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All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name

Author: Rev. E. Perronet Appears in 3,425 hymnals Topics: Familiar Hymns Used With Tune: CORONATION

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow

Appears in 1,226 hymnals Topics: Familiar Hymns Used With Tune: SESSIONS

Author: S. Baring-Gould Appears in 1,796 hymnals Topics: Familiar Hymns First Line: Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war Refrain First Line: Onward, Christian soldiers Used With Tune: [Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war]

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[Savior, like a shepherd lead us]

Appears in 491 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. B. Bradbury Topics: Familiar Hymns Incipit: 33323 45153 23465 Used With Text: Savior, Like a Shepherd

GOUNOD

Appears in 156 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Francois Gounod Topics: Familiar Hymns Incipit: 11132 17153 33543 Used With Text: Savior, Now the Day is Ending

[I love to tell the story]

Appears in 602 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. G. Fischer Topics: Familiar Hymns Incipit: 51551 32111 62165 Used With Text: I Love to Tell the Story

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Missionary Hymn

Hymnal: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 #208 (1903) Topics: Familiar Hymns First Line: From Greenland's icy mountains Languages: English Tune Title: [From Greenland's icy mountains]

Come, Thou Almighty King

Author: Charles Wesley Hymnal: Sunday School Voices #163 (1910) Topics: Familiar Hymns Languages: English Tune Title: ITALIAN HYMN

From Greenland's Icy Mountains

Author: R. Heber Hymnal: World-Wide Hosannas #167 (1904) Topics: Familiar Hymns Languages: English Tune Title: MISSIONARY HYMN

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Charles C. Converse

1832 - 1918 Person Name: C. C. Converse Topics: Familiar Hymns Composer of "[What a friend we have in Jesus]" in Sunday School Hymns No. 1 Pseudonyms: Clare, Lester Vesé, Nevers, Karl Reden, Revons ================================= Charles Crozat Converse LLD USA 1832-1918. Born in Warren, MA, he went to Leipzig, Germany to study law and philosophy, as well as music theory and composition under Moritz Hauptmann, Friedrich Richter, and Louis Plaidy at the Leipzig Conservatory. He also met Franz Liszt and Louis Spohr. He became an author, composer, arranger and editor. He returned to the states in 1859 and graduated from the Albany, NY, Law School two years later. He married Lida Lewis. From 1875 he practiced law in Erie, PA, and also was put in charge of the Burdetta Organ Company. He composed hymn tunes and other works. He was offered a DM degree for his Psalm 126 cantata, but he declined the offer. In 1895 Rutherford College honored him with a LLD degree. He spent his last years in Highwood, NJ, where he died. He published “New method for the guitar”, “Musical bouquet”, “The 126th Psalm”, “Sweet singer”, “Church singer”, “Sayings of Sages” between 1855 and 1863. he also wrote the “Turkish battle polka” and “Rock beside the sea” ballad, and “The anthem book of the Episcopal Methodist Church”. John Perry

William Henry Monk

1823 - 1889 Person Name: W. H. Monk Topics: Familiar Hymns Composer of "HURSLEY" in Sunday School Hymns No. 1 William H. Monk (b. Brompton, London, England, 1823; d. London, 1889) is best known for his music editing of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861, 1868; 1875, and 1889 editions). He also adapted music from plainsong and added accompaniments for Introits for Use Throughout the Year, a book issued with that famous hymnal. Beginning in his teenage years, Monk held a number of musical positions. He became choirmaster at King's College in London in 1847 and was organist and choirmaster at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington, from 1852 to 1889, where he was influenced by the Oxford Movement. At St. Matthias, Monk also began daily choral services with the choir leading the congregation in music chosen according to the church year, including psalms chanted to plainsong. He composed over fifty hymn tunes and edited The Scottish Hymnal (1872 edition) and Wordsworth's Hymns for the Holy Year (1862) as well as the periodical Parish Choir (1840-1851). Bert Polman

E. Prentiss

1818 - 1878 Person Name: Mrs. Elizabeth P. Prentiss Topics: Familiar Hymns Author of "More Love to Thee" in Sunday School Hymns No. 1 Elizabeth Payson Prentiss USA 1818-1878. Born at Portland, ME, 5th child of Congregationalist minister, Edward Payson. He died of tuberculosis in 1827, and the family moved to New York City in 1831. That year she professed faith in Christ and joined the Bleeker Street Presbyterian Church. She possessed keen abilities, including sympathy and perceptiveness. She began writing stories and poems, and contributed her works to “The youth’s companion”, a New England religious periodical. In 1838 she opened a small girls’ school in her home and took up a Sabbath-school class as well. Two years later, she moved to Richmond, VA, to be a department head at a girls’ boarding school. In 1845 she married George Lewis Prentiss, a brother of her close friend, Anna Prentiss Stearns. The Prentisses settled in New Bedford, MA, where George became pastor of South Trinitarian Church. In 1851 George became pastor of Mercer St Presbyterian Church in New York City. After a happy period in life, by 1852 she had lost two of her three children, one as a newborn, one at age four. However, she went on to have three more healthy children, despite her poor health. She wrote her first book of stories, published in 1853. In 1856 she penned her famous hymn lyrics (noted below) after she nearly lost her daughter, Minnie, to an illness. After George resigned from his church due to failing health, the family went abroad for a couple of years. In 1860 they returned to NY, where George resumed his pastorate and held a chair at Union Theological Seminary. She published her most popular book, “Stepping heavenward” in 1869, furnishing it in installments to ‘Chicago Advance’. The family evenually settled in Dorset, VT, where she died. After her death, her husband published “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss” in 1882. The family children were: Annie, Eddy, Bessie, Minnie, George, and Henry. John Perry ================ Prentiss, Elizabeth, née Payson, youngest daughter of Dr. Edward Payson, was born at Portland, Maine, Oct. 26, 1818; married to George Lewis Prentiss, D.D., then at Bedford, Massachusetts, April, 1845; and died at Dorset, Vermont, Aug. 13, 1878. Her Life and Letters by her husband appeared some time after. Dr. Prentiss removed from Bedford to New York in 1851, and was appointed Professor of Pastoral Theology at Union Seminary, New York, 1873. Mrs. Prentiss's works include The Flower of the Family; Stepping Heavenward, 1869; and Religious Poems, 1873. Of her hymns the two following are most widely known:— 1. As on a vast eternal shore Thanksgiving. Contributed to Schaff's Christ in Song, 1869. 2. More love to Thee, 0 Christ. More Love to Christ desired. Written in 1869, and first printed on a fly-sheet; then in Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, N. Y., 1872. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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