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Hymns of Childhood

Publication Date: 1939 Publisher: Tullar Meredith Co. Person Name: I. H. Meredith Publication Place: New York Editors: I. H. Meredith; Tullar Meredith Co.

Father in heaven, hear us today

Author: Charles G. Ames Appears in 34 hymnals Person Name: Charles G. Ames

Back of the loaf the snowy flour

Author: M. D. Babcock Appears in 7 hymnals Person Name: M. D. Babcock

Father in heaven, bless thy little children

Author: Martha Bayly Appears in 23 hymnals Person Name: Martha Bayly

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Father in heaven, hear us today

Author: Charles G. Ames Hymnal: HoC1939 #d25 (1939) Person Name: Charles G. Ames Languages: English

Back of the loaf the snowy flour

Author: M. D. Babcock Hymnal: HoC1939 #d12 (1939) Person Name: M. D. Babcock Languages: English

Father in heaven, bless thy little children

Author: Martha Bayly Hymnal: HoC1939 #d24 (1939) Person Name: Martha Bayly Languages: English

1828 - 1912 Person Name: Charles G. Ames Hymnal Number: d25 Author of "Father in heaven, hear us today" in Hymns of Childhood Ames, Charles Gordon. (Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1828-April 15, 1912, Boston, Massachusetts). He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1849 and spent some years as a home missionary in Minnesota. In 1859, he joined the Unitarian denomination and served several churches, his last pastorate being with the Church of the Disciples, Boston. In 1905, he wrote a hymn for the dedication of the new edifice of that Society, beginning "With loving hearts and hands we rear," which is included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914. A hymn beginning "Father in heaven, hear us today," is attributed to him in the Universalist Church Harmonies: Old and New, 1898, but is not found elsewhere. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Maltbie D. Babcock

1858 - 1901 Person Name: M. D. Babcock Hymnal Number: d12 Author of "Back of the loaf the snowy flour" in Hymns of Childhood Maltbie D. Babcock (b. Syracuse, NY, 1858; d. Naples, Italy, 1901) graduated from Syracuse University, New York, and Auburn Theological Seminary (now associated with Union Theological Seminary in New York) and became a Presbyterian minister. He served the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. In Baltimore he was especially popular with students from Johns Hopkins University, but he ministered to people from all walks of life. Babcock wrote hymn texts and devotional, poems, some of which were published in The School Hymnal (1899). Bert Polman =================== Babcock, Maltbie Davenport, D.D., was born at Syracuse, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1858. Graduating from Syracuse University, he was ordained to the Presbyterian Ministry and was pastor of churches in Lockport, N.Y., Baltimore, and N.Y. City. He died at Naples, Italy, May 18th, 1901. He was richly gifted, and his short career was memorable for the extraordinary influence of his personality and his preaching. Extracts from his sermons and poems were published in 1901 as Thoughts for Every Day Living; and his Biography by Dr. C. E. Robinson in 1904. He contributed to the Presbyterian School Hymnal, 1899, the following hymns:— 1. Gaily the bells are ringing. Faster. 2. O blessed Saviour, Lord of love. Unto Me. 3. Shining Sun, shining sun. Child's Hymn. The tunes to these hymns were of his own composing. In The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, there is:— 4. Rest in the Lord, my soul. Trust and Peace and in the American Methodist Hymnal, 1905:— 5. Be strong: we are not here to play. Activity in God's Service. Nos. 4 and 5 are from Thoughts for Every Day Living, 1901; but undated. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)