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[Welcome, welcome, sunny hours]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. R. Palmer Hymnal Title: The Primary and Junior Hymnal Incipit: 35421 32512 32343 Used With Text: All the lily bells are ringing

All the lily bells are ringing

Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 4 hymnals Hymnal Title: The Primary and Junior Hymnal First Line: Welcome, welcome, sunny hours Topics: Motion Songs Used With Tune: [Welcome, welcome, sunny hours]

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God is Love

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Garnered Gems #34 (1892) Hymnal Title: Garnered Gems First Line: Welcome, welcome, sunny hours! Refrain First Line: All the lily bells are ringing Languages: English Tune Title: [Welcome, welcome, sunny hours!]

Spring Song

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal: Special Songs and Services #18 (1893) Hymnal Title: Special Songs and Services First Line: Welcome, welcome, sunny hours! Refrain First Line: All the lily bells are ringing Languages: English Tune Title: [Welcome, welcome, sunny hours!]

All the lily bells are ringing

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: The Primary and Junior Hymnal #183 (1909) Hymnal Title: The Primary and Junior Hymnal First Line: Welcome, welcome, sunny hours Topics: Motion Songs Tune Title: [Welcome, welcome, sunny hours]

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Hymnal Title: The Primary and Junior Hymnal Author of "All the lily bells are ringing" in The Primary and Junior Hymnal 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)

H. R. Palmer

1834 - 1907 Hymnal Title: The Primary and Junior Hymnal Composer of "[Welcome, welcome, sunny hours]" in The Primary and Junior Hymnal Palmer, Horatio Richmond, MUS. DOC, was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and 5 of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881. His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymnwriter he is known by his "Yield not to temptation," which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love, &c, 1874, and other collections. In America its use is extensive. Dr. Palmer's degree was conferred by the University of Chicago in 1880. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =============== Palmer, H. R., p. 877, i. The hymn "Would you gain the best in life" (Steadfastness), in the Congregational Sunday School Supplement, 1891, the Council School Hymn Book, 1905, and others, is by this author. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)