Heaven is here, where hymns of gladness

Author: John Greenleaf Adams

Adams, John Greenleaf. Co-editor with Dr. E. H. Chapin of the Universalist Hymns for Christian Devotion, 1846; and, alone, of the Gospel Psalmist, 1861. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1810. The collections named contain in each case 16 hymns by him. They are not, however, received outside his sect. The best are:— 1. Heaven is here, its hymns of gladness. [Peace.] Contributed to the Hymns for Christian Devotion, 1846, No. 419, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. 2. God's angels! not only on high do they sing. [Ministry of Angels.] No. 830 in his Gospel Psalmist, 1861, and No. 240 in Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, (1907)  Go to person page >

Heaven is here, where hymns of gladness. An altered form in the American Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904 (attributed there to John Quincy Adams), of "Heaven is here, its hymns of gladness," by J. G. Adams, p. 16, i. 1.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)