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The Promises
Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: The promises how precious Refrain First Line: The promises, how precious
The Promises
Asking, Seeking, Knocking
Author: Eden Reeder Latta Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: How precious are the promises, How precious and how true
Asking, Seeking, Knocking
Not one word has failed
Author: Thomas O. Chisholm Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: O how precious are the promises of God to me Refrain First Line: Not one single word of his good promise
Not one word has failed
[The promises, how precious]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jno. R. Sweney Incipit: 12333 33313 55555 Used With Text: The Promises
[The promises, how precious]
[How precious are the promises]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: D. E. Dortch Incipit: 51113 56555 33125 Used With Text: Asking, Seeking, Knocking
[How precious are the promises]
[How precious the promise I read in the word]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Ira D. Sankey Incipit: 51111 71216 55111 Used With Text: How Precious the Promise
[How precious the promise I read in the word]
The Promises
Author: L. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Showers of Blessing #88 (1888) First Line: The promises, how precious Refrain First Line: The promises, how precious Lyrics: 1 The promises, how precious!
The words of God’s own book!
They shine amid our darkness
Like stars on some lone brook;
Or, like the joyous sunshine,
They fill our path with light,
The fore-gleams of that glory
Where cometh no more night.
Refrain:
The promises, how precious!
I love to call them mine,
Sealed by my Saviour’s dying blood,
In covenant divine.
2 They fall upon waste places
Like gentle drops of rain,
Refreshing and uplifting
The soul that’s faint with pain.
They speak a Father’s blessing,
They breathe a Saviour’s love;
Our comfort in life’s sorrows,
Our pledge of joys above. [Refrain]
3 Yes, they shall stand forever!
God’s word shall still endure,
Amid time’s devastations
Eternally secure.
He’s faithful that hath promised,
I trust his words divine;
Oh, show me all their fulness,
Blest Spirit, make them mine. [Refrain] Tune Title: [The promises, how precious]
The Promises
The Promises
Author: L. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Temple Themes and Sacred Songs #s48 (1888) First Line: The promises, how precious! Refrain First Line: The promises, how precious! Languages: English Tune Title: [The promises, how precious!]
The Promises
The Promises
Author: L. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Sacred Trio #401 (1889) First Line: The promises, how precious Refrain First Line: The promises, how precious Tune Title: [The promises, how precious]
The Promises
E. E. Hewitt
1851 - 1920 Person Name: L. E. Hewitt Author of "The Promises" in Showers of Blessing 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)
E. E. Hewitt
John R. Sweney
1837 - 1899 Person Name: Jno. R. Sweney Composer of "[The promises, how precious]" in Showers of Blessing John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy.
Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker.
Joe Hickerson from "Joe's Jottings #9" used by permission
John R. Sweney
E. R. Latta
1839 - 1915 Author of "Asking, Seeking, Knocking" in Grace and Glory Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA.
John Perry
E. R. Latta
