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[In the shadow of the rock]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Adam Geibel Incipit: 34555 55135 55777 Used With Text: In the Shadow of the Rock
[In the shadow of the rock]
In the Shadow of the Rock
Author: Rev. M. Lowrie Hofford Appears in 3 hymnals Refrain First Line: Let me rest Used With Tune: [In the shadow of the rock]
In the Shadow of the Rock
In the Shadow of the Rock
Author: Rev. M. Lowrie Hofford Hymnal: Songs of Redeeming Love No. 2 #60 (1887) Refrain First Line: Let me rest Languages: English Tune Title: [In the shadow of the rock]
In the Shadow of the Rock
In the Shadow of the Rock
Author: Rev. M. Lowrie Hofford Hymnal: Our Sabbath Home Praise Book #85 (1884) Refrain First Line: Let me rest Languages: English Tune Title: [In the shadow of the rock]
In the Shadow of the Rock
In the Shadow of the Rock
Author: Rev. M. Lowrie Hofford Hymnal: Spicy Breezes #131 (1883) Refrain First Line: Let me rest Languages: English Tune Title: [In the shadow of the rock]
In the Shadow of the Rock
Adam Geibel
1855 - 1933 Composer of "[In the shadow of the rock]" in Songs of Redeeming Love 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
M. Lowrie Hofford
1825 - 1888 Person Name: Rev. M. Lowrie Hofford Author of "In the Shadow of the Rock" in Songs of Redeeming Love No. 2 Born: January 27, 1825, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Died: January 9, 1888, Trenton, New Jersey.
Hofford attended Lafayette and Princeton, where he graduated in 1849. He studied theology at the Princeton seminary for a year, and became principal of the Camden collegiate institute. While there, he organized a church at Beverly, New Jersey, being licensed by the Presbytery in Philadelphia in 1852. In 1855, he was ordained an evangelist in Burlington, New Jersey. In 1860, he began teaching at the Trenton Institute, and in 1863 took charge of a military institute at Allentown, Pennsylvania that was later incorporated as Muhlenberg College; he served there as a professor and later president. He taught and pastored at Camden and Beverly, New Jersey, and Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1868-78), then became pastor at Morrisville, Pennsylvania.
--www.hymntime.com/tch
M. Lowrie Hofford
