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We Sing the Song of Jesus

Author: Sanford Fillmore Bennett Appears in 3 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Refrain First Line: We sing, we sing

[We sing the song of Jesus]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. P. Webster Hymnal Title: Song Worship for Sunday Schools Incipit: 56531 23216 53532 Used With Text: We Sing the Song of Jesus

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We sing, we sing

Author: S. Fillmore Bennett Hymnal: Praise Book #59 (1877) Hymnal Title: Praise Book First Line: We sing the song of Jesus

Author: S. Fillmore Bennett Hymnal: Song Worship for Sunday Schools #8 (1884) Hymnal Title: Song Worship for Sunday Schools Refrain First Line: We sing, we sing Languages: English Tune Title: [We sing the song of Jesus]

We sing the song of Jesus

Author: S. Fillmore Bennett Hymnal: The Shining River #44 (1875) Hymnal Title: The Shining River

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Sanford Fillmore Bennett

1836 - 1898 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "We Sing the Song of Jesus" Sanford Fillmore Bennett was born in Eden, New York, 21 June 1836. He and his parents moved to Plainfield, Illinois when he was two years old. He worked on the farm and attended district school during the winter. He was a voracious reader. At sixteen he entered Waukegon Academy. Two years later he began teaching at Wauconda. In 1858 he entered the University of Michigan, Afterward he had charge of the schools in Richmond, Illinois. Two years later he resigned and became Associate Editor of the Independent at Elkhorn, Wisconsin. In 1864 he enlisted in the Wisconsin Volunteers and served as Second Lieutenant. After the war he returned to Elkhorn and opened a drug store and began the study of medicine. He graduated from Rush Medical College in 1874. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Joseph Philbrick Webster

1819 - 1875 Person Name: J. P. Webster Hymnal Title: Song Worship for Sunday Schools Composer of "[We sing the song of Jesus]" in Song Worship for Sunday Schools Webster composed and performed popular music. He studied with Lowell Mason and was active musically in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and directed a quartet company called the Euterpeans. In 1851, he moved to Madison, Indiana, followed by Chicago, Illinois (1855); Racine, Wisconsin (1856); and finally Elkhorn, Wisconsin (1859). Webster wrote over a thousand ballads and many hymns. His most famous secular song was his 1857 Lorena (words by Henry D. L. Webster). In its day, it was said to have been second in popularity only to Stephen Foster’s Suwanee River, and was sung by thousands of soldiers on both sides of the American civil war. An instrumental version appears in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, when Scarlett O’Hara is manning the stall at the charity dance in her mourning outfit. The tune also made an appearance in two John Ford films: The Searchers, 1956, arranged by Max Steiner, and The Horse Soldiers, 1959, arranged by David Buttolph. (http://www.hymntime.com/tch)