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When the children sing

Author: Ada Blenkhorn Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: There's a blessed hour to my heart most dear Refrain First Line: At the hour, happy hour, when the children sing

[There's a blessed hour to my heart]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: E. S. Lorenz Used With Text: When the Children Sing

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Author: Ada Blenkhorn Hymnal: United Praise #55 (1908) First Line: There's a blessed hour, to my heart most dear Refrain First Line: At the hour, happy hour, when the children sing! Lyrics: 1 There’s a blessed hour, to my heart so dear, Sweetest joy its moments bring; And the chimes of heav’n I seem to hear, At the hour when the children sing. Refrain: At the hour, happy hour, when the children sing! At the hour, happy hour, when the children sing! Then life’s joys are dear, and heav’n is near, At the hour when the children sing. 2 How their happy voices in gladness blend, As they worship Christ the King; Oh, the sweetest songs to him ascend, At the hour when the children sing. [Refrain] 3 O that happy hour, passing swiftly by, Like a bird on shining wing! How our hearts uplift to God on high, At the hour when the children sing. [Refrain] Tune Title: [There's a blessed hour to my heart]

When the children sing

Author: Ada Blenkhorn Hymnal: Precious Jewels of Sacred Song #d236 (1905) First Line: There's a blessed hour to my heart most dear Refrain First Line: At the hour, happy hour, when the children sing

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Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Composer of "[There's a blessed hour to my heart]" in United Praise Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund, ==================== Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900. Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany. He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889. Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934). For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree. --Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives

Ada Blenkhorn

1858 - 1927 Author of "When the Children Sing" Ada Jane Blenkhorn Canada 1858-1927 Born in Cobourg, Ontario, the 10th of 11 children, she emigrated with her family to the U.S. In 1884 and settled in Cleveland, OH.. She was raised a Methodist, and began writing hymn lyrics at age 34. A prolific writer of hymn lyrics, she was about to give it up when a friend encouraged her to continue, telling her some soul might be saved by a hymn she would write. She worked for many years as secretary to her brother, Henry's, real estate company. After his death in 1923, she became president of the company. She never married. John Perry