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Joy to the World

Publication Date: 1879 Publisher: Hitchcock & Walden Publication Place: Cincinnati Editors: Hitchcock & Walden; T. C. O'Kane; C. C. M'Cabe; Jno. R. Sweney

Author: Flora B. Harris Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Above earth's grief and sighing Refrain First Line: All tears, all tears Lyrics: 1 Above earth's grief and sighing, Its want and pain and dying, Look up, and see the glory Prepared for you and me. Chorus: All tears, all tears, God shall wipe away In the full and perfect day; Once forever, Once forever, God shall wipe all tears away. 2 The Lamb himself shall feed us The Lamb himself shall lead us To drink from living fountains, That flow for you and me. [Chorus] 3 No burning sun shall smite us; His glorious face shall light us, The beauty of his presence, It shines for you and me. [Chorus] 4 Though countless hosts before him With rapture-strains adore him, Yet in the mighty choral Are songs for you and me. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [Above earth's grief and sighing]

The Savior's Kingdom

Appears in 1,807 hymnals First Line: Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Lyrics: 1 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Doth his successive journeys run; His kingdom spread from shore to shore, Till moon shall wax and wane no more. 2 From north to south the princes meet To pay their homage at his feet; While western empires own their Lord, And savage tribes attend his word. 3 People and realms of every tongue Dwell on his love with sweetest song, And infant voices shall proclaim Their early blessings on His Name. Used With Tune: DUKE STREET

The Church

Appears in 1,336 hymnals First Line: I love thy kingdom, Lord Lyrics: 1 I love thy king, Lord, The house of thine abode-- The Church our blest Redeemer saved With his own precious blood. 2 I love thy Church, O God! Her walls before thee stand Dear as the apple of thine eye, And graven on thy hand. 3 For her my tears shall fall; For her my prayers ascend; To her my cares and toils be given, Till toils and cares shall end. 4 Sure as thy truth shall last, To Zion shall be given The brightest glories earth can yield, And brighter bliss of heaven. Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS

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Tunes

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[And can it be that I should gain]

Appears in 72 hymnals Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 13212 32123 55565 Used With Text: And can it Be?

[Vain, delusive world, adieu]

Appears in 58 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. Oakley Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 15321 17655 66571 Used With Text: Only Jesus Crucified

[Holy Spirit, faithful Guide]

Appears in 507 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: M. M. Wells Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 55113 21233 517 Used With Text: Guide

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Instances

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The Lord is Come

Author: Watts Hymnal: JW1878 #1 (1879) First Line: Joy to the world! the Lord is come Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come, Let earth receive her king: Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, And heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns; Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, Repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sin and sorrow grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make his blessings flow, Far as the curse is found. Languages: English Tune Title: [Joy to the world! the Lord is come]

Cleft for Me

Author: Fanny Crosby Hymnal: JW1878 #2 (1879) First Line: Mighty Rock, whose towering form Refrain First Line: Unto Thee, unto Thee Lyrics: 1 Mighty Rock, whose towering form Looks above the frowning storm: Rock amid the desert waste, To thy shadow now I haste. Refrain: Unto Thee, unto Thee, Precious Savior, now I flee; "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee." 2 Of the springs that from thee burst Let me drink and quench my thirst; Weary, fainting, toil-oppressed, In thy shadow let me rest. [Refrain] 3 Mighty Rock, the pilgrim's home, Refuge from the billow's foam, Rock, by countless millions blest, In thy shadow let me rest. [Refrain] 4 When I hear the stream of death, When I feel its chilly breath, Rock, where all my hopes abide, In thy shadow let me hide. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Mighty Rock, whose towering form]

Go to Jesus

Author: Fanny Crosby Hymnal: JW1878 #3 (1879) First Line: Would'st thou find a friend to love thee Refrain First Line: Go, in trusting faith believing Lyrics: 1 Would'st thou find a friend to love thee More than human hearts can love, One who knows thy every trial? Such a friend thou hast above. Chorus: Go, in trusting faith believing, Cast thy burden on the Lord, He has promised to receive thee Take thy Savior at his word. 2 Would'st thou find the blessed fountain, Flowing at the cross so free? Go to Jesus; he will guide thee; Cleansed by him thy soul shall be. [Chorus] 3 Would'st thou find a friend to teach thee How thy soul by faith may live, How to reach those heights of rapture Earthly joy can never give? [Chorus] 4 Would'st thou find a friend to shield thee, When with clouds thy sky is dim? Go to Jesus; ask his mercy; Lo, he calls thee, go to him. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Would'st thou find a friend to love thee]

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People

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Edgar Page

1836 - 1921 Hymnal Number: 14 Author of "Beulah Land" in Joy to the World Real name Edgar Page Stites. Used Edgar Page ====================== Page, Edgar, is set forth in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878-81, as the author of (1) "I've reached the land of corn and wine" (Peace with God); (2) ”Simply trusting every day" (Trust in Jesus). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ===================== Page, Edgar, p. 1585, i. In his Sacred Songs, &c, Mr. Sankey attributes the hymns "I've reached the land of corn and wine," and "Simply trusting every day," to "Edgar Page," as stated on p. 1585, i.; but in his My Life and Sacred Songs, 1906, he gives both to "E. P. Stites," together with some details concerning them, but without any reference to the change in his ascription of authorship. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

