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How Oft Doth Beauty Lead To Sin
Author: Susannah Harrison Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals
How Oft Doth Beauty Lead To Sin
ABIDING GRACE
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 22 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Spencer Camp Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 14321 17121 35645 Used With Text: How Oft Doth Beauty Lead To Sin
ABIDING GRACE
How Oft Doth Beauty Lead To Sin
Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8692 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 How oft doth beauty lead to sin,
And tempt the heart to stray;
It charms awhile, then hides again,
And soon it fades away!
2 Not all the art, and pains, and care
Of man can make it sure;
Nor can the fairest of the fair
The transient bliss secure.
3 Sickness and pain may soon disgrace
The most admirèd charms:
Soon must they sleep in death’s embrace,
And lose their lovely forms.
4 How vain is beauty, then, my Muse!
Unworthy of thy lays:
Turn, and a nobler subject choose,
Let virtue have thy praise.
5 How wise is she whose constant care
Pursues the heav’nly road:
She shall the Eternal’s favor share,
And every real good.
6 She ever shuns the snares of vice
How circumspect her ways!
Wise in simplicity she is;
Unsought her general praise.
7 If she is called to mingle souls,
How cautious is her choice;
No vain pretense her love controls,
She scorns the flatterer’s voice.
8 United, see, illustrious shines
The tender, prudent wife;
Humility her soul refines,
Grace governs all her life.
9 What undissembled love she bears
To him who has her hand:
How does she soften all his cares,
And all his woes attend!
10 Is she a friend? How kind and true!
Her charity, how pure!
Her friendship is not like the dew
That passes in an hour.
11 She shall be praised when beauty fails,
And years and age increase:
She shall be blest while grace prevails,
And end her days in peace. Languages: English Tune Title: ABIDING GRACE
How Oft Doth Beauty Lead To Sin
How oft doth beauty lead to sin
Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: A New Selection of Hymns #CI (1813) Languages: English
How oft doth beauty lead to sin
How oft doth beauty lead to sin
Hymnal: Songs in the Night (2nd ed.) #119 (1802)
How oft doth beauty lead to sin
Susannah Harrison
1752 - 1784 Person Name: Susanna Harrison Author of "How Oft Doth Beauty Lead To Sin" in The Cyber Hymnal Harrison, Susanna, invalided from her work as a domestic servant at the age of 20, published Songs in the Night, 1780. This included 133 hymns, and passed through ten editions. She is known by "Begone, my worldly cares, away," and "O happy souls that love the Lord." Born in 1752 and died Aug. 3, 1784.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Harrison, Susanna. (1752--August 3, 1784, Ipswich, England). The preface to the first edition of her collected hymns, Songs in the night, 1780, states that she was "a very obscure young woman, and quite destitute of the advantages of education, as well as under great bodily affliction. Her father dying when she was young, and leaving a large family unprovided for, she went out to service at sixteen years of age."
In August 1722, she became ill, probably with tuberculosis, and returned to her mother's home. She taught herself to write and in her remaining years she wrote 142 hymns which, with a few meditations, were published as Songs in the night by an anonymous editor, perhaps her rector. So sincere yet vivid is the expression of her faith as she faced certain death that by 1847 there had been eleven editions printed in England and seven additional ones in America.
Individual hymns remained popular in America during much of the nineteenth century due to the constant preoccupation with death in both urban and frontier life, reflected in the large sections of funeral hymns in most hymnals.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
Susannah Harrison
John Spencer Camp
1858 - 1946 Composer of "ABIDING GRACE" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: January 3, 1858, Middletown, Connecticut.
Died: February 1, 1946. The funeral was held at Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut.
Buried: Indian Hill Cemetery , Middletown, Connecticut.
Camp graduated from Wesleyan University in 1878 and received a Master of Arts in 1881. He went on to study law, but found that music was his true vocation. In 1882, he became organist at the Park Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut, and in 1906 organist at the Center Church in Hartford, Connecticut. He left the Center Church in 1921 to become director of the Austin Organ Company. He was awarded a Doctorate in Music by Trinity College in 1921, and a second doctorate from Wesleyan University in 1933.
Camp was a founder of the American Guild of Organists, 1896 and was President of the Connecticut Music Teachers’ Guild, 1898. For many years he conducted the Hartford Philharmonic Orchestra, which he organized. Among his benefactions is the John Spencer Camp Professorship of Music at Wesleyan University.
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
John Spencer Camp
