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Life of all that lives below!

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Life of all that lives below!
Author: Charles Wesley
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

PLEYEL'S HYMN


HEROLD


HENDON (Malan)

HENDON was composed by Henri A. Cesar Malan (b. Geneva, Switzerland, 1787; d. Vandoeuvres, Switzerland, 1864) and included in a series of his own hymn texts and tunes that he began to publish in France in 1823, and which ultimately became his great hymnal Chants de Sion (1841). HENDON is thought to…

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Good-Will Songs #203

Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home and Services for Congregational Worship. Rev. ed. #d349

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Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home. (Rev. ed.) #253

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Hymnal Amore Dei #246

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Hymnal for Christian Science Church and Sunday School Services #36

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Hymnal, Amore Dei #246

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Hymnal, Amore Dei. Rev. ed. #a246

Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America #53

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Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book #93

The Gospel Hymnal #d338

The Mennonite Hymnary, published by the Board of Publication of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America #238

Universal Hymns #110

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