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Who Can Count the Mercies
Author: Mrs. R. A. Turner Appears in 1 hymnal Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Who can count the mercies That our Lord bestows
Who Can Count the Mercies
Numberless as the Sands
Author: Laura E. Newell Appears in 4 hymnals Hymnal Title: Glory Songs First Line: Who can count the mercies that our God bestows Refrain First Line: Numberless, numberless Used With Tune: [Who can count the mercies that our God bestows]
Numberless as the Sands
[Who can count the mercies that our God bestows]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. B. Herbert Hymnal Title: Glory Songs Used With Text: Numberless as the Sands
[Who can count the mercies that our God bestows]
[Who can count the mercies]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. R. M. Hymnal Title: Little Sacred Songs Incipit: 12312 11234 32123 Used With Text: Who Can Count the Mercies
[Who can count the mercies]
Numberless as the sands
Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: Crowning Carols #d191 (1908) Hymnal Title: Crowning Carols First Line: Who can count the mercies that our God bestows Languages: English
Numberless as the sands
Numberless as the Sands
Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: Glory Songs #19 (1911) Hymnal Title: Glory Songs First Line: Who can count the mercies that our God bestows Refrain First Line: Numberless, numberless Languages: English Tune Title: [Who can count the mercies that our God bestows]
Numberless as the Sands
Numberless as the sands
Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: Gospel Songs No. 2 #d201 (1919) Hymnal Title: Gospel Songs No. 2 First Line: Who can count the mercies that our God bestows Languages: English
Numberless as the sands
Laura E. Newell
1854 - 1916 Hymnal Title: Glory Songs Author of "Numberless as the Sands" in Glory Songs Born: February 5, 1854, New Marlborough, Connecticut.
Died: October 13, 1916, Manhattan, Kansas.
Daughter of Mr. and Edward A. Pixley, but orphaned as an infant, Laura was adopted by her aunt, then Mrs. Hiram Mabie, who at the time lived in New York. In 1858, the Mabie family moved to a farm south of where Wamego, Kansas, now stands. Two years after the move, Mr. Mabie died, and his wife resumed teaching.
In 1860, Mrs. Mabie accepted a position in Topeka, Kansas, where she taught many years. Under her tutelage, Laura received her education. As early as age 12, Laura was writing rhymes, and two years later her poems began to appear in local newspapers. She had no thought of a literary career; she simply wrote to give vent to her poetical mind.
In 1871, Laura married Lauren Newell, a carpenter from Manhattan, Kansas. They had at least six children, and belonged to the Congregational denomination.
In 1873, Laura was listening to an address by a speaker who lamented the death of "genuine" hymns, and she resolved to try her hand in that line of work. That began a long period of writing songs, sacred and secular, services for all anniversary occasions, cantatas, adapting words to music, and music to words.
"Mrs. Newell is indeed a prolific writer. Her poems number in the thousands. She has had over eight hundred poems published in a single year, a most remarkable record. The great ease with which Mrs. Newell writes is one of her special gifts. Not long since an order, accompanied by music and titles, was sent her for eight poems to suit. At seven o’clock in the evening she sat down to her organ to catch the music. Then she went to her desk, and at ten o’clock the order was ready for the return mail. Her work pleased the publisher so well that he sent her an order for forty-eight additional poems. Mrs. Newell writes several hundred poems annually.
She is a very modest and unpretentious lady, and goes about her daily work as cheerfully as her poems advise others to do. The deeply religious character of the woman stands out boldly in nearly all her work. The next world is apparently as real to her as the present. Her heart is in her work, and to the end of life’s chapter, while able, may she wield her pen to tell the Story to dear to her heart, in verse and song." Hall, pp. 316-17
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/n/e/w/newell_lep.htm
Laura E. Newell
J. B. Herbert
1852 - 1927 Hymnal Title: Glory Songs Composer of "[Who can count the mercies that our God bestows]" in Glory Songs
J. B. Herbert
R. A. Turner
Person Name: Mrs. R. A. Turner Hymnal Title: Little Sacred Songs Author of "Who Can Count the Mercies" in Little Sacred Songs
R. A. Turner
