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Children, Can You Truly Tell

Appears in 9 hymnals Used With Tune: [Children, can you truly tell]

[Children, can you truly tell]

Appears in 2 hymnals Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 33432 31556 54531 Used With Text: On A Christmas Morning

[Children, can you truly tell]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Maltbie D. Babcock Incipit: 33531 23333 35432 Used With Text: Children, Can You Truly Tell

[Children, can you truly tell]

Appears in 1 hymnal Incipit: 55556 11155 33225 Used With Text: On a Sunday Morning

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Children, Can You Truly Tell

Hymnal: Hymns and Carols #8 (1903) Languages: English Tune Title: [Children, can you truly tell]

Children, can You Truly Tell

Hymnal: The Hosanna #88 (1884) Languages: English Tune Title: [Children, can you truly tell]

Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #9697 First Line: Children, can you truly tell Refrain First Line: On the Christmas morning Lyrics: 1 Children, can you truly tell, Do you know the story well, Every girl and every boy, Why the angels sang for joy Refrain: On the Christmas morning, On the Christmas morning? 2 Yes, we know the story well; Listen now, and hear us tell Every little girl and boy, Why the angels sang for joy [Refrain] 3 Shepherds sat upon the ground, Fleecy flocks lay scattered round, When a brightness filled the sky, And a song was heard on high [Refrain] 4 Joy and peace the angels sang, Far the pleasant echoes rang; Peace on earth, to men good will, Hark! the angels sing it still [Refrain] 5 For a little babe this day, Cradled in a manger lay; Born on earth our Lord to be, This the wondering angels see [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Children, can you truly tell]

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Maltbie D. Babcock

1858 - 1901 Composer of "[Children, can you truly tell]" in Hymns and Carols Maltbie D. Babcock (b. Syracuse, NY, 1858; d. Naples, Italy, 1901) graduated from Syracuse University, New York, and Auburn Theological Seminary (now associated with Union Theological Seminary in New York) and became a Presbyterian minister. He served the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. In Baltimore he was especially popular with students from Johns Hopkins University, but he ministered to people from all walks of life. Babcock wrote hymn texts and devotional, poems, some of which were published in The School Hymnal (1899). Bert Polman =================== Babcock, Maltbie Davenport, D.D., was born at Syracuse, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1858. Graduating from Syracuse University, he was ordained to the Presbyterian Ministry and was pastor of churches in Lockport, N.Y., Baltimore, and N.Y. City. He died at Naples, Italy, May 18th, 1901. He was richly gifted, and his short career was memorable for the extraordinary influence of his personality and his preaching. Extracts from his sermons and poems were published in 1901 as Thoughts for Every Day Living; and his Biography by Dr. C. E. Robinson in 1904. He contributed to the Presbyterian School Hymnal, 1899, the following hymns:— 1. Gaily the bells are ringing. Faster. 2. O blessed Saviour, Lord of love. Unto Me. 3. Shining Sun, shining sun. Child's Hymn. The tunes to these hymns were of his own composing. In The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, there is:— 4. Rest in the Lord, my soul. Trust and Peace and in the American Methodist Hymnal, 1905:— 5. Be strong: we are not here to play. Activity in God's Service. Nos. 4 and 5 are from Thoughts for Every Day Living, 1901; but undated. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)