ST. THOMAS is actually lines 5 through 8 of the sixteen-line tune HOLBORN, composed by Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) and published in his Collection (1763, 1765) as a setting for Charles Wesley's text "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (570). The harmonization is by Lowell Maso…
Lowell Mason (PHH 96) arranged DENNIS and first published it in The Psaltery (1845), a hymnal he compiled with George. Webb (PHH 559). Mason attributed the tune to Johann G. Nageli (b. Wetzikon, near Zurich, Switzerland, 1773; d. Wetzikon, 1836) but included no source reference. Nageli presumably pu…
Display Title: In Every Trying HourFirst Line: In every trying hourTune Title: DENNISAuthor: John Killinghall, -1740Meter: SMSource: Life of Faith Exemplified and Recommended in a Letter Found in the Study of the Rev. Joseph Belcher, Late of Dedham, New England (London: 1741)