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SAXONY

Appears in 5 hymnals Incipit: 55312 12315 531 Used With Text: Praise to thee, thou great Creator!

Jesus, o'er the grave victorious

Author: Rev. E. E. Higbee Appears in 11 hymnals Used With Tune: SAXONY

Praise to thee, thou great Creator!

Appears in 275 hymnals Used With Tune: SAXONY

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Jesus, o'er the grave victorious

Author: Rev. E. E. Higbee Hymnal: The Sunday School Hymnal #88 (1899) Lyrics: 1 Jesus, o’er the grave victorious, Conquering death, and conquering hell, Reign Thou in Thy might all glorious, Heav’n and earth Thy triumph swell. 2 Saints in Thee approach the Father Asking in Thy name alone; He, in Thee, with love increasing, Gives and glorifies the Son. 3 By a life of love and labor Doing all the Father’s will; Giving to each suppliant sufferer, Precious balm for every ill. 4 Here, in Thee, is peace forever; We can tribulation bear; Kiss Thy cross, with rapture knowing Thou hast conquered suffering there. Topics: Ascension; Cross; Death; Hell; Jesus; Prayer Tune Title: SAXONY

Jesus, o'er the grave victorious

Author: Rev. E. E. Higbee Hymnal: The Sunday School Hymnal #88 (1900) Languages: English Tune Title: SAXONY

Jesus, o'er the grave victorious

Author: Rev. E. E. Higbee Hymnal: The Praise Hymnal #88 (1908) Languages: English Tune Title: SAXONY

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Henry K. Oliver

1800 - 1885 Person Name: Henry Kemble Oliver, (1800-1885) Composer of "SAXONY" in The Sunday School Hymnal Henry Kemble Oliver (b. Beverly, MA, 1800; d. Salem, MA, 1885) was educated at Harvard and Dartmouth. He taught in the public schools of Salem (1818-1842) and was superintendent of the Atlantic Cotton Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1848-1858). His civic service included being mayor of Lawrence (18591861) and Salem (1877-1880), state treasurer (1861-1865), and organizer of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics and Labor (1867-1873). Oliver was organist at several churches, including Park Street Congregational Church in Boston, North Church in Salem, and the Unitarian Church in Lawrence. A founder of the Mozart Association and several choral societies in Salem, he published his hymn tunes in Hymn and Psalm Tunes (1860) and Original Hymn Tunes (1875). Bert Polman

E. E. Higbee

1830 - 1889 Person Name: Rev. E. E. Higbee Author of "Jesus, o'er the grave victorious" in The Sunday School Hymnal Born: March 27, 1830, St. George (near Burlington), Vermont. Died: December 13, 1889. Buried: Emmitsburg, Maryland. Son of state legislator Lewis Higbee and Sarah Baker Higbee, Elnathan was educated at the University of Vermont, graduating in 1849. By the time of his graduation, he had already begun teaching school in Burlington at age 16; his first permanent position was as an assistant teacher at an academy in Woodstock, Vermont. He stayed there only a short time before moving to another teaching position in Emmitsburg, Maryland, becoming head of the mathematical and classical departments at a school organized by his brother-in-law, George W. Aughinbaugh. In 1850, he accepted a position s a private tutor in the family of Joshua Motter of Emmitsburg, among whose daughters he found his future wife. Around late 1851 or early 1852, Higbee entered the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, where Philip Schaff was among his teachers. He went on to become a preacher, poet, and educator, and for nine years, served as Superintendent of Public Instruction of Pennsylvania. After seminary, he taught mathematics at the high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for a year. Later in his life, when he was state superintendent for education, he would discover one of his old pupils had become principal of the Lancaster high school. In 1845, Higbee was licensed to preach the Gospel by the Maryland Classis of the Reformed Church. His first pastorate was at the Congregational Church in Bethel, Vermont. In 1858, he returned to Emmitsburg, and 1859 to the First Reformed Church of Tiffin, Ohio, where he also filled the chair of Latin and Greek at Heidelberg College. In 1862, he moved to Pittsburgh to become pastor of Grace Church. In 1864, he became professor of Church History and New Testament Exegesis at the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. While there, he was of the prime movers in the foundation of Mercersburg College in 1865. In 1881, Governor Hoyt appointed him State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Pennsylvania. Sources: Pennsylvania School Journal www.hymntime.com/tch/