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The Lord is our King, exulting we cry

Author: Thoro Harris Appears in 3 hymnals Used With Tune: REX

REX

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: William B. Olmstead Incipit: 13215 56776 51232 Used With Text: The Lord is our King, exulting we cry

[The Lord is our King]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Thoro Harris Incipit: 53121 54333 25571 Used With Text: The Lord Is Our King

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The Lord is our King, exulting we cry

Author: Thoro Harris Hymnal: The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal #714 (1910) Languages: English Tune Title: REX

The Lord is our King, exulting we cry

Author: Thoro Harris Hymnal: Free Methodist Hymnal #714 (1915) Languages: English

The Lord Is Our King

Author: T. H. Hymnal: Songs We Love #165 (1921) Languages: English Tune Title: [The Lord is our King]

1874 - 1955 Author of "The Lord Is Our King" Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906) Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor) Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922) --www.hymntime.com/tch

William Backus Olmstead

1862 - 1941 Person Name: William B. Olmstead Composer of "REX" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal William Backus Olmstead USA 1862-1941. He was born in Michigan. Musically inclined, he wrote a score: “A little while, O hands” for the piano. He wrote a handbook for Sunday school workers and a biography of the Rev Charles H Sage (his pioneering church work in MI and other states and formation of the Canadian church conference). He published three song books: “Light & life songs” (1904), “Voices of praise” (1909), and “Light & life songs #2” (1914). He also served on the commission (one of three editors) that produced the Free Methodist Hymnal (1910), published in Winona Lake, IN. He was living in Chicago in 1914. In 1921 he became Mission Secretary for the China Inland Mission of the Methodist Church. In 1923-24 he and his wife, Minnie, were engaged on a world-wide trip on behalf of the church, visiting hospitals, schools, leper colonies, and congregations across Japan, China, India, and southern Africa. He died in San Francisco, CA. John Perry