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[Thank God for the fountain, the life-giving rills]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Fred A. Fillmore Incipit: 55431 76543 44432 Used With Text: Pure as the Streamlet

Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Thank God for the fountains, the life-giving rills Refrain First Line: Murmuring rills Topics: Temperance and Reform Used With Tune: [Thank God for the fountains, the life-giving rills]

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Pure as the Streamlet

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Gospel Songs No. 2 #365 (1902) First Line: Thank God for the fountains, the life-giving rills Refrain First Line: Murmuring rills Topics: Temperance and Reform Languages: English Tune Title: [Thank God for the fountains, the life-giving rills]

Pure as the Streamlet

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: The Revival No. 4 #99 (1903) First Line: Thank God for the fountain, the life-giving rills Refrain First Line: Murmuring rills Languages: English Tune Title: [Thank God for the fountain, the life-giving rills]

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Author of "Pure as the Streamlet" in Gospel Songs No. 2 Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Fred A. Fillmore

1856 - 1925 Composer of "[Thank God for the fountains, the life-giving rills]" in Gospel Songs No. 2 Born: May 15, 1856, Paris, Illinois. Died: November 15, 1925, Terrace Park, Ohio. Buried: Milford, Ohio. Frederick Augustus Fillmore, who was born on May 15, 1856, in Paris, IL, one of seven children, five sons and two daughters, born to Augustus Damon and Hannah Lockwood Fillmore. His father was a preacher in the Christian Church, as well as a composer, songbook compiler, and hymn publisher who developed his own system of musical notation using numbers on the staff in place of note heads. Augustus eventually settled in Cincinnati, OH, and established a music publishing business there. Until 1906, there was no official distinction between "Christian Churches" and "Churches of Christ." The names were used pretty much interchangeably, and many older churches of Christ which are faithful today were once known as "Christian Churches." Fred and his older brother James took over their father's publishing business following the death of Augustus in 1870 and established the Fillmore Brothers Music House. This became a successful Cincinnati music form, publishing church hymnals and later band and orchestral music. For many years the firm issued a monthly periodical, The Music Messenger. The brothers edited many hymnbooks and produced many songs which became popular. Beginning with the songbook Songs of Glory in 1874, there appeared many Fillmore publications which became widely used through churches, especially in the midwest. For these collections, Fred provided a great deal of hymn tunes. --launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/hymnoftheday