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[Hail, sweet Babe, so pure and holy!]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. Pettman Incipit: 32435 54433 46711 Used With Text: Hail, sweet Babe, so pure and holy!

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Hail, sweet Babe, so pure and holy!

Author: E. Wiglesworth Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Christmas Used With Tune: [Hail, sweet Babe, so pure and holy!]

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Hail, sweet Babe, so pure and holy!

Author: E. Wiglesworth Hymnal: The Song Companion to the Scriptures #22 (1911) Languages: English Tune Title: [Hail, sweet Babe, so pure and holy!]
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Hail, sweet Babe, so pure and holy!

Author: E. Wiglesworth Hymnal: Carols Old and Carols New #410 (1916) Topics: Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: [Hail, sweet Babe, so pure and holy!]

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Edgar Pettman

1886 - 1943 Composer of "[Hail, sweet Babe, so pure and holy!]" in The Song Companion to the Scriptures

Esther Wiglesworth

1827 - 1904 Person Name: E. Wiglesworth Author of "Hail, sweet Babe, so pure and holy!" in The Song Companion to the Scriptures Wiglesworth, Esther, daughter of Thomas Wiglesworth, was born at 6 Bruce Terrace, Tottenham, Middlesex, in 1827, and is now (1891) Matron of the Magdalen Asylum, Streatham. She has composed a large number of small poetical works, and has contributed numerous hymns and poems to the periodical press. The works from which most of her hymns in common use are taken, are: Verses for the Sundays and Holidays of the Christian Seasons, 1863; (2) Verses for Christian Children, 1871; (3) Hymns for the Feasts, and other Verses, 1878; (4) Songs of Perseverance, 1885, &c. These hymns in common use include:— 1. Almighty Father, God of love. Morning. 2. Father, look upon Thy children. Confirmation. 3. God chooseth out the place. God the Guide. 4. God sets a still small voice. Conscience. 5. How beautiful is earth. Heaven. 6. Little children, Advent bids you. Advent. 7. O Fount of life and beauty. St. Barnabas. 8. Thou Who with dying lips For Orphans. 9. When we in holy worship. Divine Worship. Miss Wiglesworth's hymns are admirably suited, through their simplicity and tenderness, for the use of children. She d. Oct. 31, 1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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