The tune is from the second chorus of Felix Mendelssohn's (PHH 279) Festgesang (Op. 68) for male voices and brass; it was first performed in 1840 at the Gutenberg Festival in Leipzig, a festival celebrating the anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Mendelssohn's tune is similar…
Converted to Christianity as a youth at a mission in Buffalo, New York, Marcus Morris Wells (b. Cooperstown, NY, 1815; d. Hartwick, NY, 1895) spent most of his life near Hartwick as a farmer and maker of farm implements. He is remembered in hymnody for writing both the text and tune of "Holy Spirit,…
Display Title: God In Mercy Sent His SonFirst Line: God in mercy sent His SonTune Title: [God in mercy sent His Son]Author: Hannah K. BurlinghamDate: 1944
Display Title: God in Mercy Sent His SonFirst Line: God in mercy sent His SonTune Title: [God in mercy sent His Son]Author: Hannah K. BurlinghamDate: 1927