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Infant Praises

Publication Date: 1887 Publisher: John J. Hood Publication Place: Philadelphia Editors: Jno. R. Sweney; Wm. J. Kirkpatrick; John J. Hood

Happy Day

Appears in 601 hymnals First Line: There is a happy land, Far, far away Used With Tune: [There is a happy land, Far, far away]

I Am Coming to the Cross

Author: Rev. Wm. McDonald Appears in 841 hymnals Refrain First Line: I am trusting, Lord, in thee Used With Tune: [I am coming to the cross]

Hushed Was the Evening Hymn

Appears in 236 hymnals Used With Tune: [Hushed was the evening hymn]

[Hear the pennies dropping]

Appears in 25 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Incipit: 33345 15543 23334 Used With Text: Dropping Pennies

[Mary stood beside the tomb]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jno. R. Sweney Incipit: 33234 33213 21533 Used With Text: Jesus Knows My Name

[Four little fingers said one day]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Jno. R. Sweney Incipit: 33332 16511 23555 Used With Text: No; not I!

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

We are Little Children

Author: Fanny J. Crosby Hymnal: IP1887 #1 (1887) Refrain First Line: All the day, all the day Languages: English Tune Title: [We are little children]

I'm Always Glad when Sunday comes

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: IP1887 #4 (1887) Languages: English Tune Title: [I'm always glad when Sunday comes]

Author: Rev. C. W. Ray, D.D. Hymnal: IP1887 #5 (1887) First Line: Lord, teach a little child to pray Refrain First Line: When'er I lift my heart to thee Languages: English Tune Title: [Lord, teach a little child to pray]

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People

Authors, composers, editors, etc.

W. G. Fischer

1835 - 1912 Person Name: Wm. G. Fischer Hymnal Number: 87 Composer of "[I am coming to the cross]" in Infant Praises William Gustavus Fischer In his youth, William G. Fischer (b. Baltimore, MD, 1835; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1912) developed an interest in music while attending singing schools. His career included working in the book bindery of J. B. Lippencott Publishing Company, teaching music at Girard College, and co-owning a piano business and music store–all in Philadelphia. Fischer eventually became a popular director of music at revival meetings and choral festivals. In 1876 he conducted a thousand-voice choir at the Dwight L. Moody/Ira D. Sankey revival meeting in Philadelphia. Fischer composed some two hundred tunes for Sunday school hymns and gospel songs. Bert Polman

Arthur Sullivan

1842 - 1900 Person Name: A. Sullivan Hymnal Number: 104 Composer of "[Hushed was the evening hymn]" in Infant Praises Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas. Bert Polman

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal Number: 73 Author of "Because He Loves Me so" in Infant Praises Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

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