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I love that Holy Scripture

Author: Helen Taylor Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: AURELIA

AURELIA

Appears in 1,115 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. S. Wesley, Mus. Doc. Incipit: 33343 32116 54345 Used With Text: I love that Holy Scripture

Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 20 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Elias Henry Johnson Tune Sources: The Baptist Hymnal by W. Howard Doane and Elias H. Johnson (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1883) Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 34565 11771 24653 Used With Text: I Love That Holy Scripture

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I Love That Holy Scripture

Author: Helen Taylor Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8476 Meter: 7.6.7.6 Lyrics: 1 I love that Holy Scripture, Where I am truly told About the heav’nly city, With walls of precious gold. 2 About the shining river That goeth through the street— The boughs of life above it, With fruit and blossoms sweet. 3 This world is sometimes happy, With pleasant things I love; But it must be far, far better To dwell in Heav’n above. 4 Not that the walls are golden, The gates are always bright; Not that the river poureth Through every street its light. 5 Not that a pleasant music From golden harps is stirred, And every sound is sweeter, Than ear hath ever heard. 6 But there shall never enter The dark, rude thoughts of sin, That here are always watching To come the heart within. 7 And there we shall not find it So very hard to be Gentle and true and patient, For we the Lord shall see. 8 And so we shall grow like Him, All holy things to love; O! it must be far, far better To dwell in Heav’n above! Languages: English Tune Title: AULÉ

I love that Holy Scripture

Author: Helen Taylor Hymnal: The Sunday School Hymnary #97 (1906) Languages: English Tune Title: AURELIA

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Samuel Sebastian Wesley

1810 - 1876 Person Name: S. S. Wesley, Mus. Doc. Composer of "AURELIA" in The Sunday School Hymnary Samuel Sebastian Wesley (b. London, England, 1810; d. Gloucester, England, 1876) was an English organist and composer. The grandson of Charles Wesley, he was born in London, and sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy. He learned composition and organ from his father, Samuel, completed a doctorate in music at Oxford, and composed for piano, organ, and choir. He was organist at Hereford Cathedral (1832-1835), Exeter Cathedral (1835-1842), Leeds Parish Church (1842-1849), Winchester Cathedral (1849-1865), and Gloucester Cathedral (1865-1876). Wesley strove to improve the standards of church music and the status of church musicians; his observations and plans for reform were published as A Few Words on Cathedral Music and the Music System of the Church (1849). He was the musical editor of Charles Kemble's A Selection of Psalms and Hymns (1864) and of the Wellburn Appendix of Original Hymns and Tunes (1875) but is best known as the compiler of The European Psalmist (1872), in which some 130 of the 733 hymn tunes were written by him. Bert Polman

Helen Taylor

1818 - 1885 Author of "I love that Holy Scripture" in The Sunday School Hymnary Taylor, Helen, daughter of Martin Taylor, was the author of The Child's Book of Homilies, N.D.; Sabbath Bells, A Series of Simple Lays for Christian Children, N.D.; and Missionary Hymns: for the Use of Children, 1846. From her Sabbath Bells, "I love that holy Scripture" (Concerning Heaven) is taken. The following are all from her Missionary Hymns, 1846:-- 1. A feather'd seed that lifted is. Value of Little Things. 2. And shall we dwell together? Concerning Heaven. 3. Father, the little offering take. Offertory. 4. There is a happy land on high. Concerning Heaven. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

E. H. Johnson

1841 - 1906 Person Name: Elias Henry Johnson Arranger of "AULÉ" in The Cyber Hymnal Johnson, Elias Henry, D.D., has been since 1882 Professor of Systematic Theology in Croser Baptist Theo. Seminary, Chester, Pa. He was born at Troy, N.Y., Oct. 15, 1841, and graduated at Rochester. After acting for two years as assistant paymaster in the U.S. Navy he was ordained to the Baptist Ministry, and served in several pastorates. He edited Songs of Praise for Sunday Schools, 1882; was assistant editor of the Baptist Hymnal, 1883; and also editor of Our Sunday School Songs, 1885, and Sursum Corda, 1898. He is also the author of several prose works. His hymn, "Father almighty, trembling I bow to Thee" (Holy Trinity), in Sursum Corda, 1898, No. 314, is dated 1867. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)