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Convention Hymns Selected from Sunday School Melodies

Publication Date: 1915 Publisher: Tullar Meredith Co. Publication Place: New York Editors: Tullar Meredith Co.

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Tell the blessed story

Author: Josie Wallace Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: There's a blessed, blessed story Refrain First Line: Then tell, tell
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Take my life, and let it be, consecrated

Author: Frances Ridley Havergal Appears in 1,218 hymnals

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A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Hymnal: CHSS1915 #d1 (1915) Languages: English

The Spirit and Bride say come

Author: Grant Colfax Tullar Hymnal: CHSS1915 #d2 (1915) First Line: A glorious invitation now calls you Refrain First Line: The Spirit says come Languages: English

Join the reapers' band

Author: Grant Colfax Tullar Hymnal: CHSS1915 #d3 (1915) First Line: A happy band of reapers Refrain First Line: O join then the reaper's band Languages: English

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Katharine Lee Bates

1859 - 1929 Person Name: Katherine Lee Bates Hymnal Number: d42 Author of "O beautiful for spacious skies" in Convention Hymns Selected from Sunday School Melodies Katharine Lee Bates was born in Falmouth, Mass., August 12, 1859. Her father was a pastor in the Congregational Church; he died when she was an infant. Her mother moved the family to Wellesley. She received a B.A. (1880) and M.A. (1891) from Wellesley College. She taught high school from 1880-1885 and then was a professor of English literature at Wellesley. She wrote poetry, children's stories, textbooks and travel books. In the summer if 1893 when she was lecturing at Colorado College she went to the top of Pike's Peak. Inspired by the beauty of the view she wrote all four verses of "America the Beautiful" which was an instant hit when it was published. She had an intimate relationship with Katharine Coman, dean of Wellesley, who she lived with for 25 years, until Coman's death. "Yellow Clover: A Book of Remembrance" celebrates their love and partnership.She enjoyed traveling, the out of doors, reading and friends, Dianne Shapiro from Woman's Who's who in America, 1914-1915 by John William Leonard, New York: The American Commonwealth Company and Harvard Square Library, Digital Library of Unitarian Universalist Biographies, History, Books and Media (http://harvardsquarelibrary.org/cambridge-harvard/katharine-lee-bates/) (accessed 7-4-2018

Edward S. Ufford

1851 - 1929 Hymnal Number: d19 Author of "When I felt the heavenly sunlight" in Convention Hymns Selected from Sunday School Melodies

Joseph Medlicott Scriven

1819 - 1886 Person Name: Joseph Scriven Hymnal Number: d70 Author of "What a friend we have in Jesus" in Convention Hymns Selected from Sunday School Melodies Joseph M. Scriven (b. Seapatrick, County Down, Ireland, 1819; d. Bewdley, Rice Lake, ON, Canada, 1886), an Irish immigrant to Canada, wrote this text near Port Hope, Ontario, in 1855. Because his life was filled with grief and trials, Scriven often needed the solace of the Lord as described in his famous hymn. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, he enrolled in a military college to prepare for an army career. However, poor health forced him to give up that ambition. Soon after came a second blow—his fiancée died in a drowning accident on the eve of their wedding in 1844. Later that year he moved to Ontario, where he taught school in Woodstock and Brantford. His plans for marriage were dashed again when his new bride-to-be died after a short illness in 1855. Following this calamity Scriven seldom had a regular income, and he was forced to live in the homes of others. He also experienced mistrust from neighbors who did not appreciate his eccentricities or his work with the underprivileged. A member of the Plymouth Brethren, he tried to live according to the Sermon on the Mount as literally as possible, giving and sharing all he had and often doing menial tasks for the poor and physically disabled. Because Scriven suffered from depression, no one knew if his death by drowning in Rice Lake was suicide or an accident. Bert Polman ================ Scriven, Joseph. Mr. Sankey, in his My Life and Sacred Songs, 1906, p. 279, says that Scriven was b. in Dublin in 1820, was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and went to Canada when he was 25, and died there at Port Hope, on Lake Ontario, in 1886. His hymn:— What a Friend we have in Jesus. [Jesus our Friend] was, according to Mr. Sankey, discovered to be his in the following manner: "A neighbour, sitting up with him in his illness, happened upon a manuscript of 'What a Friend we have in Jesus.' Reading it with great delight, and questioning Mr. Scriven about it, he said he had composed it for his mother, to comfort her in a time of special sorrow, not intending any one else should see it." We find the hymn in H. 1... Hastings's Social Hymns, Original and Selected, 1865, No. 242; and his Song of Pilgrimage, 1886, No. 1291, where it is attributed to "Joseph Scriven, cir. 1855." It is found in many modern collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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