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Person Name: Anon. Author of "O Lamb of God Most Lowly" in Northfield Hymnal No. 2 In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
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H. R. Palmer
1834 - 1907 Person Name: H. R. P. Arranger of "[O Lamb of God most lowly!]" in Garnered Gems Palmer, Horatio Richmond, MUS. DOC, was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and 5 of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881.
His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymnwriter he is known by his "Yield not to temptation," which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love, &c, 1874, and other collections. In America its use is extensive. Dr. Palmer's degree was conferred by the University of Chicago in 1880.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Palmer, H. R., p. 877, i. The hymn "Would you gain the best in life" (Steadfastness), in the Congregational Sunday School Supplement, 1891, the Council School Hymn Book, 1905, and others, is by this author.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
H. R. Palmer
Henry Lahee
1826 - 1912 Person Name: H. Lahee Composer of "[O Lamb of God most lowly]" in The Spirit of Praise Born: April 11, 1826, Chelsea, London, England.
Died: April 29, 1912, London, England.
Lahee studied under John Goss and William Sterndale Bennett. He played the organ at several churches, including Holy Trinity Church, Brompton (1847-74). He won prizes for his compositions in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and London, and set to music poems by Edgar Allen Poe ("The Bells"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Building of the Ship") and Alfred Tennyson ("Sleeping Beauty"). His works include:
Metrical Psalter, with William Irons, 1855
Famous Singers of Today and Yesterday, 1898
One Hundred Hymn Tunes
Sources:
Frost, p. 680
CS Concordance, pp. 246-47
Nutter, p. 460
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Henry Lahee
W. P. Balfern
1818 - 1887 Author of "O Lamb of God, most lowly" in The Church Hymnal Balfern, William Poole, born in 1818, at Hammersmith; entered the Baptist Ministry in 1848; and has laboured chiefly in the suburbs of London, and in Brighton. Mr. Balfern is the author of Glimpses of Jesus and other prose works of similar character, has been a frequent contributor to Religious Periodicals, and has published the following vols. of poetry:—
(1) The Beauty of the Great King, and other Poems, 1871, Lond., Passmore and Alabaster. (2) Lyrics for the Heart, 1876. (Same publishers) (3) Hymns of the Passion, 1882, Lond., Nelson and Sons. (4) Pilgrim Chimes for the Weeks of the Year, 1881, is a selection from Mr. Balfern's poems made and published by Rev. Chas. Bullock.
Mr. Balfern's hymns have appeared in the Baptist Hymnal ; Psalms & Hymns for the Young; the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book; Songs of Gladness (S. S. Union); Book of Hymns for Sunday School, Lond., Weeks & Co.; Treasury of Sacred Song, Kirkwall, W. Peace; and in a few collections of the Church of England.
They include:—
1. Come unto Me, the Saviour speaks [said]. Invitation.
2. Hark, dear children, hear the angels. Sunday.
3. 0 gentle Teacher, ever near. Divine Teacher.
4. 0 Lamb of God, most lowly [holy]. Holiness of Jesus.
5. 0 morning star, whose distant ray. Divine Guidance.
6. 0 Thou Who art enthroned on high. Praise.
7. Shepherd of those sunlit mountains. The Good Shepherd.
All these hymns were contributed to the Sunday School Union Songs of Gladness, 1871, and from thence have passed into other collections.
8. Say not, 0 wounded heart. Love of Jesus.
From his work, The Beauty of the Great King, 1871, into the Baptist Hymnal, 1879.
Whilst these hymns do not take a high rank as poetry, they are characterised by simplicity of expression, and by devout and earnest, often tender, Christian feeling. Balfern died July 3, 1887. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
W. P. Balfern
