My Starred Hymns
My FlexScores
My Hymnals
My Purchased Files
Planning worship?
Check out our sister site, ZeteoSearch.org,
for 20+ additional resources related to your search.
- |
User Links
Search Results
Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath
Author: Thomas Bowman Stephenson Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning
Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath
[Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning]
Appears in 16 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. Rhodes Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 32315 32315 13251 Used With Text: Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath Morning
[Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning]
Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath Morning
Author: Thomas Bowman Stephenson Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6416 Lyrics: 1. Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning
On the world, so full of care;
Bidding man forget his labor,
Calling to the house of prayer.
O sweet and strong, His saints among,
We sing to God our Sabbath song,
Our Sabbath song, our Sabbath song,
We raise to Christ our Sabbath song.
2. ’Tis the day when man’s Redeemer
Rose triumphant o’er the grave;
Sealing thus His work completed,
Telling thus His power to save.
Then loud and long, to Christ so strong
To save the lost, we raise our song,
Our Sabbath song, our Sabbath song,
We raise to Christ our Sabbath song.
3. ’Tis the day whose rest and gladness
Show what all my life should be;
Yielding all by faith to Jesus,
Finding Jesus all in me.
O how I long, in Christ made strong,
To sing each day faith’s Sabbath song,
Faith’s Sabbath song, faith’s Sabbath song,
I’d sing each day faith’s Sabbath song.
4. ’Tis the day whose calm, so holy
Shadows forth the better rest,
Where the crownèd saints are singing
With their Lord, supremely blest.
’Twill not be long, till ’mid that throng,
We sing th’eternal Sabbath song,
Heav’n’s Sabbath song, Heav’n’s Sabbath song,
We’ll sing th’eternal Sabbath song. Languages: English Tune Title: [Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning]
Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath Morning
Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath Morning
Author: Thos. B. Stephenson, D.D. Hymnal: Select Songs No. 2 #34 (1893) Languages: English Tune Title: [Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning]
Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath Morning
Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath
Author: Mrs. M. A. Kidder Hymnal: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 #19 (1903) First Line: Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning Topics: Familiar Hymns; Sabbath Languages: English Tune Title: [Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning]
Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath
William B. Bradbury
1816 - 1868 Composer of "[Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning]" in Select Songs No. 2 William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life.
John Perry
William B. Bradbury
M. A. Kidder
1820 - 1905 Person Name: Mrs. M. A. Kidder Author of "Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath" in Sunday School Hymns No. 1 Used pseudonym: Minnie Waters
==========
Mary Ann Pepper Kidder USA 1820-1905. Born at Boston, MA, she was a poet, writing from an early age. She went blind at age 16, but miraculously recovered her sight the following year. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1844 she married Ellis Usher Kidder, a music publisher, working for the firm founded by his brother, Andrew, and they had three children: Mary Frances, Edward, and Walter. That year they moved to Charlestown, MA, and in 1857 to New York City. When the American Civil War broke out, Ellis enlisted in the 4th Regiment as a private. Mustered in for two years of service, he died of disease in 1862, six days after participating in the Battle of Antietam. Left alone, with three children to care for, her writing hobby became a much needed source of income. She began writing short stories, poems, and articles and submitting them to various magazines and newspapers. For over 25 years she wrote a poem each week to the New York Ledger and others to the Waverly Magazine and New York Fireside Companion. She also frequently contributed to the New York Weekly, Demorest’s Monthly, and Packard’s Monthly. It was estimated that she earned over $80,000 from her verse. She lost two of her children when Walter drowned while swimming, and 18 years later, her daughter, Mary Frances, a talented sketch artist, died of heart disease. Mary Ann was active in the temperance movement and one of the first members of the Sorosis club, a women’s club. She loved children and animals. Her daughter-in-law described her as gentle, patient, always serene, and a good listener. She was fiercely independent and refused to lean on others for support, mentally or materially. Mary Ann lived for 46 years in New York City. She is said to have written 1000+ hymn lyrics. She died at Chelsea, MA, at the home of her brother, Daniel, having lived there two years. It is said that her jet-black hair never turned gray, which was a real grief to her, as she longed for that in advancing age.
John Perry
===========
Kidder, Mary Ann, née Pepper, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 16, 1820, is the author of "Lord, I care not for riches" (Name in the Book of Life desired), and "We shall sleep, but not for ever" (Hope of the Resurrection), both of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
=====================
Kidder, Mary Ann, née Pepper, p. 1576, i. Mrs. Kidder died at Chelsea, Mass., Nov. 25, 1905. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and resided for 46 years in New York City.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
M. A. Kidder
T. Bowman Stephenson
1839 - 1912 Person Name: Thomas Bowman Stephenson Author of "Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath Morning" in The Cyber Hymnal Stephenson, Thomas Bowman, D.D., LL.D., son of the Rev. John Stephenson, was born at Newcastle on Dec. 22, 1839, and educated at Wesley College, Sheffield, subsequently graduating at the University of London. In 1860 he entered the Wesleyan Ministry, and has since laboured in Norwich, Manchester, Bolton, and London. The great work of his life has been the establishment and maintenance of The Children's Home at Victoria Park, London, and its branches at Bolton, Birmingham, and the Isle of Man, and in Canada. Dr. Stephenson has written for Magazines and Reviews, and published a small work on Sisterhoods, and a Memorial Sketch of the late James Barlow. He has written several hymns, of which the following are most widely known:—
1. Fading like a lifetime ends another day. Evening. Written circa 1873, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 487, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines.
2. Hear us, Saviour, bowed before Thee. Children's Hymn. Written for a Festival at the Children's Home, circa 1879.
3. 0 Father, Whose spontaneous love. Easter, or Missions. Appeared in The General Hymnary for Missions, &c, 1889, No. 266, in 9 stanzas of 4 lines.
4. Onward, o'er Time's great ocean. Life a Voyage. Written during a voyage across the South Sea.
5. Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning. Sunday Morning. Written circa 1875, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 504, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines.
6. This is the glorious gospel word. Jesus saves. Called forth by a religious Convention at Brighton, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 314, in 5 st. of 8 1., and in The General Hymnary, 1889, No. 431, with an additional stanza (st. iv.).
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
================
Stephenson, T. B. , p. 1092, ii. Dr. Stephenson was President of the Wesleyan Conference in 1891, and became warden of the Wesley Deaconess Institute in 1903. His hymn,"Lord, grant us like the watching five," is in The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
T. Bowman Stephenson
