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Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: We greet the smiling Eastertide Lyrics: 1 We greet the smiling Eastertide, And sing the blessed story, The Lamb of God the Crucified Is living now in glory. Refrain: Living now in glory, Living now in glory; Tell it far and wide, that he who died Is living now in glory. 2 He lives to take our sins away, Our present mighty Savior; To help us serve him, ev’ry day, And show his grace and favor. [Refrain] 3 Then let us come, a joyful throng, While all the birds are singing, Glad measures of the new, new song From happy voices ringing. [Refrain] 4 We’ll deck his altar with the flow’rs, Awakened from their sleeping; And, better still, these hearts of ours We’ll give unto his keeping. [Refrain] Topics: Easter Used With Tune: [We greet the smiling Eastertide]

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[We greet the smiling Eastertide]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas Martin Towne Tune Key: B Flat Major Used With Text: Living Now In Glory

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Living Now in Glory

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Sunday School Voices #226 (1910) First Line: We greet the smiling Eastertide Lyrics: 1 We greet the smiling Eastertide, And sing the blessed story, The Lamb of God the Crucified Is living now in glory. Refrain: Living now in glory, Living now in glory; Tell it far and wide, that he who died Is living now in glory. 2 He lives to take our sins away, Our present mighty Savior; To help us serve him, ev’ry day, And show his grace and favor. [Refrain] 3 Then let us come, a joyful throng, While all the birds are singing, Glad measures of the new, new song From happy voices ringing. [Refrain] 4 We’ll deck his altar with the flow’rs, Awakened from their sleeping; And, better still, these hearts of ours We’ll give unto his keeping. [Refrain] Topics: Easter Languages: English Tune Title: [We greet the smiling Eastertide]

Living Now In Glory

Author: Eliza Edmunds Hewitt Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #11787 First Line: We greet the smiling Eastertide Lyrics: 1 We greet the smiling Eastertide, And sing the blessèd story, The Lamb of God, the Crucified, Is living now in glory. Refrain: Living now in glory, Living now in glory; Tell it far and wide, that He who died Is living now in glory. 2 He lives to take our sins away, Our present mighty Savior; To help us serve Him, every day, And show His grace and favor. [Refrain] 3 Then let us come, a joyful throng, While all the birds are singing, Glad measures of the new, new song From happy voices ringing. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [We greet the smiling Eastertide]

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Author of "Living Now in Glory" in Sunday School Voices 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)

T. Martin Towne

1835 - 1912 Composer of "[We greet the smiling Eastertide]" in Sunday School Voices Towne, T. Martin. (Coleraine, Franklin County, Massachusetts, May 31 [sic], 1835-- ). Methodist. Attended Williston's Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. 1855 to Hudson, New York, then Albany. Taught in Ypsilanti, Michigan, then Detroit. Settled in Janesville, Wisconsin. Served in the Civil War. Settled in Chicago; married Belle Kellogg. Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives