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Short Name: | Hezekiah Butterworth |
Full Name: | Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839–1905 |
Birth Year: | 1839 |
Death Year: | 1905 |
Butterworth, Hezekiah, was born at Warren, Rhode Island, Dec. 22, 1839. He wrote The Story of the Hymns, American Tract Society, 1875. He is the author of "0 Church of Christ, our blest abode" (The Church) in Root's cantata, Under the Palms, and of "Jesus, I Thee believe" (Jesus All in All) in the cantata Faith Triumphant.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Butterworth, Hezekiah, was born at Warren, R.I., Dec. 22, 1839, and died in 1905. His hymn, "Little ones of God are we" (Christ's Lambs), in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and other collections, is dated 1870.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Texts by Hezekiah Butterworth (50)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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A star is in the air, And its light is trailing low | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
A voice in the air and a star in the sky | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
Abana was a river | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 4 |
Again the rounded year has brought | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 4 |
Arise, O church of Jesus | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 4 |
Arise with joy and sing | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
I walked through the woodland meadows | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 39 |
At early morn when I awake | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
At my work I'm always singing | H. Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
By what I owe a mother's love | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
By your soul's best interests stand | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
"Dost thou love me?" said Jesus to Simon that day | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
Fair morn of the ages, the sealed tomb is broken | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
For us, O Lord, the year has brought | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
Form, form your mission bands | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 5 |
Hail, morn of the angel | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
How amiable God's altars were | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
How blessed the lot of the Christian | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
I am singing, always singing | H. Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
I have a hope that makes life sweet | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
Ich stand einst am grünen Hügel | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | German | 2 |
In youth I have my Savior found | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
Jesus, I Thee believe | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
Like Paul at Troas Hearing the Macedonian call | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | 3 | |
Little ones of God are we | H. Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
My Lord is mine from day to day | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
My peace I leave thee | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
Now upon the earth are beaming | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 4 |
O blest are they whose lives are nobly ended | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
O children's day in the summer's prize | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 5 |
O church of Christ, Jerusalem | H. Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
O church of Christ, our blest abode | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 5 |
O church, pursue thy march | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
O hearts young and faithful, what harmonies move | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
O radiant morn that breaks the night | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 4 |
Our Anniversary day behold | H. Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
¡Pequeñitos de Jesús! Ya venimos a cantar | H. Butterworth (Author) | Spanish | 2 |
The light that once in Judah shone | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 5 |
Thou art going now from our friendly sight | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
Thou art going out of the church tonight | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 4 |
To the Lord our Savior | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 4 |
We are marching home to Zion, To the blessed land above | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 1 |
We are marching home to Zion, we are marching day by day | Hezekikah Butterworth (Author) | English | 5 |
We meet with gladness on each lip | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
When by Moab's mountain | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 3 |
When, in the gates of Zion | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 4 |
When rose the temple on the sacred mountain | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
Where dwell the poor, where fall the weak | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | 2 | |
Ye people, rise and sing | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | English | 2 |
Ye who love the republic, remember the claim | Hezekiah Butterworth (Author) | 2 |