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Holy, Holy, Holy! All the
saints adore Thee, Holy, Holy, Holy! Tho the
darkness hide Thee, Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord, God
Almighty! Isaiah
6: 1-8 Reginald Heber was born in the area of Cheshire, England, of scholarly and well-to-do parents. At the age of seventeen, he entered Oxford University, where his scholarship and literary abilities received much attention. He was ordained to the ministry in the Anglican Church and throughout his ministry was noted as a prolific writer, making frequent contributions to magazines with his poetry, essays, and hymns. In 1823, just three years before his death at the age of forty-three, Heber was sent to India to serve as the Bishop of Calcutta. The pressures of his work along with the humid climate of the area wore heavily upon his health. One morning after preaching to a large outdoor crowd, he suffered an apparent heat stroke and died very suddenly. "Holy, Holy, Holy" was written specifically for use on Trinity Sunday, which occurs eight weeks after Easter. The emphasis of the hymn is to reaffirm the doctrine of the Triune Godhead. Though the word "trinity" is not found in the Scripture, the truth of three Persons, equal and eternal with each other, is clearly taught throughout God's Word. The tune for this text was written by Dr. John Bacchus Dykes. John Dykes was one of England's leading church musicians of the nineteenth century. He wrote more than three hundred hymn tunes. Many of them are still in use today.
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