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Dear Father in heaven, Look down from above

Appears in 9 hymnals

Dear Jesus, our offering we bring thee

Author: E. A. Wales Appears in 8 hymnals

Dear Savior, bless the children

Appears in 14 hymnals

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Dear Father in heaven, Look down from above

Hymnal: PJH1928 #d9 (1928)

Dear Jesus, our offering we bring thee

Author: E. A. Wales Hymnal: PJH1928 #d10 (1928)

Dear Savior, bless the children

Hymnal: PJH1928 #d11 (1928)

1813 - 1893 Hymnal Number: d21 Author of "God bless our native land, Firm may she" in Primary and Junior Hymnal John Sullivan Dwight, born, in Boston, May 13, 1813, was a virtuoso in music, and an enthusiastic student of the art and science of tonal harmony. He joined a Harvard musical club known as "The Pierian Sodality" while a student at the University, and after his graduation became a prolific writer on musical subjects. Six years of his life were passed in the "Brook Farm Community." He was best known by his serial magazine, Dwight's Journal of Music, which was continued from 1852 to 1881. His death occurred in 1893. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes, Brown & Butterworth, 1906. ===================== Dwight, John Sullivan, son of Timothy Dwight (p. 316, ii.), was born at Boston, U.S.A., May 13, 1812, and educated at Harvard, and at the Cambridge Theological College. He laboured in the ministry for six years, and then devoted himself to literary work. For nearly 30 years he was editor of a Journal of Music. His connection with hymnody is very slight. (See "God bless our native land," p. 1566, i.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Mary Lundie Duncan

1814 - 1840 Person Name: Mary L. Duncan Hymnal Number: d40 Author of "Jesus, tender shepherd, hear us" in Primary and Junior Hymnal Duncan, Mary, née Lundie, daughter of the Rev. Robert Lundie, Parish Minister of Kelso, and Mary Grey Lundie Duncan, was born at Kelso, April 26, 1814. On July 11, 1836, she was married to the William Wallace Duncan, the son of Rev. Henry Duncan, D.D., founder of the Savings Bank movement and minister in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. In the end of December, 1839, she took a chill, which resulted in a fever and died on Jan. 5, 1840. Her hymns, mostly written for her children between July and December, 1839, appeared, in 1841, in her Memoir, by her mother, and were issued separately, in 1842, as Rhymes for my Children, to the number of 23. The best known are, "Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me," and "My Saviour, be Thou near me." Dianne Shapiro, from John Julian "Dictionary of Hymnology" and email from Prof. Charles W. Munn (biographer of Henry Duncan)