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We Bring No Glittering Treasures

Author: Harriet Phillips Appears in 115 hymnals First Line: We bring no glitt'ring treasures Used With Tune: [We bring no glitt'ring treasures]

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Appears in 348 hymnals Tune Sources: German Melody, 1648 Incipit: 12365 43335 43221 Used With Text: We bring no glitt'ring treasures
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[We bring no glittering treasures]

Appears in 5 hymnals Tune Sources: Hymnes des Croyants Incipit: 51113 32434 21715 Used With Text: We Bring no Glittering Treasures
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[We bring no glitt'ring treasures]

Appears in 1,591 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: C. J. Webb Incipit: 51131 16151 2325 Used With Text: Treasures

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We Bring no Glittering Treasures

Author: Harriet Phillips Hymnal: Select Sunday School Songs #96 (1885) Languages: English Tune Title: [We bring no glittering treasures]
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We Bring No Glittering Treasures

Hymnal: The Salvation Army Songs and Music #134 (1917) Refrain First Line: The Light of the world is Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [We bring no glittering treasures]
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We Bring No Glittering Treasures

Author: Harriet Phillips Hymnal: Imperial Songs #41 (1894) First Line: We bring no glitt'ering treasures Languages: English Tune Title: [We bring no glitt'ering treasures]

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Harriet Phillips

1806 - 1884 Author of "We Bring No Glittering Treasures" in Imperial Songs Phillips, Harriet Cecilia, was born in Sharon, Connecticut, in 1806, and was for many years an active worker in Sunday Schools in New York city. She contributed five hymns to the Rev. W. C. Hoyt's Family and Social Melodies, 1853, and has also written for various magazines. "We bring no glittering treasures" (Sunday School Anniversary), was written circa 1848 for a Sunday School Festival in New York city, and published in the Methodist Episcopal Hymns, 1849 (Nutter's Hymn Notes, 1884, p. 31l). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Friedrich Silcher

1789 - 1860 Person Name: Silcher Composer of "[We bring no glitt'ering treasures]" in Imperial Songs

George James Webb

1803 - 1887 Person Name: C. J. Webb Composer of "[We bring no glitt'ring treasures]" in The Standard Sunday School Hymnal George James Webb, b. 1803,England; d. 1887, Orange, N. J. Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908
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