O God, unseen, but ever near, Our blessed rest art Thou

O God, unseen, but ever near, Our blessed rest art Thou

Author: Samuel Longfellow
Published in 12 hymnals

Author: Samuel Longfellow

Longfellow, Samuel, B. A., brother of the Poet, was born at Portland, Maine, June 18, 1819, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in Arts in 1839, and in Theology in 1846. On receiving ordination as an Unitarian Minister, he became Pastor at Fall River, Massachusetts, 1848; at Brooklyn, 1853; and at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1860. In 1846 he edited, with the Rev. S. Johnson (q. v.), A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. This collection was enlarged and revised in 1848. In 1859 his Vespers was published, and in 1864 the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit , under the joint editorship of the Rev. S. Johnson and himself. His Life of his brother, the Poet Longfellow, was published in 1886. To the works named he contributed the follow… Go to person page >

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First Line: O God, unseen, but ever near, Our blessed rest art Thou
Author: Samuel Longfellow
Language: English

Tune

GREEN HILL (Peace)


ST. AGNES (Dykes)

John B. Dykes (PHH 147) composed ST. AGNES for [Jesus the Very Thought of Thee]. Dykes named the tune after a young Roman Christian woman who was martyred in A.D. 304 during the reign of Diocletian. St. Agnes was sentenced to death for refusing to marry a nobleman to whom she said, "I am already eng…

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MEDITATION (Gower)


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Instances

Instances (1 - 12 of 12)
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Common Praise #617

Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home and Services for Congregational Worship. Rev. ed. #d485

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Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home. (Rev. ed.) #241

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Hymnal Amore Dei #247

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Hymnal, Amore Dei #247

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Hymnal, Amore Dei. Rev. ed. #a247

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Isles of Shoals Hymn Book and Candle Light Service #136

Jubilate Deo #173

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Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book #475

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The Golden Hymn Book #159

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The Pilgrim Hymnal #362

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The Pilgrim Hymnal #264

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