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Appears in 20 hymnals Hymnal Title: The Service Hymnal with an introductory service First Line: God, thou art good! each perfumed flower Used With Tune: [God, thou art good! each perfumed flower]

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CANTON

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. W. R. Hymnal Title: The Everlasting Joy Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 12712 34277 12123 Used With Text: God Thou art good, each perfumed flower

[God, thou art good! each perfumed flower]

Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: The Service Hymnal with an introductory service Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 56511 17123 3354 Used With Text: Goodness of God

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God, thou art good, each perfumed flower

Author: Mrs. Follen Hymnal: Christian Hymns for Public and Private Worship #149 (1847) Hymnal Title: Christian Hymns for Public and Private Worship Topics: Adoration, Praise, and Thanksgiving Languages: English

God, thou art good! each perfumed flower

Author: Mrs. Follen Hymnal: Church Harmonies #250 (1876) Hymnal Title: Church Harmonies Languages: English

God, thou art good, each perfumed flower

Author: Eliza Lee Follen Hymnal: Grammar School Hymn Book #d84 (1871) Hymnal Title: Grammar School Hymn Book Languages: English

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Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

1787 - 1860 Person Name: Eliza Lee Follen Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "God Thou art good, each perfumed flower" Follen, Eliza Lee, née Cabot, a well-known Unitarian writer, daughter of Samuel Cabot, born at Boston, August 15, 1787, and married, in 1828, to Professor Charles Follen, who perished on board the "Lexington," which was burnt on Long Island Sound, Jan. 13,1840. Mrs. Follen died at Brookline, Mass., 1860. She was a voluminous writer. Her Poems were first published at Boston (Crosby & Co.), 1839, and whilst she was in England she issued another volume for children's use, entitled The Lark and the Linnet, in 1854. Both volumes also contain some translations from the German, and versions of a few Psalms. Her best known hymns are:— 1. How sweet to be allowed to pray. Resignation. Appeared in the Christian Disciple, Sept., 1818, and in her Poems, 1839, p. 116, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled, "Thy will be done." 2. How sweet upon this sacred day. Sunday. In her Poems, 1839, pp. 113-114, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled “ Sabbath Day.” It previously appeared in Sabbath Recreations, 1829. 3. Lord, deliver, Thou canst save. Prayer for the Slave. Found in Songs of the Free, 1836; but is not given in her Poems, 1839. In Adams and Chapin's Hymns for Christian Devotion, Boston, U.S., 1846, it is No. 802, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines. In common with No. 2 it has found acceptance out¬side Unitarian Collections. 4. God, Thou art good, each perfumed flower. This is the original of J. H. Gurney's hymn," Yes, God is good," &c. (q.v.) There is some obscurity about the text. It is found in her Hymns for Children, Boston, 1825, beginning, "God is good," each perfumed flower," and this obvious misprint (which destroys the metre) was usually copied in later books. It is also given with the same first line as an original piece, never before published, and signed "E. L. C." (initials of Mrs. Follen's maiden name), in Emily Taylor's Sabbath Recreations, Wellington, Salop, 1826, p. 203. This suggests that it was printed in the American book after the US. was posted to England. Mrs. Follen may have written at first “Yes, God is good," but this cannot now be determined. It begins, “God, Thou art good," &c, in her Poems, 1839, p. 119, and in her verses, The Lark and the Linnet, &c, 1854, and in each case is in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, with the title, "God is Good." 5. Will God, Who made the earth and sea. A Child's Prayer. Given in her Poems, 1839, p. 164, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines. In Dr. Allon's Children's Worship, 1878, No. 212, it is abbreviated to 4 stanzas (i.-iv.), and attributed to H. Bateman in error. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

J. W. Randolph

b. 1842 Person Name: J. W. R. Hymnal Title: The Everlasting Joy Composer of "CANTON" in The Everlasting Joy James Weldon Randolph was born October 15, 1842, at Philadelphia, Pa. He attended Northern Liberty and James Bird's Schools. He has given special study to the subjects of music, French, German and Spanish, and received the D.D. degree from Paul Quinncollege. He was converted in 1863 and joined the A. M.E. Chruch the same year. He was licensed to preach and was ordained deacon in 1870 and elder in 1871 at Columbus, Ga. He has held appointments in George, Arkansas, Texas, California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. From Centennial Encyclpaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church by Richard R. Wright, Jr. and John R. Hawkins (Philadelphia: 1916)