_THE TUNE._

There is no certainty as to the original tune of Theodulph's Hymn, or
how long it survived, but various modern composers have given it music
in more or less keeping with its character, notably Melchior Teschner,
whose harmony, "St. Theodulph," appears in the new _Methodist Hymnal_.
It well represents the march of the bishop's Latin.

Melchior Teschner, a Prussian musician, was Precentor at Frauenstadt,
Silesia, about 1613.


"ALL PRAISE TO THEE, ETERNAL LORD."
_Gelobet Seist du Jesu Christ._

This introductory hymn of worship, a favorite Christmas hymn in Germany,
is ancient, and appears to be a versification of a Latin prose
"Sequence" variously ascribed to a 9th century author, and to Gregory
the Great in the 6th century. Its German form is still credited to
Luther in most hymnals. Julian gives an earlier German form (1370) of
the "Gelobet," but attributes all but the first stanza to Luther, as the
hymn now stands. The following translation, printed first in the
_Sabbath Hymn Book_, Andover, 1858, is the one adopted by Schaff in his
_Christ in Song_:

All praise to Thee, eternal Lord,
Clothed in the garb of flesh and blood;
Choosing a manger for Thy throne,
While worlds on worlds are Thine alone!