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[For our pleasant birthdays]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. Towner Incipit: 54353 12277 15435 Used With Text: Birthday Song

Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: For our pleasant birthdays Lyrics: 1 For our pleasant birthdays, While we gladly sing, For our years so happy, Lord, our gifts we bring; For Thy love, dear Saviour, For Thy tender care, Thankful hearts we give Thee, Hear our birthday prayer. 2 Many little children Now are sick or sad, These will we remember, Help to make them glad; May we truly love Thee, Thy dear children be; Take our lives, Lord Jesus, All our days for Thee. Used With Tune: [For our pleasant birthdays]

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Birthday Song

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Song and Study for God's Little Ones #33 (1894) First Line: For our pleasant birthdays Lyrics: 1 For our pleasant birthdays, While we gladly sing, For our years so happy, Lord, our gifts we bring; For Thy love, dear Saviour, For Thy tender care, Thankful hearts we give Thee, Hear our birthday prayer. 2 Many little children Now are sick or sad, These will we remember, Help to make them glad; May we truly love Thee, Thy dear children be; Take our lives, Lord Jesus, All our days for Thee. Languages: English Tune Title: [For our pleasant birthdays]

Birthday Song

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Bible Study Songs #115 (1899) First Line: For our pleasant birthdays Lyrics: 1 For our pleasant birthdays, While we gladly sing, For our years so happy, Lord, our gifts we bring; For thy love, dear Saviour, For thy tender care, Thankful hearts we give thee, Hear our birthday pray'r. 2 Many little children Now are sick or sad, These will we remember, Help to make them glad; May we truly love thee, Thy dear children be; Take our lives, Lord Jesus, All our days for thee. Languages: English Tune Title: [For our pleasant birthdays]

Birthday Song

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Action #17 (1957) First Line: For our pleasant birthdays Languages: English Tune Title: [For our pleasant birthdays]

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D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Composer of "[For our pleasant birthdays]" in Bible Study Songs Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Author of "Birthday Song" in Bible Study Songs 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)