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Hark, comes a voice

Author: Eben E. Rexford Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Father, the tempest is raging

[Father, the tempest is raging]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: H. N. Lincoln Incipit: 11176 51345 65243 Used With Text: True to the Promise

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Author: E. E. Rexford Hymnal: Harvest Bells Nos. 1, 2 and 3 #263 (1892) First Line: Father, the tempest is raging Refrain First Line: Hark! comes a voice from the darkness Languages: English Tune Title: [Father, the tempest is raging]

Hark, comes a voice

Author: Eben E. Rexford Hymnal: Harvest Bells No.3 #d21 (1887) First Line: Father, the tempest is raging Languages: English

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Eben E. Rexford

1848 - 1916 Person Name: E. E. Rexford Author of "True to the Promise" in Harvest Bells Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Rexford, Eben Eugene.M (Johnsburg, New York, July 16, 1848--October 16, 1916, Shiocton, Wisconsin). Horticulturalist and editor of a Wisconsin farm journal. Many of his verses were used to fill empty corners of the journal. He also wrote many books on gardening. Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisc.), Litt.D. Twenty-five years, organist at First Congregational Church, Shiocton. See: Smith, Mary L.P. (1930). Eben E. Rexford; a biographical sketch. Menasha, Wis., George Banta Pub. Co. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives and Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company. =============== Rexford, Eben Eugene , an American writer, born July 16, 1848, is the author of Nos. 199, 246, 263, 353, in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos), 1878, No. 5, and 456 in the Methodist Sunday School Hymnbook, 1879. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================ Rexford, E. E. , p. 1587, ii. Additional hymns by this author in common use include:— 1. He saw the wheat fields waiting. Harvest of the World. 2. O where are the reapers. Missions. 3. Rouse up to work that waits for us. Duty. 4. We are sailing o'er an ocean. Life's Vicissitudes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================

H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Composer of "[Father, the tempest is raging]" in Harvest Bells Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Horace Neely Lincoln, 1859-1948. Horace was the son of James Lincoln and Emaline King, and husband of Etta Lee Thurmand (married 1887). He moved with his family to Texas when he was seven years old. At age 10, he began attending a singing school conducted by James M. Jolley of Mississippi. In 1880, he taught his first singing class in his old neighborhood school house. Later that year, he attended his first normal music school, taught at Mountain Home (now Holland), Texas. Lincoln had other musical training under L. B. Shook (a former student of Philip Bliss) and John McPherson of Illinois. In 1898, he graduated from the Chicago National College of Music, and in 1906 took a post-graduate course under Horatio Palmer. Lincoln eventually became president of the Songland Music Company, and the World’s Normal Musical College. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime/tch)