| Text: | Jesus Makes My Heart Rejoice |
| Author: | Henrietta Louise van Hayn |
| Translator: | Frederick William Foster |
| Tune: | HAYN |
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Jesus makes my heart rejoice |
| Title: | Jesus Makes My Heart Rejoice |
| Author: | Henrietta Louise van Hayn (1776) |
| Translator: | Frederick William Foster (1789, alt.) |
| Meter: | 77.88.77 |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1998 |
| Scripture: | |
| Topic: | God: Assurance and Comfort; God: Providence and Care; Jesus Christ: Presence and Guidance (1 more...) |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HAYN |
| Meter: | 77.88.77 |
| Key: | F Major or modal |
| Source: | Herrnhut, c. 1740; C. Gregor Choralbuch, 1784 |
Caught up in Count Nicolas von Zinzendorf's movement at age twenty, Henrietta Hayn spent the remainder of her life in service in Moravian communities in Grosshennersdorf and Herrnhut, Germany. Twenty-eight of her hymns appeared in the Brüder Gesangbuch, 1778.