[When the great round sun above us]

Composer: Mrs. E. B. Hopkins

Sarah W. Hopkins (1843-1927) compiled the song book, The Gospel Trumpet, for the use of Missionary Societies and Children’s Bands in 1890. Her name is given as “Mrs. E. B. Hopkins” because she was married to Dr. Elisha B Hopkins (1824-1899) of Madison, NY. Both were active in the Utica District of the Northern New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Sarah Hopkins served on the Board of Control for Deaconess Work for the Conference and was the District President of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1889. Her husband was ordained as a Deacon as well as a Local Preacher. The tunes of a number of the songs in The Gospel Trumpet were written or arranged by Sarah Hopkins. Alan M.… Go to person page >