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FATHER LEAD US

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: L. C. Everett Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 56531 21513 55231 Used With Text: Lead us, heav'nly Father, lead us

Lead us, heav'nly Father, lead us

Appears in 357 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lead us, heav'nly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea, guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but thee. Yet possessing, every blessing, If our God, our Father be. 2 Saviour! breathe forgiveness o'er us, All our weakness thou dost know. Thou didst tread this earth before us, Thou didst feel its keenest woe, Lone and dreary, faint and weary, Thro' the desert thou didst go. 3 Spirit of our God descending! Fill our hearts with heavenly joy, Love with every passion blending, Pleasure that can never cloy. Thus provided, pardoned, guided, Nothing can our peace destroy. Used With Tune: FATHER LEAD US

Sabbath Morning

Author: T. O. Summers, D. D. Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Sabbath morning! Sabbath morning! Lyrics: 1 Sabbath morning! Sabbath morning! Welcome, Sabbath morning bright; Up we rise, we need as warning, Glad to see its opening light. Glad to see the sun adorning With tis beams this Sabbath morning. 2 Sabbath morning! Sabbath morning! Hearts so blithe and eyes so bright! Off to school--we need no warning-- Off to school with footsteps light; Lessons learning, we're adorning Our young minds this Sabbath morning. Used With Tune: [Sabbath morning! Sabbath morning!]

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Sabbath Morning

Author: T. O. Summers, D. D. Hymnal: Light and Life #43 (1881) First Line: Sabbath morning! Sabbath morning! Lyrics: 1 Sabbath morning! Sabbath morning! Welcome, Sabbath morning bright; Up we rise, we need as warning, Glad to see its opening light. Glad to see the sun adorning With tis beams this Sabbath morning. 2 Sabbath morning! Sabbath morning! Hearts so blithe and eyes so bright! Off to school--we need no warning-- Off to school with footsteps light; Lessons learning, we're adorning Our young minds this Sabbath morning. Languages: English Tune Title: [Sabbath morning! Sabbath morning!]

Lead us, heav'nly Father, lead us

Hymnal: Kind Words #22 (1871) Lyrics: 1 Lead us, heav'nly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea, guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but thee. Yet possessing, every blessing, If our God, our Father be. 2 Saviour! breathe forgiveness o'er us, All our weakness thou dost know. Thou didst tread this earth before us, Thou didst feel its keenest woe, Lone and dreary, faint and weary, Thro' the desert thou didst go. 3 Spirit of our God descending! Fill our hearts with heavenly joy, Love with every passion blending, Pleasure that can never cloy. Thus provided, pardoned, guided, Nothing can our peace destroy. Languages: English Tune Title: FATHER LEAD US

Father Lead Us

Hymnal: Twilight Zephyrs #32 (1881) First Line: Lead us, heav'nly Father, lead us Languages: English Tune Title: [Lead us, heav'nly Father, lead us]

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L. C. Everett

1818 - 1867 Composer of "FATHER LEAD US" in Kind Words L. C. Everett's largest and most popular collection was The Wesleyan Hymn and Tune Book (1859), published by the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The denominational dedication page in that collection says it was "prepared by Mr. L.C. Everett, of Virginia, a gentleman well-known through the South and Southwest, as an author and teacher of sacred vocal music." In his own introductory remarks, Everett's instincts as an educator are clear. He advised churches to offer a weekly congregational singing class "for the purpose of meeting together frequently, say one evening each week, to practice the tunes under the direction of a suitably qualified chorister or leader, and ... that the entire congregation be invited to attend the rehearsals of the class and join in learning the tunes." For Everett, musical worship was not just the duty of a choir, it was the duty of everyone. Leonard’s brothers were Asa Brooks Everett (1828-1875), N.E. Everett, & Benjamin Holden Everett. Leonard and Asa developed a successful music education system called "The Everett System," and together with R.M. McIntosh they formed the L.C. Everett Company, which employed approximately fifty music teachers throughout the American south and middle Atlantic. —Chris Fenner see also J.H. Hall, Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1914), pp. 96-100.

Thomas O. Summers

1812 - 1882 Person Name: T. O. Summers, D. D. Author of "Sabbath Morning" in Light and Life Summers, Thomas Osmond, D.D., LL.D., son of James Summers, was born near Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire, England, Oct. 11, 1812. Proceeding to the United States in after years, he was admitted to the Baltimore Conference in 1835. From 1840 to 1843 he was a missionary in Texas; removing to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1844, and Charleston, South Carolina, 1846. From 1845 he acted as Secretary of the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was also Book Editor. Subsequently he was Professor of Theology and Pastor of Vanderbilt University. He was Chairman of the Hymn Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and edited the Songs of Zion, 1851, and the Wesleyan Psalter, 1855. He died in May 1882. Dr. Summers is the author of several original works, and of the following hymns:— 1. The morning bright, With rosy light. Morning. 2. The daylight fades, The evening shades. Evening. Concerning these Morning and Evening hymns Dr. Summers says:— ”My first child was born in January, 1845. When she was about a year old, as I was descending the Tombigbee River in a little steamer, I wrote a morning Hymn for her on the back of a letter, transcribed it when I reached Mobile, and sent it to her at Tuscaloosa. That was the origin of ‘The morning bright.' When editing the Southern Christian Advocate, I put it without name in the Child's Department. It was copied into the religious papers generally, and into books. My second child was born in 1847, and for her I wrote ‘The daylight fades,' as far as I can recollect, about 1849. . . . Both of these children for whom they were written are now singing hallelujahs with the angels." (Stevenson's Hymns for Church & Home, Biog. Index, 1873.) These hymns have attained to great popularity as children's hymns, and are found in numerous collections both at home and in Great Britain. The 3rd line of stanza i. of the Morning Hymn should read: "Has waked me up from sleep," and not as found in many collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)