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On Wings of Song
Publication Date: 1896 Publisher: Geo. C. Hugg Publication Place: Philadelphia, Penn. Editors: Geo.C. Hugg; Geo.C. Hugg
On Wings of Song
Home, home, sweet home
Appears in 491 hymnals First Line: Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints Refrain First Line: Home, home, sweet, sweet home Used With Tune: [Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints]
Home, home, sweet home
A Green Hill
Author: Cecil F. Alexander Appears in 700 hymnals First Line: There is a green hill far away Used With Tune: [There is a green hill far away]
A Green Hill
[Sing to the Lord Jehovah's name]
Appears in 299 hymnals Tune Sources: A. William's Coll. Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 15533 13223 15455 Used With Text: Sing to the Lord Jehovah's name
[Sing to the Lord Jehovah's name]
[My Jesus, I love thee]
Appears in 699 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. J. Gordon Incipit: 13443 21327 71134 Used With Text: My Jesus, I Love Thee
[My Jesus, I love thee]
[Rejoice and be glad, the Redeemer has come]
Appears in 781 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. J. Husband Incipit: 51111 12333 31355 Used With Text: Rejoice and Be Glad
[Rejoice and be glad, the Redeemer has come]
On wings of song
Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: OWoS1896 #3 (1896) First Line: We'll sing the praise of Jesus Refrain First Line: Wings, beautiful wings, His praise prolong Languages: English Tune Title: [We'll sing the praise of Jesus]
On wings of song
O Lord Have Mercy on My Soul
Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: OWoS1896 #4 (1896) First Line: Dear lord I come to thee this day Refrain First Line: Dear Saviour now my sins forgive Languages: English Tune Title: [Dear Lord I come to thee this day]
O Lord Have Mercy on My Soul
Thou knowest what is best
Author: Harry Mack Hymnal: OWoS1896 #5 (1896) First Line: Kind Jesus, keep our lives secure Refrain First Line: In thee is grace abounding Languages: English Tune Title: [Kind Jesus, keep our lives secure]
Thou knowest what is best
Cecil Frances Alexander
1818 - 1895 Person Name: Cecil F. Alexander Hymnal Number: 176 Author of "A Green Hill" in On Wings of Song As a small girl, Cecil Frances Humphries (b. Redcross, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1818; Londonderry, Ireland, 1895) wrote poetry in her school's journal. In 1850 she married Rev. William Alexander, who later became the Anglican primate (chief bishop) of Ireland. She showed her concern for disadvantaged people by traveling many miles each day to visit the sick and the poor, providing food, warm clothes, and medical supplies. She and her sister also founded a school for the deaf. Alexander was strongly influenced by the Oxford Movement and by John Keble's Christian Year. Her first book of poetry, Verses for Seasons, was a "Christian Year" for children. She wrote hymns based on the Apostles' Creed, baptism, the Lord's Supper, the Ten Commandments, and prayer, writing in simple language for children. Her more than four hundred hymn texts were published in Verses from the Holy Scripture (1846), Hymns for Little Children (1848), and Hymns Descriptive and Devotional ( 1858).
Bert Polman
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Alexander, Cecil Frances, née Humphreys, second daughter of the late Major John Humphreys, Miltown House, co. Tyrone, Ireland, b. 1823, and married in 1850 to the Rt. Rev. W. Alexander, D.D., Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. Mrs. Alexander's hymns and poems number nearly 400. They are mostly for children, and were published in her Verses for Holy Seasons, with Preface by Dr. Hook, 1846; Poems on Subjects in the Old Testament, pt. i. 1854, pt. ii. 1857; Narrative Hymns for Village Schools, 1853; Hymns for Little Children, 1848; Hymns Descriptive and Devotional, 1858; The Legend of the Golden Prayers 1859; Moral Songs, N.B.; The Lord of the Forest and his Vassals, an Allegory, &c.; or contributed to the Lyra Anglicana, the S.P.C.K. Psalms and Hymns, Hymns Ancient & Modern, and other collections. Some of the narrative hymns are rather heavy, and not a few of the descriptive are dull, but a large number remain which have won their way to the hearts of the young, and found a home there. Such hymns as "In Nazareth in olden time," "All things bright and beautiful," "Once in Royal David's city," "There is a green hill far away," "Jesus calls us o'er the tumult," "The roseate hues of early dawn," and others that might be named, are deservedly popular and are in most extensive use. Mrs. Alexander has also written hymns of a more elaborate character; but it is as a writer for children that she has excelled.
- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Alexander, Cecil F., née Humphreys, p. 38, ii. Additional hymns to those already noted in this Dictionary are in common use:—
1. Christ has ascended up again. (1853.) Ascension.
2. His are the thousand sparkling rills. (1875.) Seven Words on the Cross (Fifth Word).
3. How good is the Almighty God. (1S48.) God, the Father.
4. In [a] the rich man's garden. (1853.) Easter Eve.
5. It was early in the morning. (1853.) Easter Day.
6. So be it, Lord; the prayers are prayed. (1848.) Trust in God.
7. Saw you never in the twilight? (1853.) Epiphany.
8. Still bright and blue doth Jordan flow. (1853.) Baptism of Our Lord.
9. The angels stand around Thy throne. (1848.) Submission to the Will of God.
10. The saints of God are holy men. (1848.) Communion of Saints.
11. There is one Way and only one. (1875.) SS. Philip and James.
12. Up in heaven, up in heaven. (1848.) Ascension.
13. We are little Christian children. (1848.) Holy Trinity.
14. We were washed in holy water. (1848.) Holy Baptism.
15. When of old the Jewish mothers. (1853.) Christ's Invitation to Children.
16. Within the Churchyard side by side. (1848.) Burial.
Of the above hymns those dated 1848 are from Mrs. Alexander's Hymns for Little Children; those dated 1853, from Narrative Hymns, and those dated 1875 from the 1875 edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern.
Several new hymns by Mrs. Alexander are included in the 1891 Draft Appendix to the Irish Church Hymnal.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Alexander, Cecil F. , p. 38, ii. Mrs. Alexander died at Londonderry, Oct. 12, 1895. A number of her later hymns are in her Poems, 1896, which were edited by Archbishop Alexander.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Cecil Frances Alexander
M. E. Abbey
Hymnal Number: 54 Author of "Life's railway to heaven" in On Wings of Song Abbey was a Baptist minister in Georgia in the 1890s.
M. E. Abbey
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770 - 1827 Person Name: Beethoven Hymnal Number: 109 Composer of "[One there is above all others]" in On Wings of Song A giant in the history of music, Ludwig van Beethoven (b. Bonn, Germany, 1770; d. Vienna, Austria, 1827) progressed from early musical promise to worldwide, lasting fame. By the age of fourteen he was an accomplished viola and organ player, but he became famous primarily because of his compositions, including nine symphonies, eleven overtures, thirty piano sonatas, sixteen string quartets, the Mass in C, and the Missa Solemnis. He wrote no music for congregational use, but various arrangers adapted some of his musical themes as hymn tunes; the most famous of these is ODE TO JOY from the Ninth Symphony. Although it would appear that the great calamity of Beethoven's life was his loss of hearing, which turned to total deafness during the last decade of his life, he composed his greatest works during this period.
Bert Polman
Ludwig van Beethoven
