[In the silent midnight watches] (Root)

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[In the silent midnight watches] (Root)

Composer: George F. Root
Published in 18 hymnals

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Composer: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	[In the silent midnight watches] (Root)
Composer:	George F. Root
Meter:	8.5.8.5 D
Incipit:	33333 34322 32133
Key:	E♭ Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

The Heavenly Visitor

In der stillen Nächte Stunden

In the Silent Midnight Watches

In the silent midnight watches,
Standing at your door,
Calls the Savior, pleading, knocking,
Now as oft before.
He would enter with salvation,
Heart oppressed by sin!
Open now the door for Jesus,
Let Him enter in!

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