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Come, ye that love the Lord

Author: Rev. Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,787 hymnals Topics: Happiness Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS

How can I keep from singing?

Author: Lowry Appears in 144 hymnals Topics: Happiness First Line: My life flows on in endless song Used With Tune: MY LIFE FLOWS ON

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 217 hymnals Topics: Happiness First Line: Blest are the humble souls that see Lyrics: 1 Blest are the humble souls that see their emptiness and poverty; treasures of grace to them are giv'n, and crowns of joy laid up in heaven. 2 Blest are the men of broken heart, who mourn for sin with inward smart; the blood of Christ divinely flows, a healing balm for all their woes. 3 Blest are the meek, who stand afar from rage and passion, noise and war; God will secure their happy state, and plead their cause against the great. 4 Blest are the souls that thirst for grace, hunger and long for righteousness; they shall be well supplied, and fed with living streams and living bread. 5 Blest are the men whose heart do move and melt with sympathy and love; from Christ the Lord shall they obtain like sympathy and love again. 6 Blest are the pure, whose hearts are clean from the defiling pow'rs of sin; with endless pleasure they shall see a God of spotless purity. 7 Blest are the men of peaceful life, who quench the coals of growing strife; they shall be called the heirs of bliss, the sons of God, the God of peace. 8 Blest are the suff'rers who partake of pain and shame for Jesus' sake; their souls shall triumph in the Lord, glory and joy are their reward. Scripture: Matthew 5:3-12 Used With Tune: QUEBEC

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LANCASHIRE

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 617 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry T. Smart Topics: Gladness / Happiness Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 55346 53114 56255 Used With Text: Lead on, O King eternal

GENEVAN 42

Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7.8.8 Appears in 299 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Louis Bourgeois, c.1510-1561 Topics: Gladness / Happiness Tune Key: f sharp minor Incipit: 12321 76512 34321 Used With Text: Spirit, come, dispel our sadness

SCHMÜCKE DICH

Appears in 136 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Crüger, 1598-1662 Topics: Gladness / Happiness Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 32123 54353 43213 Used With Text: Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness

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The dignity and happiness of the Christian

Hymnal: Psalms and Hymns, for the Use of the German Reformed Church, in the United States of America. (2nd ed.) #205 (1834) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Blessings of the Covenant Happiness of the Christian First Line: Honor and happiness unite

O happiness, thou pleasing dream!

Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and A Liturgy #267 (1814) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: The Joy and Happiness of True Christians Lyrics: 1 O happiness, thou pleasing dream! Where is thy substance found? Sought through the varying scenes, in vain, Of earth's capacious round. 2 Religion's sacred lamp alone Unerring points the way, Where happiness for ever shines With unpolluted ray. Languages: English

The happiness of a Christian

Hymnal: Psalms and Hymns, for the Use of the German Reformed Church, in the United States of America. (2nd ed.) #204 (1834) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Blessings of the Covenant Happiness of the Christian First Line: O happy soul that lives on high!

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George C. Stebbins

1846 - 1945 Person Name: Geo. C. Stebbins Topics: Happiness Composer of "[True-hearted, whole-hearted, faithful and loyal]" in Church Gospel Songs and Hymns Stebbins studied music in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, then became a singing teacher. Around 1869, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, to join the Lyon and Healy Music Company. He also became the music director at the First Baptist Church in Chicago. It was in Chicago that he met the leaders in the Gospel music field, such as George Root, Philip Bliss, & Ira Sankey. At age 28, Stebbins moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became music director at the Claredon Street Baptist Church; the pastor there was Adoniram Gordon. Two years later, Stebbins became music director at Tremont Temple in Boston. Shortly thereafter, he became involved in evangelism campaigns with Moody and others. Around 1900, Stebbins spent a year as an evangelist in India, Egypt, Italy, Palestine, France and England. (www.hymntime.com/tch)

W. Howard Doane

1832 - 1915 Person Name: William H. Doane Topics: Happiness Composer of "[To God be the glory, great things He hath done]" in Church Gospel Songs and Hymns An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman ============ Doane, William Howard, p. 304, he was born Feb. 3, 1832. His first Sunday School hymn-book was Sabbath Gems published in 1861. He has composed about 1000 tunes, songs, anthems, &c. He has written but few hymns. Of these "No one knows but Jesus," "Precious Saviour, dearest Friend," and "Saviour, like a bird to Thee," are noted in Burrage's Baptist Hymn Writers. 1888, p. 557. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =================== Doane, W. H. (William Howard), born in Preston, Connecticut, 1831, and educated for the musical profession by eminent American and German masters. He has had for years the superintendence of a large Baptist Sunday School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resides. Although not a hymnwriter, the wonderful success which has attended his musical setting of numerous American hymns, and the number of his musical editions of hymnbooks for Sunday Schools and evangelistic purposes, bring him within the sphere of hymnological literature. Amongst his collections we have:— (1) Silver Spray, 1868; (2) Pure Gold, 1877; (3) Royal Diadem, 1873; (4) Welcome Tidings, 1877; (5) Brightest and Best, 1875; (6) Fountain of Song; (7) Songs of Devotion, 1870; (8) Temple Anthems, &c. His most popular melodies include "Near the Cross," "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," "Pass me Not," "More Love to Thee," "Rescue the Perishing," "Tell me the Old, Old Story," &c. - John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Rufus H. McDaniel

1850 - 1940 Person Name: R. H. McDaniel Topics: Happiness Author of "Since Jesus Came Into My Heart" in Church Gospel Songs and Hymns Rufus H. McDaniel was ordained in the Christian church in 1873. He found much joy in church music. He began writing hymns in the 1880's. He wrote, "I feel in my soul that God has something for me to do in brightening the experience of struggling souls. My chief desire is to be a blessing, if possible, to my fellow-men through these hymns and thereby glorify God in the name of his dear son 'whose I am and whom I serve.'" Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

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