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I Know Who Makes the Daisies
Author: C. Newman Hall (1816-1910) Appears in 9 hymnals Lyrics: 1 I know who makes the daisies
And paints them starry bright;
I know who clothes the lilies,
So sweet and soft and white;
And surely needful raiment
He will for me provide,
Who know him as my Father,
And in his love confide,
Who know him as my Father,
And in his love confide.
2 I know who feeds the sparrow,
And robin red and gay;
I know who makes the sky-lark
Soar up to greet the day;
And me much more he cares for,
And feeds with daily bread,
Whom he has taught to love him,
And trust what he has said,
Whom he has taught to love him,
And trust what he has said.
3 The daisy and the lily
Obey him all they can;
The robin and the sky-lark
Fulfil his perfect plan;
And I, to whom are given
A heart, and mind, and will,
Must try to service him better,
And all his laws fulfill,
Must try to service him better,
And all his laws fulfill. Used With Tune: GUMBERT
I Know Who Makes the Daisies
MISSIONARY
Appears in 783 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Dr. Lowell Mason Incipit: 13556 53171 43321 Used With Text: I know who makes the daisies
MISSIONARY
[I know who makes the daisies]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Maurice A. Clifton Incipit: 51122 35653 21251 Used With Text: I Know Who Makes the Daisies
[I know who makes the daisies]
I Know Who Makes the Daisies
Author: Rev. Newman Hall Hymnal: Song Stories #32 (1901) Languages: English Tune Title: [I know who makes the daisies]
I Know Who Makes the Daisies
I Know Who Makes the Daisies
Author: C. Newman Hall (1816-1910) Hymnal: Worship and Song. (Rev. ed.) #48 (1921) Lyrics: 1 I know who makes the daisies
And paints them starry bright;
I know who clothes the lilies,
So sweet and soft and white;
And surely needful raiment
He will for me provide,
Who know him as my Father,
And in his love confide,
Who know him as my Father,
And in his love confide.
2 I know who feeds the sparrow,
And robin red and gay;
I know who makes the sky-lark
Soar up to greet the day;
And me much more he cares for,
And feeds with daily bread,
Whom he has taught to love him,
And trust what he has said,
Whom he has taught to love him,
And trust what he has said.
3 The daisy and the lily
Obey him all they can;
The robin and the sky-lark
Fulfil his perfect plan;
And I, to whom are given
A heart, and mind, and will,
Must try to service him better,
And all his laws fulfill,
Must try to service him better,
And all his laws fulfill. Tune Title: GUMBERT
I Know Who Makes the Daisies
I know who makes the daisies
Author: C. Newman Hall (1816-1910) Hymnal: Worship and Song Edition B #ad111 (1916) Languages: English
I know who makes the daisies
Lowell Mason
1792 - 1872 Person Name: Dr. Lowell Mason Composer of "MISSIONARY" in The Sunday School Hymnary Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the entire art of music, as now understood and practiced in America, has derived advantage from the work of this great man.
Lowell Mason was born in Medfield, Mass., January 8, 1792. From childhood he had manifested an intense love for music, and had devoted all his spare time and effort to improving himself according to such opportunities as were available to him. At the age of twenty he found himself filling a clerkship in a banking house in Savannah, Ga. Here he lost no opportunity of gratifying his passion for musical advancement, and was fortunate to meet for the first time a thoroughly qualified instructor, in the person of F. L. Abel. Applying his spare hours assiduously to the cultivation of the pursuit to which his passion inclined him, he soon acquired a proficiency that enabled him to enter the field of original composition, and his first work of this kind was embodied in the compilation of a collection of church music, which contained many of his own compositions. The manuscript was offered unavailingly to publishers in Philadelphia and in Boston. Fortunately for our musical advancement it finally secured the attention of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, and by its committee was submitted to Dr. G. K. Jackson, the severest critic in Boston. Dr. Jackson approved most heartily of the work, and added a few of his own compositions to it. Thus enlarged, it was finally published in 1822 as The Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason's name was omitted from the publication at his own request, which he thus explains, "I was then a bank officer in Savannah, and did not wish to be known as a musical man, as I had not the least thought of ever making music a profession." President Winchester, of the Handel and Haydn Society, sold the copyright for the young man. Mr. Mason went back to Savannah with probably $500 in his pocket as the preliminary result of his Boston visit.
