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Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 41 hymnals First Line: There's a word of tender beauty Refrain First Line: In my Father's blessed keeping Topics: God Providence; Call to Repentance; Trust Used With Tune: [There's a word of tender beauty]

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[There's a word of tender beauty]

Appears in 32 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Gilmour Incipit: 34565 32155 61535 Used With Text: Not one forgotten

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Not one forgotten

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Heavenly Sunlight #9 (1900) First Line: There's a word of tender beauty Refrain First Line: In my Father's blessed keeping Scripture: Luke 12:6 Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a word of tender beauty]

Not One Forgotten

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Evangelistic Edition of Heavenly Sunlight #9 (1900) First Line: There's a word of tender beauty Refrain First Line: In my Father's blessed keeping Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a word of tender beauty]

Not One Forgotten

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Songs of Love and Praise No. 3 #13 (1896) First Line: There's a word of tender beauty Refrain First Line: In my Father's blessed keeping Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a word of tender beauty]

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Author of "Not One Forgotten" in Glorious Praise 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)

H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Composer of "[There's a word of tender beauty]" in Glorious Praise Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry