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Rejoice Hymns

Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: Majesty Music Publication Place: Greenville, SC Editors: Shelly Hamilton

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: Irregular Appears in 742 hymnals First Line: Rejoice, the Lord is King! Topics: Adoration and Praise; Jesus Kingship and Reign; Joy Scripture: Hebrews 1:3 Used With Tune: DARWAL

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Author: Joachim Neander, 1650-1680; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 Meter: Irregular Appears in 384 hymnals First Line: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation Topics: Adoration and Praise; God Majesty and Power; Jesus Kingship and Reign Used With Tune: LOBE DEN HERREN

And Can It Be?

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 286 hymnals First Line: And can it be that I should gain Topics: God Love; God Mercy Scripture: Acts 16:25-26 Used With Tune: SAGINA

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Tunes

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CHRISTMAS

Appears in 628 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George Frederick Handel, 1685-1759 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 34517 65123 34555 Used With Text: While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks

EIN' FESTE BURG

Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Appears in 642 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Luther, 1483-1546 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 11156 71765 17656 Used With Text: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

CANONBURY

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 590 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Robert Schumann, 1810-1856 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 53334 32123 56712 Used With Text: Lord, Speak to Me

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Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Author: Henry van Dyke, 1852-1933 Hymnal: RH2011 #1 (2011) Meter: 8.7.7.7 D First Line: Joyful, joyful we adore Thee Topics: God Creator; God Father; God Mercy; Joy; Victory; Wedding; Adoration and Praise Languages: English Tune Title: HYMN TO JOY

Come, Christians, Join to Sing

Author: Christian H. Bateman, 1813-1889 Hymnal: RH2011 #2 (2011) Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Topics: Adoration and Praise; Jesus Friend Languages: English Tune Title: MADRID

Almighty, Unchangeable God

Author: Cindy Berry, 1949- Hymnal: RH2011 #3 (2011) Meter: Irregular First Line: Who spread out the clouds before Him? Refrain First Line: He is almighty, unchangeable God Topics: Adoration and Praise; God Attributes; God Faithfulness; God Majesty and Power Languages: English Tune Title: ALMIGHTY UNCHANGEABLE

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People

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Person Name: James Rowe, 1865-1933 Hymnal Number: 115 Author of "Love Lifted Me" in Rejoice Hymns Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Thomas O. Chisholm

1866 - 1960 Person Name: Thomas O. Chisholm, 1866-1960 Hymnal Number: 119 Author of "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" in Rejoice Hymns Thomas O. Chisholm was born in Franklin, Kentucky in 1866. His boyhood was spent on a farm and in teaching district schools. He spent five years as editor of the local paper at Franklin. He was converted to Christianity at the age of 26 and soon after was business manager and office editor of the "Pentecostal Herald" of Louisville, Ky. In 1903 he entered the ministry of the M. E. Church South. His aim in writing was to incorporate as much as Scripture as possible and to avoid flippant or sentimental themes. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) ============================== Signed letter from Chisholm dated 9 August 1953 located in the DNAH Archives.

Edmund H. Sears

1810 - 1876 Person Name: Edmund H. Sears, 1810-1876 Hymnal Number: 194 Author of "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" in Rejoice Hymns Edmund Hamilton Sears was born in Berkshire [County], Massachusetts, in 1810; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, in 1834, and at the Theological School of Harvard University, in 1837. He became pastor of the Unitarian Society in Wayland, Mass., in 1838; removed to Lancaster in 1840; but on account of ill health was obliged to retire from the active duties of the ministry in 1847; since then, residing in Wayland, he devoted himself to literature. He has published several works. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872 ======================= Sears, Edmund Hamilton, D.D., son of Joseph Sears, was born at Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, April 6, 1810, and educated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., where he graduated in 1834; and at the Theological School at Cambridge. In 1838 he became pastor of the First Church (Unitarian) at Wayland, Massachusetts; then at Lancaster in the same State, in 1840; again at Wayland, in 1847; and finally at Weston, Massachusetts, in 1865. He died at Weston, Jan. 14, 1876. He published:— (1) Regeneration, 1854; (2) Pictures of the Olden Time, 1857; (3) Athanasia, or Foregleams of Immortality, 1858, enlarged ed., 1872; (4) The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ; (5) Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life, 1875, in which his hymns are collected. Also co-editor of the Monthly Religious Magazine. Of his hymns the following are in common use:— 1. Calm on the listening ear of night. Christmas. This hymn was first published in its original form, in the Boston Observer, 1834; afterwards, in the Christian Register, in 1835; subsequently it was emended by the author, and, as thus emended, was reprinted entire in the Monthly Magazine, vol. xxxv. Its use is extensive. 2. It came upon the midnight clear. Christmas. "Rev. Dr. Morison writes to us, Sears's second Christmas hymn was sent to me as editor of the Christian Register, I think, in December, 1849. I was very much delighted with it, and before it came out in the Register, read it at a Christmas celebration of Dr. Lunt's Sunday School in Quincy. I always feel that, however poor my Christmas sermon may be, the reading and singing of this hymn are enough to make up for all deficiences.'" 3. Ho, ye that rest beneath the rock. Charitable Meetings on behalf of Children. Appeared in Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. Dr. Sears's two Christmas hymns rank with the best on that holy season in the English language. Although a member of the Unitarian body, his views were rather Swedenborgian than Unitarian. He held always to the absolute Divinity of Christ. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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