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[Christmas bells are ringing]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edmund Simon Lorenz Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51123 54653 51123 Used With Text: At Christmas Time

Author: Bertha E. Bush Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Christmas bells are ringing Lyrics: 1 Christmas bells are ringing, Ringing, ringing, Happy children singing, Christ is born. In the manger lowly Lay the Christ child holy, Angels singing, shepherds bringing, Love and praise. 2 While the star shone o’er Him, O’er Him, o’er Him, Wise men knelt before Him Where He lay. Forth they brought their treasure, Wealth beyond our measure, With hearts glowing, all bestowing, Hail Him king! 3 Gold and myrrh they brought Him, Brought Him, brought Him, Bearing gifts they sought Him, Far they came. Now, while bells are ringing, We, too, presents bringing, Bow before Him, low adore Him, Crown Him king. Used With Tune: [Christmas bells are ringing]

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At Christmas time

Author: Bertha E. Bush Hymnal: The King's Message #155 (1910) First Line: Christmas bells are ringing, ringing, ringing Topics: Christmas; Primary Languages: English Tune Title: [Christmas bells are ringing, ringing, ringing]

At Christmas Time

Author: Bertha E. Bush Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #9736 First Line: Christmas bells are ringing Lyrics: 1 Christmas bells are ringing, Ringing, ringing, Happy children singing, Christ is born. In the manger lowly Lay the Christ child holy, Angels singing, shepherds bringing, Love and praise. 2 While the star shone o’er Him, O’er Him, o’er Him, Wise men knelt before Him Where He lay. Forth they brought their treasure, Wealth beyond our measure, With hearts glowing, all bestowing, Hail Him king! 3 Gold and myrrh they brought Him, Brought Him, brought Him, Bearing gifts they sought Him, Far they came. Now, while bells are ringing, We, too, presents bringing, Bow before Him, low adore Him, Crown Him king. Languages: English Tune Title: [Christmas bells are ringing]

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Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: Edmund Simon Lorenz Composer of "[Christmas bells are ringing]" in The Cyber Hymnal Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund, ==================== Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900. Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany. He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889. Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934). For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree. --Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives