about this hymn. There’s a bird I get on my balcony every year around Spring, who just sings so wonderfully.

This makes me think of my daughter, a veterinarian in Ohio US.

We sang this song in Sunday School and love the words which truly cover God's creation. Thank you for the history behind it. I understand what she meant when she wrote about the rich and poor so it is ridiculous to say she promoted class difference.

I was born in England, now live in AZ USA, big difference in temperature, love the song...

Beautiful presentation A little correction if I may, the 2nd verse “…the sunset and the morning”, she didn’t have it in reverse. Rather her lyrics is supported by the Bible. Genesis 1:5,8,13,19 and so on. The a new day begins in the evening ‘sunset’ Be blessed ☺️

I DO wish that people would stop relegating this hymn to children only.

Thank you for sharing the story behind the hymn. I agree with her when she said sunset n the morning. It is Scriptural. In Genesis 1 we see repeatedly 'evening and morning was the...day' We have reversed it to put morning before evening.

These hymns are the best for all seasons, I sang them in Sunday school over 75 years ago. We used the Presbyterian Hymn book, I sing 21 hymns every day except Sunday, I visit my church. 😮😅

Someones Sunset at night is another's Sunrise in the morning.

Thanks!

PS. Great work, discovery of IBUI none the less, it's nice to know.

I remember singing this severally in my Primary School Assembly

I don't want to bore your followers but would like to inform them that as well as All things bright and beautiful, Cecil Frances wrote There is a green hill and one of the most sung Hymns at Christmas time any were in the Christian world Once in Royal Davids City these were all wrote in my town of Strabane at Milltown House during the winter of 1847 and published the following spring 1848 thank you.Gordon.

Would have been interested in more about the home for the Deaf.

I just loved this!!! Can I share this on a ministry RU-vid channel that I’m working?

James Harriot wrote several books that are titled on this. According to Jewish traditions the day is from sunset to sunset. Might be why she pharsed it that way

Awesome voice and great piano playing!

1 Corinthians 7:17 But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk.

I think I can understand why the controversy in the omitted verse. That could have been cured by saying 'He made those high n lowly' rather than 'He made them high n lowly'

I think she got the sunset and the morning right. Genesis 1:5 and the evening and the morning were the first day; so much better also to start a new day when it's light than at midnight when the terrors of the night are most active.

I've often wondered if this hymn would be sung when a church holds the Blessing of the Animals.

The second verse reminds me of the parable of Lazarus sitting at the gate of the rich man & then the change when Lazarus is sitting in the bosom of Abraham. The other later verses are not as familiar so I suspect that we had different words to them. Same as today as I attend a different denomination that I did as a young person & so some words are different & so I have to keep an eye on the words. This song I learnt in the 1950s at Sunday School.

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The biblical day is sunset to sunset...Genesis 1

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School Assembly when in Primary school.

The Holy word says the sunset first then the morning Check Genesis 1. 🌦🎶🌦🇹🇹✋🌻🎶🎶🎶🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

If you confess with your mouth, "Jesus Is Lord" and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9

Na-ah, good Sir Powell. Appears like you paid closer attention at school to your Biology and Music classes than in your English class. But judging by today's standards, you do speak and will spell or write, better English than most of the inhabitants of the UK, in any event. They mostly can't speak their own language properly, (or should i say in Brit speak, 'proper-lay', as they so incorrectly announciate it) & most definitely can't write it or spell it, look at the wording of most pvt. ads on local county advertisers, eBay, Preloved etc. In this instance, it's just the syntax is simply saying, "them both". Poetic license permits her to reverse them, 1) to inspire thought, 2) to awaken the melody of the words. The hour of the birth of this world, I stand to correction, is masked by God as it only mentions the day as that 6th day. So it is humans which decided the day precedes the night. Chicken or the egg? Can it not reasonably be understood, energy for the day can only can only come through the rest achieved in the night and therefore, night does precede daytime. Semantics? No. Biblical. Look to the last words of the 6th day of creation please? I s'pose, it matters not as all knowledge will be revealed in 'the twinkling of an eye', hmm? If only lyrics could be so wholesome today? But, in a world akin to the time of Sodom's sin, theres little chance that such innocence exists. Tsk, tsk!