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What Is the Theme?
Author: F. G. Burroughs Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: What is the theme of joy today? Refrain First Line: Let mighty floods now clap their hands
What Is the Theme?
[What is the theme of joy today?]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Adam Geibel Incipit: 55531 61557 77511 Used With Text: What Is the Theme?
[What is the theme of joy today?]
What Is the Theme?
Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: The Emory Hymnal No. 2 #158 (1891) First Line: What is the theme of joy today? Refrain First Line: Let mighty floods now clap their hands Lyrics: 1 What is the theme of joy today?
Praise to our King.
Praise to our King.
What is the burden of each lay?
Praise, grateful praise to our King;
What is the song the glad birds sing?
What are the blossoms offering?
Praise, loving praise, humble praise, grateful praise
To their kind benefactor they raise.
Chorus:
Let mighty floods now clap their hands;
Let little hills again rejoice;
Let all the fields and the trees of
the wood to His praise lend a voice.
2 What does the mountain stream-let say?
Praise ye the Lord.
Praise ye the Lord.
What hum the bees in meadows gay?
Praise all ye people the Lord;
What do the zephyrs softly croon,
Under the rays of silver moon?
Praise ye the Lord, all ye stars of the night,
Praise the Lord for your glorious light. [Chorus]
3 What is the theme of this glad day?
Praise to our King.
Praise to our King.
This is the burden of each lay,
Praise, loving praise to our King;
Swelling the notes the glad birds sing,
Joining the flowers' offering,
Praise, loving praise, humble praise, grateful praise
To our King and our Saviour we'll raise. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [What is the theme of joy today?]
What Is the Theme?
What Is the Theme?
Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: Sunlit Songs #86 (1890) First Line: What is the theme of joy today? Refrain First Line: Let mighty floods now clap their hands Languages: English Tune Title: [What is the theme of joy today?]
What Is the Theme?
Adam Geibel
1855 - 1933 Composer of "[What is the theme of joy today?]" in The Emory Hymnal No. 2 Born: September 15, 1855, Neuenheim, Germany.
Died: August 3, 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Though blinded by an eye infection at age eight, Geibel was a successful composer, conductor, and organist. Emigrating from Germany probably around 1864, he studied at the Philadelphia Institute for the Blind, and wrote a number of Gospel songs, anthems, cantatas, etc. He founded the Adam Geibel Music Company, later evolved into the Hall-Mack Company, and later merged to become the Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company. He was well known for secular songs like "Kentucky Babe" and "Sleep, Sleep, Sleep." In 1885, Geibel organized the J. B. Stetson Mission. He conducted the Stetson Chorus of Philadelphia, and from 1884-1901, was a music instructor at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. His works include:
Evening Bells, 1874
Saving Grace, with Alonzo Stone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Stone & Bechter, Publishers, 1898)
Consecrated Hymns, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1902)
Uplifted Voices, co-editor with R. Frank Lehman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1901)
World-Wide Hosannas, with R. Frank Lehman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1904)
Hymns of the Kingdom, co-editor with R. Frank Lehman et al. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1905)
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Adam Geibel
F. G. Burroughs
1856 - 1949 Author of "What Is the Theme?" in The Emory Hymnal No. 2 F. G. Burroughs was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of Ophelia G. Adams and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs.
Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921
F. G. Burroughs
