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Thank we now the Lord of heaven

Author: Henry W. Hawkes, 1843-1917 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Thank we now the Lord of heav'n Refrain First Line: Topics: Christmas Used With Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM

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DIVINUM MYSTERIUM

Appears in 166 hymnals Incipit: 12343 23213 45653 Used With Text: Thank we now the Lord of heaven

MAIDSTONE

Appears in 109 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Walter Bond Gilbert Incipit: 56712 34323 54323 Used With Text: Thank we now the Lord of heaven

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Thank we now the Lord of heaven

Author: Henry W. Hawkes, 1843-1917 Hymnal: The Beacon Song and Service book #210 (1935) Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7.7 First Line: Thank we now the Lord of heav'n Refrain First Line: Topics: Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM

Thank we now the Lord of heaven

Author: Henry Warburton Hawkes Hymnal: Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America #172 (1937) Languages: English Tune Title: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM

Thank we now the Lord of heaven

Author: Henry Warburton Hawkes Hymnal: Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book #197 (1914) Languages: English Tune Title: MAIDSTONE

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Walter Bond Gilbert

1829 - 1910 Composer of "MAIDSTONE" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book Walter Bond Gilbert DMus United Kingdom 1829-1910. Born at Exeter, Devon, England, he studied music under Alfred Angel, Samuel Wesley and Henry Bishop. He attended New College, Oxford and the University of Toronto, Canada. He was organist in Devon at Topsham in 1847, Bideford in 1849, Kent at Tonbridge in 1854, Old Colliegiate Church, Maidstone in 1859, Lee in 1866, Boston, Lincolnshirein 1868, and Trinity Chapel in New York City in 1869-1897. He taught music at Tonbridge School, helped found the College of Organists, edited the America Episcopal Hymnal, and wrote a number of monographs, including “Antiquities of Maidstone”. He continued to write church music, producing services, oratorios (including “The Restoration of Israel and St. John, 1857), organ works, and anthems. He died at Headington, Oxford, England. John Perry

Henry Warburton Hawkes

1843 - 1917 Person Name: Henry W. Hawkes, 1843-1917 Author of "Thank we now the Lord of heaven" in The Beacon Song and Service book Hawkes, Henry Warburton, born at Kendal, 1843, for sixteen years minister of the North End Mission, Liverpool, from 1891 to 1900 of the Bootle Free Church, since 1906 of West Kirby Free Church. Editor of Hymns of Help and Songs of Praise, 1882; and Hymns and Sacred Songs for Church and Home. 1891, Reprinted and enlarged, 1898. The edition of 1898 has about 100 of his own hymns and adaptations for popular tunes. 1. Amid the din of earthly strife. Vision of the Christ. 2. Father, Thy dear name we own. Litany. 3. Heavenward lift your banners. Christian Warfare. 4. Peace, perfect peace, the gift of God within. Inward Peace. 5. Thank we now the Lord of heaven. Christmas. 6. Thou knowest, Lord! Thou know'st my life's deep story. The Searcher of Hearts. No. 3 published 1882; 1, 2, 4, 5 published 1891; 6 published 1898. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)