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A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify
Appears in 1,350 hymnals
A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify
[Come, O thou Traveller unknown]
Appears in 16 hymnals First Line: Come, O thou Traveler unknown Tune Key: E Major Incipit: 13531 31612 22316 Used With Text: Come, O thou Traveler unknown
[Come, O thou Traveller unknown]
A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify
Hymnal: ToP1871 #338 (1871)
A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify
J. W. Dadmun
1819 - 1890 Person Name: Rev. J. W. Dadmun First Line: Come all ye saints to Pisgah's mountain Hymnal Number: 592 Author of "O the prospect! it is so transpsorting" in The Tribute of Praise Rv John William Dadmun USA 1819-1890. Born at Cambridge, MA, he completed his education at the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, MA. At 22 he joined the New England Methodist Conference and pastored churches in the towns of Ludlow, Southhampton, South Hadley Falls, Enfield, Ware, Monson, Ipswich, and Lowell, the first Methodist Church and Grace Church, Boston and First Church, Boston Highlands. For a number of years he was also prison Chaplain and Superintendent of schools in the city institutions of Boston at Deer Island, off the coast of Maine. He married Lucy Ann Dutton, and they had seven children: Lucy, Wiletta, Francina, Charles,William and two others. He was initiated into Masonry at the Mt. Lebanon Lodge in Boston, MA, and served as Grand Chaplain and District Deputy Grand Master, which he immensely enjoyed. He rose in ranks within the organization and was instrumental in forming the Mt. Vernon Chapter in Roxbury, MA. He was elected Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of MA. He was Knighted into the De Molay Commandery in Boston, serving several years and rising to Grand Prelate of MA & RI, and attained to a number of other significant positions within the Masons. In later years, after Lucy died, he married Martha Jane Rogers. He collected songs and contributed lyrics to some, publishing a number of song books: “Army & Navy melodies” (1862), “The Melodian” (1862), “Revival melodies” , “The Eolian harp” (1860), “The sacred harmonium”, “new revival melodies”, “Musical string of pearls”, The Masonic choir” (1864), “The humming bird”, “Union league melodies”, “The new golden chain of Sabbath school melodies”, “The olive leaf”, “The timbrel” (1866), and others. Copies of these works have been sold around the world. He died at Boston, MA.
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J. W. Dadmun
W. McDonald
1820 - 1901 Person Name: Rev. Wm. McDonald First Line: I am coming to the cross Hymnal Number: 619 Author of "I am trusting, Lord, in thee" in The Tribute of Praise McDonald, Rev. William. (Belmont, Maine, March 1, 1820--September 11, 1901, Monrovia, California). Becoming a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1839 he was admitted to the Maine Conference in 1843, being transferred to that of Wisconsin in 1855 and of New England in 1859. For a number of years he was editor of the Advocate of Christian Holiness. In addition to being a writer of biographies and religious books, he compiled, or assisted in compiling, a number of song books of the gospel song type, among them being the Western Minstrel (1840), Wesleyan Minstrel (1853), Beulah Songs (1870), Tribute of Praise (1874). This last book was that which had been compiled by McDonald and L.F. Snow, and re-edited by Eben Tourjée, appeared in 1882 as the official hymnal of the Methodist Protestant Church. From 1870 he spent many years in evangelistic work before his retirement to Monrovia.
Sources: Metcalf, Frank J., American Writers and Compilers of Sacred Music; Tillett, Wilbur F., Our Hymns and Their Authors; Nutter and Tillett, Hymns and Hymn Writers of the Church; McCutchan, Robert G., Our Hymnody; Benson, L.F., The English Hymn.
--Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives
W. McDonald
Annie Wittenmyer
1827 - 1900 Person Name: Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer First Line: I have entered the valley of blessing so sweet Hymnal Number: 643 Author of "Oh come to this valley of blessing so sweet" in The Tribute of Praise Sarah Ann Turner; b. 8/26/1827; d. 2/2/1900; Wittenmyer, Annie (Turner) 1827-1900; usage: Annie Wittenmyer
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