[The fields are white with the ripened grain]

[The fields are white with the ripened grain]

Composer: J. C. Ewing
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Composer: J. C. Ewing

John Cook Ewing (1849-1937), who usually referred to himself as J.C. Ewing, was the pioneer Brethren musician, music teacher and composer. Before providing a synopsis of Ewing’s life and work it is appropriate to identify the Brethren of whom we are speaking, for several denominations have the term Brethren in their names, and to relate the religious and hymnological culture within which J. C. Ewing served. In the nineteenth century this particular body called themselves The Fraternity of German Baptists and the German Baptist Brethren. Their beginnings in 1708 were in the little village of Schwarzenau, Germany under the leadership of Alexander Mack Sr. (1679-1735). Due to religious persecution of Anabaptists, most of these Brethren… Go to person page >

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Title: [The fields are white with the ripened grain]
Composer: J. C. Ewing
Incipit: 55131 12164 33132

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The Brethren Hymnody #309

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