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Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 76 hymnals First Line: To thee, let my first offering rise Lyrics: 1 To thee let my first offerings rise, Whose sun creates the day, Swift as his gladdening influence flies, And spotless as his ray. 2 This day thy favouring hand be nigh! So oft vouchsaf'd before! Still may it lead, protect, supply! And I that hand adore! 3 If bliss thy providence impart, For which resign'd I pray? Give me to feel the grateful heart? And without guilt be gay! 4 Affliction should thy love intend, As vice or folly's cure; Patient, to gain that gracious end, May I the means endure! 5 Be this, and every future day Still wiser than the past! And when I all my life survey, May grace sustain at last. Topics: Times and Seasons Morning

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NORTH CAROLINA

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. Hauser Incipit: 31161 23213 51345 Used With Text: To Thee let my first off'rings rise

BEDFORD

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 13543 2132 Used With Text: To thee let my first offrings rise

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To thee, let my [our] first offering [offerings] rise

Author: Drennan Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns, More Particularly Designed for the Use of the West Society in Boston. (2nd ed. with Additions) #CLVIII (1803) Languages: English

To thee, let my first offerings rise

Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs #H.CCXXV (1809) Languages: English

To Thee let my first offerings rise

Hymnal: The Lecture-Room Hymn-Book #H166 (1855)

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William Hauser

1812 - 1880 Person Name: Wm. Hauser Composer of "NORTH CAROLINA" in The Good Old Songs The Reverend Dr. William Clarke Hauser was a minister, medical doctor, teacher, composer, and music publisher. He was born December 23, 1812 in Bethania, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA, and died September 15, 1880 in Wadley, Jefferson County, Georgia. He was the son of Martin Hauser and Leah Billiter. William Hauser united with the Methodist Church in 1827 and was licensed to preach in 1834 and was a circuit riding preacher for two years. On March 23, 1837, he married Eliza M. Renshaw (1813-1880), and they had three children: Carolina Elizabeth Hauser Parker (1838-1926), William Clarke Hauser (1844-1919), and Victor McLandhton Hauser (1847-1919). William Hauser raised his family in New Orleans, LA and Victor Hauser did the same in Ogden, Utah. William Hauser attended Henry College in Virginia, beginning in 1839. After moving to Georgia in 1841, he began the study of medicine. He later taught at Oglethorpe Medical College in Savannah, GA. Hauser made two significant contributions in the area of shape note music: (1) The Hesperian Harp: a Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Odes and Anthems, published in four shapes at Philadelphia by T. K. Collins, Jr. in 1848; and (2) Olive Leaf: A Collection of Beautiful Tunes, New and Old; the Whole of One or More Hymns Accompanying Each Tune, for the Glory of God, and the Good of Mankind, published in seven shapes at Wadley, Georgia, by Hauser and Benjamin Turner in 1878. The Hesperian Harp was probably the largest shape note tune book of its day, containing 552 pages of music, including 36 songs composed by Hauser. His Olive Leaf was produced in the seven shape notes of Jesse B. Aikin and contained only eight of his compositions from the older book. But his new compositions numbered forty-eight. The Moravian Music Foundation calls Dr. William Hauser "Appalachia's most significant contribution to American music." Dr. Hauser died on September 18, 1880. His last words were ″I feel that my work on earth is done, and there is not a cloud between me and God.″ William and Eliza Hauser are buried on their plantation, Hesperia, near Wadley in Jefferson County, Georgia. --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

William Drennan

1754 - 1820 Author of "A Morning Hymn" Drennan, William, M.D., b. at Belfast, May 23, 1754, and educated at Glasgow, where he graduated M.A. in 1771, and M.D. 1778. He subsequently practised at Belfast. He died Feb. 5, 1820. In 1815 he published Fugitive Pieces in Prose and Verse, Belfast, 1815; and his Poems were collected and published with a Memoir by his sons in 1859. Of his poems six are grouped under the heading of "Religious Poems." Seven hymns, including five of these "Religious Poems," were contributed to Aspland's Unitarian Selection, 1810; but in the 1859 Poems and Memoir most of them are in a longer form. As most of these are still in common use amongst the Unitarians in Great Britain and America, we subjoin the list of first lines:— 1. All nature feels attractive power. Law of Love. 2. Bless’d who with generous pity glows. Charity. 3. Humanity! thou sent of God. Faith, Hope, Charity. 4. In this fair globe, with ocean bound. Love of God. 5. O sweeter than the fragrant flower. Being Good. 6. The heaven of heavens cannot contain. Divine Worship. 7. The husbandman goes forth afield. Fruits of Benevolence. [William T. Brooke] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)