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Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: When our hearts are glad and light

[When our hearts are glad and light]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. T. Lightwood Incipit: 55663 45234 41233 Used With Text: When Our Hearts are Glad and Light

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When Our Hearts are Glad and Light

Author: Edward Bailey Hymnal: The New Canadian Hymnal #283 (1916) Refrain First Line: Be our Comforter and Friend Topics: Devotional; Morning and Evening Tune Title: [When our hearts are glad and light]

When Our Hearts are Glad and Light

Author: Edward Bailey Hymnal: The New Canadian Hymnal #283 (1921) Refrain First Line: Be our Comforter and Friend Languages: English Tune Title: [When our hearts are glad and light]

Be our Comforter and Friend

Hymnal: A Hymnal and Service Book for Sunday Schools, Day Schools, Guilds, Brotherhoods, etc. #459 (1893) First Line: When our hearts are glad and light Languages: English

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James T. Lightwood

1856 - 1944 Person Name: J. T. Lightwood Composer of "[When our hearts are glad and light]" in The New Canadian Hymnal Born: 1856, Leeds, England. Died: 1944, Lytham, Lancashire, England. Son of Wesleyan minister Edward Lightwood, James was born and baptized while his father was on the Leeds Brunswick Circuit. He attended Kingswood School (1866-72), earned a BA from London University, and became Headmaster of Pembroke House, a private school in Lytham. He went on to serve for three years as a member of the Board of Improvement Commissioners in Lytham, on the Lytham Council for six years, and as Chairman of the Streets Committee for four years. His resolution to bring gas into Fairhaven was eventually carried by one vote. Apart from music, his other great love was cycling. He began cycling in 1874 on a "boneshaker." By 1885, he was a member of the Cyclists Touring Club (CTC), and soon gained prominence. He was Chief Consul for Lancashire, and a member of the Council of the CTC from 1887. Honorary life membership came in 1907 in recognition of his services to the club, and in particular with publication of the club’s route books and other writings. Music was his great love, though, and hymnody in particular. He was an accomplished organist, and after two years as deputy organist at the Drive Wesleyan Church, St. Annes, he was appointed Honorary Organist and Choirmaster in 1894. When the pressure of work due to his appointment as editor of the new Methodist publication The Choir and organizing the newly formed Music Department of the Methodist Publishing House, the trustees at Drive Church made him a grant of £20 to assist him in his research in hymnology. While advising Methodism on musical matters, he found the unique 1761 Snetzler organ for the New Room at Bristol. Lightwood’s works include: Hymn Tunes and Their Story (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1905) Charles Dickens and Music, 1912 Samuel Wesley, Musician: The Story of His Life Cyclists’ Touring Club: The Romance of 50 Years Cycling, 1928 The Music of the Methodist Hymn-Book (London: The Epworth Press, 1935) http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/i/g/lightwood_jt.htm

Edward Bailey

1846 - 1946 Author of "When Our Hearts are Glad and Light" in The New Canadian Hymnal Bailey, Edward, a Wesleyan local preacher, and a representative of a London iron firm, was born at Brentford, Middlesex, Aug. 16, 1846. At 12 years of age, through the death of his father, he was compelled to work for his own livelihood, and to support his widowed mother, who was paralysed. His heavy labours were relieved by literary efforts, the first to appear in print being in 1869. Mr. Bailey is known chiefly as the author of 25 tracts in prose and verse, which have been published by the Wesleyan, the Tract, and other Societies, and of several hymns. Some of the latter were written for Anniversary Services at various Sunday Schools with which he was associated, and others in times of personal affliction. Of these hymns the following are in the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, and other collections:— 1. Gracious God! Almighty Father. Missions. 2. Tried, trusted, crowned. Perseverance. 3. When our hearts are glad and light. For Guidance. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)