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[Our friends on earth we meet with pleasure]

[Our friends on earth we meet with pleasure]

Composer: J. H. Tenney (1889)
Published in 103 hymnals


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Composer: J. H. Tenney

John Harrison Tenney, 1840-1918 Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1840, Row­ley, Mass­a­chu­setts. Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of "Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too," Ten­ney was named af­ter Amer­i­can pre­si­dent Will­iam Hen­ry Har­ri­son. A dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mass­a­chu­setts, he ed­it­ed or was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of over 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more. His works in­clude: Amer­i­can Male Choir Temperance Jew­els, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1879) Bells of Vic­to­ry, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Oliv­er Dit­son & Com­… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: [Our friends on earth we meet with pleasure]
Composer: J. H. Tenney (1889)
Incipit: 55351 31176 53512
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain
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Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día #320

Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día #320

Sacred Selections for the Church #456

Sacred Selections for the Church #456

Sacred Songs of the Church #931

Sacred Songs of the Church #931
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Small Church Music #6194

Small Church Music #6194
TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #7579

The Cyber Hymnal #7579
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