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[More love to thee, O Christ]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hutchison Incipit: 34355 43212 56514 Used With Text: More Love to Thee

More Love to Thee

Author: Mrs. E. P. Prentiss Appears in 829 hymnals First Line: More love to thee, O Christ Used With Tune: [More love to thee, O Christ]

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Author: Mrs. E. P. Prentiss Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.2 #8 (1889) First Line: More love to thee, O Christ Lyrics: 1 More love to thee, O Christ, More love to thee! Hear thou the prayer I make On bended knee; This is my earnest plea, More love to thee; More love, O Christ, to thee, More love to thee. 2 Once earthly joy I craved, Sought peace and rest, Now, thee alone I seek, Give what is best; This all my prayer shall be, More love to thee; More love, O Christ, to thee, More love to thee. 3 Let sorrow do its work, Send grief and pain; Sweet are thy messengers, Sweet their refrain, When they can sing with me,— More love to thee; More love, O Christ, to thee, More love to thee. 4 Then shall my latest breath Whisper thy praise, This be the parting cry My heart shall raise; This still its prayer shall be, More love to thee; More love, O Christ, to thee, More love to thee. Tune Title: [More love to thee, O Christ]

More Love to Thee

Author: Mrs. E. P. Prentiss Hymnal: Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #226 (1890) First Line: More love to thee, O Christ Languages: English Tune Title: [More love to thee, O Christ]

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E. Prentiss

1818 - 1878 Person Name: Mrs. E. P. Prentiss Author of "More Love to Thee" in Triumphant Songs No.2 Elizabeth Payson Prentiss USA 1818-1878. Born at Portland, ME, 5th child of Congregationalist minister, Edward Payson. He died of tuberculosis in 1827, and the family moved to New York City in 1831. That year she professed faith in Christ and joined the Bleeker Street Presbyterian Church. She possessed keen abilities, including sympathy and perceptiveness. She began writing stories and poems, and contributed her works to “The youth’s companion”, a New England religious periodical. In 1838 she opened a small girls’ school in her home and took up a Sabbath-school class as well. Two years later, she moved to Richmond, VA, to be a department head at a girls’ boarding school. In 1845 she married George Lewis Prentiss, a brother of her close friend, Anna Prentiss Stearns. The Prentisses settled in New Bedford, MA, where George became pastor of South Trinitarian Church. In 1851 George became pastor of Mercer St Presbyterian Church in New York City. After a happy period in life, by 1852 she had lost two of her three children, one as a newborn, one at age four. However, she went on to have three more healthy children, despite her poor health. She wrote her first book of stories, published in 1853. In 1856 she penned her famous hymn lyrics (noted below) after she nearly lost her daughter, Minnie, to an illness. After George resigned from his church due to failing health, the family went abroad for a couple of years. In 1860 they returned to NY, where George resumed his pastorate and held a chair at Union Theological Seminary. She published her most popular book, “Stepping heavenward” in 1869, furnishing it in installments to ‘Chicago Advance’. The family evenually settled in Dorset, VT, where she died. After her death, her husband published “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss” in 1882. The family children were: Annie, Eddy, Bessie, Minnie, George, and Henry. John Perry ================ Prentiss, Elizabeth, née Payson, youngest daughter of Dr. Edward Payson, was born at Portland, Maine, Oct. 26, 1818; married to George Lewis Prentiss, D.D., then at Bedford, Massachusetts, April, 1845; and died at Dorset, Vermont, Aug. 13, 1878. Her Life and Letters by her husband appeared some time after. Dr. Prentiss removed from Bedford to New York in 1851, and was appointed Professor of Pastoral Theology at Union Seminary, New York, 1873. Mrs. Prentiss's works include The Flower of the Family; Stepping Heavenward, 1869; and Religious Poems, 1873. Of her hymns the two following are most widely known:— 1. As on a vast eternal shore Thanksgiving. Contributed to Schaff's Christ in Song, 1869. 2. More love to Thee, 0 Christ. More Love to Christ desired. Written in 1869, and first printed on a fly-sheet; then in Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, N. Y., 1872. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

E. O. Excell

1851 - 1921 Person Name: E. O. E. Arranger of "[More love to thee, O Christ]" in Triumphant Songs No.2 Edwin Othello Excel USA 1851-1921. Born at Uniontown, OH, he started working as a bricklayer and plasterer. He loved music and went to Chicago to study it under George Root. He married Eliza Jane “Jennie” Bell in 1871. They had a son, William, in 1874. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became a prominent publisher, composer, song leader, and singer of music for church, Sunday school, and evangelistic meetings. He founded singing schools at various locations in the country and worked with evangelist, Sam Jones, as his song leader for two decades. He established a music publishing house in Chicago and authored or composed over 2,000 gospel songs. While assisting Gypsy Smith in an evangelistic campaign in Louisville, KY, he became ill, and died in Chicago, IL. He published 15 gospel music books between 1882-1925. He left an estate valued at $300,000. John Perry