The book soon sprang into universal popularity, being at once adopted by the singing schools of New England, and through this means entering into the church choirs, to whom it opened up a higher field of harmonic beauty. Its career of success ran through some seventeen editions. On realizing this success, Mason determined to accept an invitation to come to Boston and enter upon a musical career. This was in 1826. He was made an honorary member of the Handel and Haydn Society, but declined to accept this, and entered the ranks as an active member. He had been invited to come to Boston by President Winchester and other musical friends and was guaranteed an income of $2,000 a year. He was also appointed, by the influence of these friends, director of music at the Hanover, Green, and Park Street churches, to alternate six months with each congregation. Finally he made a permanent arrangement with the Bowdoin Street Church, and gave up the guarantee, but again friendly influence stepped in and procured for him the position of teller at the American Bank.
In 1827 Lowell Mason became president and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society. It was the beginning of a career that was to win for him as has been already stated the title of "The Father of American Church Music." Although this may seem rather a bold claim it is not too much under the circumstances. Mr. Mason might have been in the average ranks of musicianship had he lived in Europe; in America he was well in advance of his surroundings. It was not too high praise (in spite of Mason's very simple style) when Dr. Jackson wrote of his song collection: "It is much the best book I have seen published in this country, and I do not hesitate to give it my most decided approbation," or that the great contrapuntist, Hauptmann, should say the harmonies of the tunes were dignified and churchlike and that the counterpoint was good, plain, singable and melodious.
Charles C. Perkins gives a few of the reasons why Lowell Mason was the very man to lead American music as it then existed. He says, "First and foremost, he was not so very much superior to the members as to be unreasonably impatient at their shortcomings. Second, he was a born teacher, who, by hard work, had fitted himself to give instruction in singing. Third, he was one of themselves, a plain, self-made man, who could understand them and be understood of them."
The personality of Dr. Mason was of great use to the art and appreciation of music in this country. He was of strong mind, dignified manners, sensitive, yet sweet and engaging.
Prof. Horace Mann, one of the great educators of that day, said he would walk fifty miles to see and hear Mr. Mason teach if he could not otherwise have that advantage.
Dr. Mason visited a number of the music schools in Europe, studied their methods, and incorporated the best things in his own work. He founded the Boston Academy of Music. The aim of this institution was to reach the masses and introduce music into the public schools. Dr. Mason resided in Boston from 1826 to 1851, when he removed to New York. Not only Boston benefited directly by this enthusiastic teacher's instruction, but he was constantly traveling to other societies in distant cities and helping their work. He had a notable class at North Reading, Mass., and he went in his later years as far as Rochester, where he trained a chorus of five hundred voices, many of them teachers, and some of them coming long distances to study under him. Before 1810 he had developed his idea of "Teachers' Conventions," and, as in these he had representatives from different states, he made musical missionaries for almost the entire country. He left behind him no less than fifty volumes of musical collections, instruction books, and manuals.
As a composer of solid, enduring church music. Dr. Mason was one of the most successful this country has introduced. He was a deeply pious man, and was a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mason in 1817 married Miss Abigail Gregory, of Leesborough, Mass. The family consisted of four sons, Daniel Gregory, Lowell, William and Henry. The two former founded the publishing house of Mason Bros., dissolved by the death of the former in 1869. Lowell and Henry were the founders of the great organ manufacturer of Mason & Hamlin. Dr. William Mason was one of the most eminent musicians that America has yet produced.
Dr. Lowell Mason died at "Silverspring," a beautiful residence on the side of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, August 11, 1872, bequeathing his great musical library, much of which had been collected abroad, to Yale College.
--Hall, J. H. (c1914). Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.
