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[Love divine, all love excelling]

Appears in 6 hymnals Matching Instances: 6 Composer and/or Arranger: Asa Hull Incipit: 54345 11616 53453 Used With Text: Love divine, all love excelling

Author: James Allen Appears in 823 hymnals Matching Instances: 3 First Line: Sweet the moments, rich in blessing Topics: Opening Service; Close of Worship; Prayer Used With Tune: [Sweet the moments, rich in blessing]

Love divine, all love excelling

Appears in 1,862 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Used With Tune: [Love divine, all love excelling]

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Sweet the Moments

Author: James Allen Hymnal: Chiming Voices #184a (1893) First Line: Sweet the moments, rich in blessing Languages: English Tune Title: [Sweet the moments, rich in blessing]

Love divine, all love excelling

Hymnal: Chiming Voices #184b (1893) Languages: English Tune Title: [Love divine, all love excelling]

Sweet the Moments

Author: James Allen Hymnal: Jewels of Praise #174a (1884) First Line: Sweet the moments, rich in blessing Languages: English Tune Title: [Sweet the moments, rich in blessing]

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Asa Hull

1828 - 1907 Composer of "[Love divine, all love excelling]" in Chiming Voices 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

James Allen

1734 - 1804 Author of "Sweet the Moments" in Gospel Praise Book. Allen, James, born at Gayle, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, June 24, 1734, and educated with a view to taking Holy Orders, first with two clergymen at different times, and then for one year at St. John's Coll., Cambridge. Leaving the University in 1752 he became a follower of Benjamin Ingham, the founder of the sect of the Inghamites, but subsequently joined himself to the Sandemanians; and finally built a chapel on his estate at Gayle, and ministered therein to the time of his death; died 31st Oct., 1804. He published a small volume, Christian Songs, containing 17 hymns, and was the editor and a principal contributor to the Kendal Hymn Book, 1757, and Appendix to the 2nd edition, 1761. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)