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Beautiful Thought
Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: We shall be like Him, O, beautiful tho't Refrain First Line: Beautiful thought, O beautiful thought Used With Tune: [We shall be like Him, O, beautiful tho't]
Beautiful Thought
[We shall be like Him, O, beautiful tho't]
Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Leonard Daugherty Incipit: 55553 45123 33332 Used With Text: Beautiful Thought
[We shall be like Him, O, beautiful tho't]
[We shall be like him, oh, beautiful thought]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. T. Giffe Incipit: 55555 56661 17655 Used With Text: We Shall be Like Him
[We shall be like him, oh, beautiful thought]
[We shall be like him! Oh, beautiful tho't!]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Frank M. Davis Incipit: 53453 12543 44565 Used With Text: We Shall Be Like Him
[We shall be like him! Oh, beautiful tho't!]
We Shall Be Like Him
Hymnal: Pure Songs for Sunday-Schools #31 (1889) First Line: We shall be like him! Oh, beautiful tho't! Refrain First Line: We shall be like him, when Jesus appears Languages: English Tune Title: [We shall be like him! Oh, beautiful tho't!]
We Shall Be Like Him
Beautiful Thought
Hymnal: Crown of Beauty #50 (1902) First Line: We shall be like Him, O, beautiful tho't Refrain First Line: Beautiful thought, O beautiful thought Languages: English Tune Title: [We shall be like Him, O, beautiful tho't]
Beautiful Thought
We shall be like Him, O beautiful tho't!
Hymnal: The Helping Hand #81 (1878)
We shall be like Him, O beautiful tho't!
Frank M. Davis
1839 - 1896 Composer of "[We shall be like him—Oh, beautiful thought]" in Notes of Praise Frank Marion Davis USA 1839-1896. Born at Marcellus, NY, he became a teacher and professor of voice, a choirmaster and a good singer. He traveled extensively, living in Marcellus, NY, Vicksburg, MS, Baltimore, MD, Cincinnati, OH, Burr Oak and Findley, MI. He compiled and published several song books: “New Pearls of Song” (1877), “Notes of Praise” (1890), “Crown of gold” (1892), “Always welcome” (1881), “Songs of love and praise #5” (1898), “Notes of praise”, and “Brightest glory”. He never married.
John Perry
Frank M. Davis
E. E. Hewitt
1851 - 1920 Person Name: Eliza E. Hewitt Author of "We Shall Be Like Him" Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds.
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
E. E. Hewitt
W. T. Giffe
1848 - 1926 Composer of "[We shall be like him—Oh, beautiful thought]" in New Onward and Upward Born: June 28, 1848, Portland, Indiana.
Died: July 13, 1926, Seattle, Washington.
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Logansport, Indiana.
Giffe grew up in College Corners, Indiana (near Portland), and served in the Army during the closing days of the American civil war. After the war, he attended Liber College, and studied law for two years. While in college, he was a member of the college glee club, and took lessons in the college singing school. Later, he studied with teachers such as J. W. Suffern, George Root, Luther Emerson, Horatio Palmer, and Henry Perkins.
Giffe had a fine baritone voice, and was in demand as a concert singer. He soon became popular as a chorus director and convention conductor. His first book for singing schools was New Favorite, which sold thousands of copies. The Oliver Ditson Company of Boston, Massachusetts, published many of his early works, but Giffe went on to form his own publishing house, the Home Music Company, in Logansport, Indiana. He also edited the Home Music Journal for several years. Later, Giffe became supervisor of music in the public schools in his home town. And he was one of three men selected to deliver an address in Logansport, Indiana, at the memorial services for assassinated president William McKinley.
Giffe and his wife Nancy had no children. His works include:
The Brilliant, 1874
Crown of Gold, with Frank Davis (Logansport, Indiana: Home Music Company, 1892)
The New Deal, with Louis Eichhorn (Logansport, Indiana: Home Music Company, 1898)
A Practical Course in Harmony and Musical Composition
--www.hymntime.com/tch
W. T. Giffe
