Jesus name song
In stanza 2 Christ is the "mighty Word" (see John 1:1-4) through whom "creation sprang at once to sight." Stanzas 3 and 4 look back to Christ's humiliation, death, resurrection, and ascension (Phil. Stanza 1 announces the triumph of the ascended Christ to whom "every knee should bow" (Phil. The text is based on the confession of faith that Paul quotes in Philippians 2:6-11, which may well have been an early Christian hymn. The Psalter Hymnal includes stanzas 1, 3-5, and 7-8 of Noel's original eight stanzas. One of the hymns in the 1870 collection was this text (originally beginning "In the Name of Jesus"), designed for use as a processional hymn on Ascension Day. Her poems were collected in The Name of Jesus and Other Verses for the Sick and Lonely (1861, enlarged in 1870). To encourage both herself and others who were ill or incapacitated, Noel began to write devotional verse again. During those years she suffered frequent bouts of illness and eventually became an invalid. The daughter of an Anglican clergyman and hymn writer, she began to write poetry in her late teens but then abandoned it until she was in her forties. Marylebone, London, England, 1877) wrote this spiritually powerful text.