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[When the King was born, on that Christmas morn]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Tune Key: D Flat Major Incipit: 55111 33555 11765 Used With Text: Led by the Star

Led by the Star

Author: Edith S. Tillotson Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: When the King was born, on that Christmas morn Used With Tune: [When the King was born, on that Christmas morn]

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Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #3631 First Line: When the King was born, on that Christmas morn Lyrics: 1. When the King was born, on that Christmas morn, In the humble Bethl’hem town, Over lands afar shone the Christmas Star, Flinging rays of glory down. There were wise men three, over hill and lea, Who beheld the promised sign; But with joy they knew its meaning true Told the Christ Child’s joy divine. Refrain Led by the Star, The wise men came from their homes afar, Seeking the Child, Whom men and angels sing. 2. So they went their way, on that Christmas day, Seeking out the newborn King, Bearing gifts so rare for the Christ Child fair, As the off’ring they would bring. And they came at last, with their journey past, And they knelt around His bed, And the Christmas Star they’d followed far Laid a crown on every head. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [When the King was born, on that Christmas morn]

Led by the Star

Author: Edith S. Tillotson Hymnal: Sunday School Voices, No.2 #197 (1913) First Line: When the King was born, on that Christmas morn Languages: English Tune Title: [When the King was born, on that Christmas morn]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Composer of "[When the King was born, on that Christmas morn]" in The Cyber Hymnal Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman

Edith Sanford Tillotson

1876 - 1968 Author of "Led by the Star" in The Cyber Hymnal Edith Sanford Tillotson was born and lived her entire life in Corona, New York. She wrote hymns for children as well as poems and librettos. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)