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[We'll sing the wondrous story]
Appears in 9 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: P. Bilhorn Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 55321 61651 23255 Used With Text: A Story Sweet and True
[We'll sing the wondrous story]
How Fair Upon The Mountains
Author: Susanna V. Aldrich Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 How fair upon the mountains
The hasting feet which bring
Today the glorious tidings
Which o’er the earth shall ring.
2 He reigns, our blessèd Savior,
He reigns, the King of Peace!
Today His heavenly mission
Begins and ne’er shall cease.
3 What though a newborn infant
He smiles on Mary’s breast?
He comes to free the people
With sin and woe oppressed.
4 He comes to break the fetters
Which bind the toiling slave
And bid from every hilltop
The flag of freedom wave.
5 Break forth, ye lofty mountains,
And ye, O little hills,
Pour out your deepest music,
And mingle, tinkling rills.
6 Let every voice in nature
Unite to swell the strain:
Today our blessèd leader,
The Prince of Peace "doth reign." Used With Tune: HEATHROW
How Fair Upon The Mountains
A Story Sweet and True
Author: E. W. Oakes Appears in 12 hymnals First Line: We'll sing the wondrous story Used With Tune: [We'll sing the wondrous story]
A Story Sweet and True
A Story Sweet and True
Author: E. W. Oakes Hymnal: Crowning Glory No. 1 #68 (1890) First Line: We'll sing the wondrous story Lyrics: 1 We'll sing the wondrous story,
'Tis ever sweet and true;
Of Jesus' love so precious,
Now freely offered you;
He left the joys of heaven,
His Father's home on high,
For lost and ruin'd sinners,
To suffer and to die.
2 The cruel world, they took Him,
With thorns they crowned His head;
And then to Calvary's mountain
The precious Lamb was led;
The nails of shame were driven,
The blood flow'd from His side;
He cried, O God, forgive them,
And bowed his head and died.
3 His friends whom He loved dearly,
And whom He died to save,
They begged His precious body,
And laid it in the grave;
But God, His Father, raised him,
Triumphant, from the dead;
Oh! glory hallelujah,
Now death is captive led.
4 My Lord now reigns in glory
He's coming soon for me;
And then with all the ransomed,
His glorious face I'll see;
And shout, behold the bridegroom,
Put on your garments fair,
And go ye out to meet Him,
With rapture in the air. Languages: English Tune Title: [We'll sing the wondrous story]
A Story Sweet and True
A Story Sweet and True
Author: E. W. Oakes Hymnal: Bilhorn's Male Chorus No. l #24 (1893) First Line: We'll sing the wondrous story Languages: English Tune Title: [We'll sing the wondrous story]
A Story Sweet and True
A Story Sweet and True
Author: E. W. Oakes Hymnal: Soul Winning Songs #67 (1898) First Line: We'll sing the wondrous story Languages: English Tune Title: [We'll sing the wondrous story]
A Story Sweet and True
P. P. Bilhorn
1865 - 1936 Person Name: P. Bilhorn Composer of "[We'll sing the wondrous story]" in Crowning Glory No. 1 Pseudonyms: W. Ferris Britcher, Irene Durfee; C. Ferris Holden, P. H. Roblin (a anagram of his name)
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Peter Philip Bilhorn was born, in Mendota, IL. His father died in the Civil War 3 months before he was born. His early life was not easy. At age 8, he had to leave school to help support the family. At age 15, living in Chicago, he had a great singing voice and sang in German beer gardens there. At this time, he and his brother also formed the Eureka Wagon & Carriage Works in Chicago, IL. At 18 Peter became involved in gospel music, studying under George F. Root and George C. Stebbins. He traveled to the Dakotas and spent some time sharing the gospel with cowboys there. He traveled extensively with D. L. Moody, and was Billy Sunday's song leader on evangelistic endeavors. His evangelistic work took him into all the states of the Union, Great Britain, and other foreign countries. In London he conducted a 4000 voice choir in the Crystal Palace, and Queen Victoria invited him to sing in Buckinghm Palace. He wrote some 2000 gospel songs in his lifetime. He also invented a folding portable telescoping pump organ, weighing 16 lbs. It could be set up in about a minute. He used it at revivals in the late 19th century. He founded the Bilhorn Folding Organ Company in Chicago. IL, and his organ was so popular it was sold all over the world. He edited 10 hymnals and published 11 gospel songbooks. He died in Los Angeles, CA, in 1936.
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Susannah V. Aldrich
1828 - 1905 Person Name: Susanna V. Aldrich Author of "How Fair Upon The Mountains" in The Cyber Hymnal Miss Susanna Valentine Aldrich, author, was born in Hopkinton, Mass, 14th November, 1828. She is the only child of Willard and Lucy (Morse) Aldrich. From her earliest years she showed a decided literary bent. Her studies were interrupted by a severe illness lasting for years. A victim to insomnia, she always kept paper and pencil within reach in order to jot down the fancies that thronged upon her. Encouraged by the Rev. J. C. Webster, her pastor, also one of the directors of the academy which Miss Aldrich attended, some of her compositions were offered to a magazine, and were accepted. For many years Miss Aldrich contributed both prose and poetry to a number of papers and magazines. since 1879 she has made her home in the Roxbury District of Boston.
American Women: fifteen hundred biographies, with over 1,400 photos: a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century (Rev. ed.) by Frances E. Willard an Mary A Livermore (New York/Chicago/Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897
Susannah V. Aldrich
