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CANTUS GLORIOSUS

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: F. L. Sealy Hymnal Title: Church Hymns and Tunes Incipit: 55321 17716 1125 Used With Text: It came upon the midnight clear

It came upon the midnight clear

Author: Rev. Edmund H. Sears Appears in 869 hymnals Hymnal Title: Church Hymns and Tunes Used With Tune: CANTUS GLORIOSUS

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It came upon the midnight clear

Author: Rev. Edmund H. Sears Hymnal: Church Hymns and Tunes #131b (1906) Hymnal Title: Church Hymns and Tunes Languages: English Tune Title: CANTUS GLORIOSUS

It came upon the midnight clear

Hymnal: Common Praise #149b (1913) Hymnal Title: Common Praise Languages: English Tune Title: CANTUS GLORIOSUS

1810 - 1876 Person Name: Rev. Edmund H. Sears Hymnal Title: Church Hymns and Tunes Author of "It came upon the midnight clear" in Church Hymns and Tunes Edmund Hamilton Sears was born in Berkshire [County], Massachusetts, in 1810; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, in 1834, and at the Theological School of Harvard University, in 1837. He became pastor of the Unitarian Society in Wayland, Mass., in 1838; removed to Lancaster in 1840; but on account of ill health was obliged to retire from the active duties of the ministry in 1847; since then, residing in Wayland, he devoted himself to literature. He has published several works. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872 ======================= Sears, Edmund Hamilton, D.D., son of Joseph Sears, was born at Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, April 6, 1810, and educated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., where he graduated in 1834; and at the Theological School at Cambridge. In 1838 he became pastor of the First Church (Unitarian) at Wayland, Massachusetts; then at Lancaster in the same State, in 1840; again at Wayland, in 1847; and finally at Weston, Massachusetts, in 1865. He died at Weston, Jan. 14, 1876. He published:— (1) Regeneration, 1854; (2) Pictures of the Olden Time, 1857; (3) Athanasia, or Foregleams of Immortality, 1858, enlarged ed., 1872; (4) The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ; (5) Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life, 1875, in which his hymns are collected. Also co-editor of the Monthly Religious Magazine. Of his hymns the following are in common use:— 1. Calm on the listening ear of night. Christmas. This hymn was first published in its original form, in the Boston Observer, 1834; afterwards, in the Christian Register, in 1835; subsequently it was emended by the author, and, as thus emended, was reprinted entire in the Monthly Magazine, vol. xxxv. Its use is extensive. 2. It came upon the midnight clear. Christmas. "Rev. Dr. Morison writes to us, Sears's second Christmas hymn was sent to me as editor of the Christian Register, I think, in December, 1849. I was very much delighted with it, and before it came out in the Register, read it at a Christmas celebration of Dr. Lunt's Sunday School in Quincy. I always feel that, however poor my Christmas sermon may be, the reading and singing of this hymn are enough to make up for all deficiences.'" 3. Ho, ye that rest beneath the rock. Charitable Meetings on behalf of Children. Appeared in Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. Dr. Sears's two Christmas hymns rank with the best on that holy season in the English language. Although a member of the Unitarian body, his views were rather Swedenborgian than Unitarian. He held always to the absolute Divinity of Christ. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Frank L. Sealy

1858 - 1938 Person Name: F. L. Sealy Hymnal Title: Church Hymns and Tunes Composer of "CANTUS GLORIOSUS" in Church Hymns and Tunes Organist, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York