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The Book of Books

Author: Asa Hull Appears in 4 hymnals Hymnal Title: Gospel Praise Book. First Line: Blessed Bible, book divine Refrain First Line: Book of inspiration Lyrics: 1 Blessed Bible, book divine! What glory gilds thy page! Out of darkness thou dost shine, A light to every age! Chorus: Book of inspiration, Will of God made known; Book of invitation, Bidding all to come. Book of books, and Chart of charts, A light upon the way, Guiding youth and hoary age Up to the realms of day! 2 Blessed book! O holy word! For our instruction giv’n! Light and life its truths afford, It tells of home and heav’n! [Chorus] 3 Blessed message from above, Revealing mercy’s plan! Telling of the Father’s love, To lost, rebellious man! [Chorus] 4 Blessed tidings! bear them on To earth’s remotest bound! Bid the gloom of night be gone, Repeat the joyful sound! [Chorus] Used With Tune: [Blessed Bible, book divine]

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[Blessed Bible, book divine]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Tenney Hymnal Title: Gospel Praise Book. Incipit: 32321 71654 53232 Used With Text: The Book of Books

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Blessed Bible, book divine

Author: Asa Hull Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for the Use of Church of England Sunday Schools, Bible Classes ... New ed. #d34 (1862) Hymnal Title: A Selection of Hymns for the Use of Church of England Sunday Schools, Bible Classes ... New ed. Languages: English
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The Book of Books

Author: Asa Hull Hymnal: Gospel Praise Book. #275 (1885) Hymnal Title: Gospel Praise Book. First Line: Blessed Bible, book divine Refrain First Line: Book of inspiration Lyrics: 1 Blessed Bible, book divine! What glory gilds thy page! Out of darkness thou dost shine, A light to every age! Chorus: Book of inspiration, Will of God made known; Book of invitation, Bidding all to come. Book of books, and Chart of charts, A light upon the way, Guiding youth and hoary age Up to the realms of day! 2 Blessed book! O holy word! For our instruction giv’n! Light and life its truths afford, It tells of home and heav’n! [Chorus] 3 Blessed message from above, Revealing mercy’s plan! Telling of the Father’s love, To lost, rebellious man! [Chorus] 4 Blessed tidings! bear them on To earth’s remotest bound! Bid the gloom of night be gone, Repeat the joyful sound! [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Blessed Bible, book divine]
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The Book of Books

Author: Asa Hull Hymnal: Jewels of Praise #7 (1884) Hymnal Title: Jewels of Praise First Line: Blessed Bible, book divine Refrain First Line: Book of inspiration Languages: English Tune Title: [Blessed Bible, book divine]

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Asa Hull

1828 - 1907 Hymnal Title: Gospel Praise Book. Author of "The Book of Books" in Gospel Praise Book. Asa Hull USA 1828-1907. Born in Keene, NY, he became a music publisher in New York City. He married Emma F Atherton, and they had a daughter, Harriett. He wrote many tunes and authored temperance rallying songs. He published 33 works, of which 21 were songbooks, between 1863-1895. He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

J. H. Tenney

1840 - 1918 Hymnal Title: Gospel Praise Book. Composer of "[Blessed Bible, book divine]" in Gospel Praise Book. John Harrison Tenney, 1840-1918 Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1840, Row­ley, Mass­a­chu­setts. Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of "Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too," Ten­ney was named af­ter Amer­i­can pre­si­dent Will­iam Hen­ry Har­ri­son. A dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mass­a­chu­setts, he ed­it­ed or was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of over 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more. His works in­clude: Amer­i­can Male Choir Temperance Jew­els, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1879) Bells of Vic­to­ry, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Oliv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1888) Gems of Gos­pel Song Golden Sun­beams Sharon’s Dewy Rose Songs of Faith Shining Light Songs of Joy Sparkling and Bright Spiritual Songs, Nos. 1 and 2 Sweet Fields of Eden The Bea­con Light The Sing­ing School Ban­ner The An­them Of­fer­ing The Amer­i­can An­them Book The Crown of Praise Sources-- Hall, pp. 219-22 Music-- Asilomar Bogotá Beyond the Swell­ing Flood Cancún Come to Je­sus Ever Will I Pray Hallowed Hour of Pray­er Jesus Is Pass­ing This Way Jubilate! My An­chor Is Hold­ing Nothing Be­tween Onward Christ­ian Sol­diers Sabbath Bell San Fran­cis­co We’ll Ne­ver Say Good­bye Where Will You Spend Eter­ni­ty? --www.hymntime.com/tch