Children of Jerusalem

Children of Jerusalem, place the royal diadem

Author: George F. Root
Tune: [Children of Jerusalem place the royal diadem]
Published in 7 hymnals

Author: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line: Children of Jerusalem, place the royal diadem
Title: Children of Jerusalem
Author: George F. Root
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Hark, while youthful voices
Copyright: Public Domain

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Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools #17

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Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools #17

Liturgy and Hymnal for the Use of the General Church of the New Jerusalem #d16

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The Centenary Singer #372

The Dove #d5

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The Hosanna #40

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The Welcome #9

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