John R. Sweney

1837 - 1899 Person Name: Jno. R. Sweney Hymnal Number: 11 Composer of "[Will you come, will you come, with your poor broken heart]" in Joy to the World John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy. Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker. Joe Hickerson from "Joe's Jottings #9" used by permission

Lowell Mason

1792 - 1872 Hymnal Number: 46 Composer of "[Watchman, tell us of the night]" in Joy to the World Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the entire art of music, as now understood and practiced in America, has derived advantage from the work of this great man. Lowell Mason was born in Medfield, Mass., January 8, 1792. From childhood he had manifested an intense love for music, and had devoted all his spare time and effort to improving himself according to such opportunities as were available to him. At the age of twenty he found himself filling a clerkship in a banking house in Savannah, Ga. Here he lost no opportunity of gratifying his passion for musical advancement, and was fortunate to meet for the first time a thoroughly qualified instructor, in the person of F. L. Abel. Applying his spare hours assiduously to the cultivation of the pursuit to which his passion inclined him, he soon acquired a proficiency that enabled him to enter the field of original composition, and his first work of this kind was embodied in the compilation of a collection of church music, which contained many of his own compositions. The manuscript was offered unavailingly to publishers in Philadelphia and in Boston. Fortunately for our musical advancement it finally secured the attention of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, and by its committee was submitted to Dr. G. K. Jackson, the severest critic in Boston. Dr. Jackson approved most heartily of the work, and added a few of his own compositions to it. Thus enlarged, it was finally published in 1822 as The Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason's name was omitted from the publication at his own request, which he thus explains, "I was then a bank officer in Savannah, and did not wish to be known as a musical man, as I had not the least thought of ever making music a profession." President Winchester, of the Handel and Haydn Society, sold the copyright for the young man. Mr. Mason went back to Savannah with probably $500 in his pocket as the preliminary result of his Boston visit. The book soon sprang into universal popularity, being at once adopted by the singing schools of New England, and through this means entering into the church choirs, to whom it opened up a higher field of harmonic beauty. Its career of success ran through some seventeen editions. On realizing this success, Mason determined to accept an invitation to come to Boston and enter upon a musical career. This was in 1826. He was made an honorary member of the Handel and Haydn Society, but declined to accept this, and entered the ranks as an active member. He had been invited to come to Boston by President Winchester and other musical friends and was guaranteed an income of $2,000 a year. He was also appointed, by the influence of these friends, director of music at the Hanover, Green, and Park Street churches, to alternate six months with each congregation. Finally he made a permanent arrangement with the Bowdoin Street Church, and gave up the guarantee, but again friendly influence stepped in and procured for him the position of teller at the American Bank. In 1827 Lowell Mason became president and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society. It was the beginning of a career that was to win for him as has been already stated the title of "The Father of American Church Music." Although this may seem rather a bold claim it is not too much under the circumstances. Mr. Mason might have been in the average ranks of musicianship had he lived in Europe; in America he was well in advance of his surroundings. It was not too high praise (in spite of Mason's very simple style) when Dr. Jackson wrote of his song collection: "It is much the best book I have seen published in this country, and I do not hesitate to give it my most decided approbation," or that the great contrapuntist, Hauptmann, should say the harmonies of the tunes were dignified and churchlike and that the counterpoint was good, plain, singable and melodious. Charles C. Perkins gives a few of the reasons why Lowell Mason was the very man to lead American music as it then existed. He says, "First and foremost, he was not so very much superior to the members as to be unreasonably impatient at their shortcomings. Second, he was a born teacher, who, by hard work, had fitted himself to give instruction in singing. Third, he was one of themselves, a plain, self-made man, who could understand them and be understood of them." The personality of Dr. Mason was of great use to the art and appreciation of music in this country. He was of strong mind, dignified manners, sensitive, yet sweet and engaging. Prof. Horace Mann, one of the great educators of that day, said he would walk fifty miles to see and hear Mr. Mason teach if he could not otherwise have that advantage. Dr. Mason visited a number of the music schools in Europe, studied their methods, and incorporated the best things in his own work. He founded the Boston Academy of Music. The aim of this institution was to reach the masses and introduce music into the public schools. Dr. Mason resided in Boston from 1826 to 1851, when he removed to New York. Not only Boston benefited directly by this enthusiastic teacher's instruction, but he was constantly traveling to other societies in distant cities and helping their work. He had a notable class at North Reading, Mass., and he went in his later years as far as Rochester, where he trained a chorus of five hundred voices, many of them teachers, and some of them coming long distances to study under him. Before 1810 he had developed his idea of "Teachers' Conventions," and, as in these he had representatives from different states, he made musical missionaries for almost the entire country. He left behind him no less than fifty volumes of musical collections, instruction books, and manuals. As a composer of solid, enduring church music. Dr. Mason was one of the most successful this country has introduced. He was a deeply pious man, and was a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mason in 1817 married Miss Abigail Gregory, of Leesborough, Mass. The family consisted of four sons, Daniel Gregory, Lowell, William and Henry. The two former founded the publishing house of Mason Bros., dissolved by the death of the former in 1869. Lowell and Henry were the founders of the great organ manufacturer of Mason & Hamlin. Dr. William Mason was one of the most eminent musicians that America has yet produced. Dr. Lowell Mason died at "Silverspring," a beautiful residence on the side of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, August 11, 1872, bequeathing his great musical library, much of which had been collected abroad, to Yale College. --Hall, J. H. (c1914). Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.

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