Lowell Mason
Christopher Newman Hall
1816 - 1902 Person Name: C. Newman Hall, 1816-1901 Author of "I know who makes the daisies" in The Sunday School Hymnary Hall, Christopher Newman, LL.B., son of J. Vine Hall, was born at Maidstone, May 22, 1816, and educated at Totteridge School, and Highbury College, London. In 1841 he graduated B.A. at the University of London, and LL.B. in 1856. From 1842 to 1854 he was minister of Albion Church, Hull; and from 1854 he has been in charge of Surrey Chapel, and its continuation, Christ Church, Westminster. He was also chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1876. In addition to several prose works, and numerous tracts (one of which, "Come to Jesus," has been translated into 30 languages and has reached a circulation of two millions), he published:—
(1) Hymns composed at Bolton Abbey, and Other Rhymes, Lond., Nisbet, 1858; (2) Cloud and Sunshine, Lond., Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1870; (3) Christ Church Hymnal, for the use of the Congregation of Christ Church, Westminster Road, Lond., Nisbet, 1876; (4) Pilgrim Songs in Sunshine and Shade, Lond. 1870 (this is No. 1 with additional verses); (5) Supplemental Pilgrim Songs; and (6) Songs of Earth and Heaven, Lond., Hodder & Stoughton, 1886.
In the Christ Church Hymnal, 1876, there are 82 original hymns by Mr. Hall, 10 of which previously appeared in his Hymns composed at Bolton Abbey, &c, 1858. All the 82 hymns are signed “N. H." Of his hymns the most popular are, "Accepting, Lord, Thy gracious call"; "Friend of sinners, Lord of glory"; and "Hallelujah, joyful raise" (q.v.). In addition the following are also in common use outside of his Hymnal:—
1. Come, Lord, to earth again (1876). Advent.
2. Day again is dawning (1872). Morning.
3. Friend of sinners, hear my cry (1844). Lent.
4. God bless our dear old England (1876). National Hymn.
5. I know who makes the daisies. Providence.
6. Lord, we do not ask to know (1876). Missions.
7. O Jesus, Who to favoured friend (1876). B. V. M. given into the charge of St. John. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
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Hall, C. N., p. 481, i. Several recent hymns are included in his Lyrics of a Long Life, 1894. The additional hymns which have come into use since 1890 include:—
1. Come to Jesus! Friend of sinners. [Jesus the Saviour.] Lyrics, 1894, p. 176. Previously in Congregational Sunday School, Supplement, 1891, and School Hymns, 1891, as "Come to Jesus! Mighty Saviour."
2. I want to live and be a man. [Manliness.] Lyrics, 1894, p. 240, headed "A Boy's Hymn." A response to "I want to be an Angel" [p. 559, i.]. Previously in School Hymns, 1891, No. 334.
3. I've wandered far from home. [The Prodigal.] Pilgrim Songs, 1871, p. 17; Christian Endeavour Hymnal, 1896.
4. Lord! we obey Thy kind command. [Repentance.] Lyrics, 1894, p. 193. Previously in School Hymns, 1891, No. 137, as "Lord! I obey."
5. 0 for the love, the perfect love. [Fearless Love.] Lyrics, 1894, p. 199. Previously in School Hymns, 1891, No. 482.
6. To David's Son, Hosanna. [Hosanna to Jesus.] In Christ Church Hymnal, 1876, No. 550, the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, &c.
Mr. Hall died Feb. 18, 1902. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Christopher Newman Hall
Robert G. McCutchan
1877 - 1958 Person Name: R. G. McCutchan Composer of "LEACH" in American Junior Church School Hymnal A noted hymnologist, McCutchan studied at Park College, Parkville, Missouri, and Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa (BM 1904). He went on to teach voice at Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas, and founded the conservatory of music there in 1910. After further study in Germany and France, in 1911 he became dean of music at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, serving there 26 years. He helped compile the Methodist Hymnal in 1936. His works include:
Better Music in Our Churches, 1925
Music in Worship, 1927
American Junior and Church School Hymnal, 1928
The Deluge of New Hymnals (reprint from M.T.N.A. Proceedings, 1933)
American Church Music Composers of the Early Nineteenth Century, Church History, September 1933
The Congregation’s Part in the Office of Music Worship (Northwestern University, 1934)
Our Hymnody (New York: The Methodist Book Concern, 1937)
Aldersgate, 1738-1938, 1938
Hymns in the Lives of Men (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1943)
Hymns of the American Frontier, 1950
Hymn Tune Names: Their Sources and Significance, 1957
Sources:
Erickson, pp. 341-42
Hughes, p. 478
Hustad, pp. 284-85
McCutchan, p. 33
--http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/c/c/mccutchan_rg.htm, 03 July 2014.
Robert G. McCutchan
