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The Lilies' Message

Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Fair white lilies round the altar stand Refrain First Line: For the lilies breathe a message here today

[Fair white lilies round the altar stand]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: I. H. Meredith Incipit: 32365 44326 56767 Used With Text: The Lilies' Message

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Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson Hymnal: Sunday School Hymns No. 2 #236 (1912) First Line: Fair white lilies round the altar stand Refrain First Line: For the lilies breathe a message here today Languages: English Tune Title: [Fair white lilies round the altar stand]

For the lillies breathe a message here today

Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson Hymnal: Sunday School Hymns No. 2 (Canadian ed.) #236 (1912) First Line: Fair white lillies round the altar stand Languages: English

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I. H. Meredith

1872 - 1962 Composer of "[Fair white lilies round the altar stand]" in Sunday School Hymns No. 2 Pseudonyms Charles C. Ackley (taken from his wife’s name, Clarissa Ackley Cowan) Broughton Edwards Floyd Engle (from his address on Floyd Street in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) Arthur Grantley Bruce Kennedy See also Ackley, Chas. C. 1872-1962 See also Edwards, Broughton

Edith Sanford Tillotson

1876 - 1968 Author of "The Lilies' Message" Edith Sanford Tillotson was born and lived her entire life in Corona, New York. She wrote hymns for children as well as poems and librettos. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)