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Sunday School Hymns No. 1
Publication Date: 1903 Publisher: Tullar Meredith Co. Publication Place: New York Editors: I. H. Meredith; Grant Colfax Tullar; Tullar Meredith Co.; J. W. Lerman
Sunday School Hymns No. 1
Lead, Kindly Light
Author: J. H. Newman Appears in 1,234 hymnals First Line: Lead, kindly Light! amid th'encircling gloom Topics: Familiar Hymns; Funeral; Guidance; Prayer Used With Tune: LUX BENIGNA
Lead, Kindly Light
Savior, Like a Shepherd
Author: Dorothy A. Thrupp Appears in 1,148 hymnals First Line: Savior, like a shepherd lead us Topics: Christ the Shepherd; Familiar Hymns; Guidance Used With Tune: [Savior, like a shepherd lead us]
Savior, Like a Shepherd
Praise Him! Praise Him!
Author: Fanny J. Crosby Appears in 411 hymnals First Line: Praise him! praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer! Topics: Familiar Hymns; Praise Used With Tune: [Praise him! praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!]
Praise Him! Praise Him!
OLD HUNDRED
Appears in 1,961 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Guillaume Franc Incipit: 11765 12333 32143 Used With Text: Praise God, from whom all blessings flow
OLD HUNDRED
Father, Make Us Loving
Author: Flora Kirkland Hymnal: SSH11903 #1 (1903) Refrain First Line: We would learn of Jesus Topics: Following Christ; Prayer Languages: English Tune Title: [Father, make us loving]
Father, Make Us Loving
Hark, the Tramp of Coming Legions
Author: Alice Jean Cleator Hymnal: SSH11903 #2 (1903) Topics: Martial; Rally Day; Warfare and Victory Languages: English Tune Title: [Hark, the tramp of coming legions]
Hark, the Tramp of Coming Legions
Smile and Sing
Author: G. C. T. Hymnal: SSH11903 #3 (1903) First Line: When the heart is heavy and the days are long Refrain First Line: Smile and sing, some happy, happy song Topics: Joy Languages: English Tune Title: [When the heart is heavy and the days are long]
Smile and Sing
John Burton
1773 - 1822 Hymnal Number: 59 Author of "Holy Bible, Book Divine" in Sunday School Hymns No. 1 Burton, John, born 1773, in Nottingham, where he resided until 1813, when he removed to Leicester, at which town he died in 1822. He was a Baptist, a very earnest Sunday School teacher, and one of the compilers of the Nottingham Sunday School Union Hymn Book, 1812. This book reached the 20th edition in 1861. The 1st edition contains 43 hymns which have his signature. He is known almost exclusively by one hymn, "Holy Bible, book divine" (q.v.). He was also author of The Youth's Monitor, and other similar productions for the young. Robert Hall wrote a recommendatory preface to one of his works. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M. A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Burton
E. Prentiss
1818 - 1878 Person Name: Mrs. Elizabeth P. Prentiss Hymnal Number: 183 Author of "More Love to Thee" in Sunday School Hymns No. 1 Elizabeth Payson Prentiss USA 1818-1878. Born at Portland, ME, 5th child of Congregationalist minister, Edward Payson. He died of tuberculosis in 1827, and the family moved to New York City in 1831. That year she professed faith in Christ and joined the Bleeker Street Presbyterian Church. She possessed keen abilities, including sympathy and perceptiveness. She began writing stories and poems, and contributed her works to “The youth’s companion”, a New England religious periodical. In 1838 she opened a small girls’ school in her home and took up a Sabbath-school class as well. Two years later, she moved to Richmond, VA, to be a department head at a girls’ boarding school. In 1845 she married George Lewis Prentiss, a brother of her close friend, Anna Prentiss Stearns. The Prentisses settled in New Bedford, MA, where George became pastor of South Trinitarian Church. In 1851 George became pastor of Mercer St Presbyterian Church in New York City. After a happy period in life, by 1852 she had lost two of her three children, one as a newborn, one at age four. However, she went on to have three more healthy children, despite her poor health. She wrote her first book of stories, published in 1853. In 1856 she penned her famous hymn lyrics (noted below) after she nearly lost her daughter, Minnie, to an illness. After George resigned from his church due to failing health, the family went abroad for a couple of years. In 1860 they returned to NY, where George resumed his pastorate and held a chair at Union Theological Seminary. She published her most popular book, “Stepping heavenward” in 1869, furnishing it in installments to ‘Chicago Advance’. The family evenually settled in Dorset, VT, where she died. After her death, her husband published “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss” in 1882. The family children were: Annie, Eddy, Bessie, Minnie, George, and Henry.
John Perry
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Prentiss, Elizabeth, née Payson, youngest daughter of Dr. Edward Payson, was born at Portland, Maine, Oct. 26, 1818; married to George Lewis Prentiss, D.D., then at Bedford, Massachusetts, April, 1845; and died at Dorset, Vermont, Aug. 13, 1878. Her Life and Letters by her husband appeared some time after. Dr. Prentiss removed from Bedford to New York in 1851, and was appointed Professor of Pastoral Theology at Union Seminary, New York, 1873. Mrs. Prentiss's works include The Flower of the Family; Stepping Heavenward, 1869; and Religious Poems, 1873. Of her hymns the two following are most widely known:—
1. As on a vast eternal shore Thanksgiving. Contributed to Schaff's Christ in Song, 1869.
2. More love to Thee, 0 Christ. More Love to Christ desired. Written in 1869, and first printed on a fly-sheet; then in Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, N. Y., 1872.
[Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
E. Prentiss
William B. Bradbury
1816 - 1868 Person Name: Wm. B. Bradbury Hymnal Number: 59 Composer of "ALETTA" in Sunday School Hymns No. 1 William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life.
John Perry
William B. Bradbury
