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Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Send out the messengers over the sea Refrain First Line: Send out the messengers, send them today Used With Tune: [Send out the messengers over the sea]

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[Send out the messengers over the sea]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Broughton Edwards Incipit: 55534 51165 52347 Used With Text: Send Out the Messengers

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Send Out the Messengers

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Sunday School Melodies #81 (1914) First Line: Send out the messengers over the sea Refrain First Line: Send out the messengers, send them today Languages: English Tune Title: [Send out the messengers over the sea]

Send Out the Messengers

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Jehovah's Praise #171 (1928) First Line: Send out the messengers over the sea Refrain First Line: Send out the messengers, send them today Languages: English Tune Title: [Send out the messengers over the sea]

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Author of "Send Out the Messengers" in Sunday School Melodies Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)