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Our Help Is from the Lord
Author: Mary Kay Beall Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: I look to the hills to the faraway hills Refrain First Line: Our help is from the Lord Text Sources: Lectionary for Mass (Refrain)
Our Help Is from the Lord
My Help Cometh From the Lord
Author: Geraldine Woods Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: I will look to the hills from whence cometh my help Used With Tune: [I will look to the hills from whence cometh my help] (Woods)
My Help Cometh From the Lord
I will look to the hills from whence cometh
Author: Thoro Harris Appears in 1 hymnal
I will look to the hills from whence cometh
[I look to the hills, to the faraway hills]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Mary Kay Beall Tune Key: D Major Used With Text: Our Help Is from the Lord
[I look to the hills, to the faraway hills]
[I will look unto the hills from whence cometh my help]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Geraldine Woods; Nolan Williams, Jr. b. 1969 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 12333 32155 55354 Used With Text: My Help Cometh From the Lord
[I will look unto the hills from whence cometh my help]
[I will look to the hills, to the beautiful hills]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jno. R. Sweney Incipit: 34556 51233 43345 Used With Text: The Beautiful Hills
[I will look to the hills, to the beautiful hills]
Our Help Is from the Lord
Author: Mary Kay Beall Hymnal: Psalms for All Seasons #121I (2012) First Line: I look to the hills to the faraway hills Topics: Assurance; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Comfort and Encouragement; Daily Prayer Evening Prayer; Daily Prayer Midday Prayer; Disciples / Calling; Elements of Worship Sending; Endurance; Evil; God as Refuge; God as Shepherd; God as Creator; God's Will; God's Armor; God's Love; God's Majesty; God's Nearness; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Presence; God's Protection; God's Strength; New Creation; Occasional Services Christian Marriage; Occasional Services Funerals; Peace; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; People of God / Church Family of God; Prayer; Songs of Zion; Year A, Lent, 2nd Sunday; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 16-22; Settings Especially Appropriate for Children Tune Title: [I look to the hills, to the faraway hills]
Our Help Is from the Lord
The Beautiful Hills
Author: Amelia M. Starkweather Hymnal: Melodious Sonnets #4 (1885) First Line: I will look to the hills, to the beautiful hills Refrain First Line: O the beautiful, beautiful hills Lyrics: 1 I will look to the hills, to the beautiful hills,
Where the pure living fountains are found,
Whence my help cometh down in their life-giving rills,
That with joy make the desert abound.
Refrain:
O the beautiful, beautiful hills!
O the beautiful, beautiful hills!
My soul thrills with delight
At the rapturous sight
Of the beautiful glory-crowned hills.
2 On the ever green hills is the fair tree of life,
With its balm for all sorrow and care;
And its bowers are free from temptation and strife,
For the angel of Peace dwelleth there. [Refrain]
3 The Great Shepherd of Israel a faithful watch keeps,
That my foot be not moved from the way;
I will trust, for my Lord neither slumbers nor sleeps,
And the night is to him as the day. [Refrain]
4 The dark pathway he hallowed I will not despise,
I will drink of the cup that he fills,
And for joy in the darkness, will lift up mine eyes
To the light of the beautiful hills. [Refrain] Scripture: Psalm 121 Languages: English Tune Title: [I will look to the hills, to the beautiful hills]
The Beautiful Hills
My Help Cometh from the Lord
Author: Geraldine Woods Hymnal: Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) #415 (2012) First Line: I will look to the hills Topics: Comfort; Faith; Providence; Refuge, Security; Sickness; Trust, Confidence Scripture: Psalm 121 Languages: English Tune Title: [I will look to the hills]
My Help Cometh from the Lord
John R. Sweney
1837 - 1899 Person Name: Jno. R. Sweney Composer of "[I will look to the hills, to the beautiful hills]" in Melodious Sonnets John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy.
Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker.
Joe Hickerson from "Joe's Jottings #9" used by permission
John R. Sweney
Nolan Williams
Person Name: Nolan Williams, Jr. b. 1969 Arranger of "[I will look unto the hills from whence cometh my help]" in African American Heritage Hymnal
Nolan Williams
Thoro Harris
1874 - 1955 Author of "I will look to the hills from whence cometh" Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC.
Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include:
Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904)
Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906)
Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor)
Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922)
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Thoro Harris
