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[At morning's dawn I love to hear]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Asa Hull Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 53331 11152 22432 Used With Text: The Sabbath Bell

Author: Rev. E. H. Nevin Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: At morning's dawn I love to hear Refrain First Line: The Sabbath bell! The Sabbath bell! Lyrics: 1 At morning's dawn I love to hear The Sabbath bell so fresh and clear: And when the golden sun has set, I love to bear its music yet. Chorus: The Sabbath bell! The Sabbath bell! I love it well, I love it well; I love the ding dong bell! 2 It makes the young hearts leap and sing With sound of soft and pleasant ring, For when it falls upon their ear, They know the Sabbath school is near. [Chorus] 3 It calls the weary ones to rest, And calms the sad and troubled breast; With stirring peals that float abroad, It makes the careless think of God. [Chorus] 4 O, may it ring, till everywhere Its welcome music fills the air, And earth, now wrapt in gloomy night, Be crown'd with Sabbath's holy light. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [At morning's dawn I love to hear]

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The Sabbath Bell

Author: Rev. E. H. Nevin Hymnal: Light and Life #8 (1881) First Line: At morning's dawn I love to hear Refrain First Line: The Sabbath bell! The Sabbath bell! Lyrics: 1 At morning's dawn I love to hear The Sabbath bell so fresh and clear: And when the golden sun has set, I love to bear its music yet. Chorus: The Sabbath bell! The Sabbath bell! I love it well, I love it well; I love the ding dong bell! 2 It makes the young hearts leap and sing With sound of soft and pleasant ring, For when it falls upon their ear, They know the Sabbath school is near. [Chorus] 3 It calls the weary ones to rest, And calms the sad and troubled breast; With stirring peals that float abroad, It makes the careless think of God. [Chorus] 4 O, may it ring, till everywhere Its welcome music fills the air, And earth, now wrapt in gloomy night, Be crown'd with Sabbath's holy light. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [At morning's dawn I love to hear]

The Sabbath Bell

Author: Edward Henry Nevin Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #15911 First Line: At morning’s dawn I love to hear Refrain First Line: The Sabbath bell! the Sabbath bell! Lyrics: 1 At morning’s dawn I love to hear The Sabbath bell so fresh and clear; And when the golden sun has set, I love to hear its music yet. Refrain: The Sabbath bell! the Sabbath bell! I love it well, I love it well; I love the ding dong bell! 2 It makes the young heart leap and sing With sound of soft and pleasant ring; For when it falls upon their ear, They know the Sabbath school is near. [Refrain] 3 It calls the weary ones to rest, And calms the sad and troubled breast; With stirring peals that float abroad, It makes the careless think of God. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [At morning’s dawn I love to hear]

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Asa Hull

1828 - 1907 Composer of "[At morning's dawn I love to hear]" in Light and Life Asa Hull USA 1828-1907. Born in Keene, NY, he became a music publisher in New York City. He married Emma F Atherton, and they had a daughter, Harriett. He wrote many tunes and authored temperance rallying songs. He published 33 works, of which 21 were songbooks, between 1863-1895. He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

Edwin H. Nevin

1814 - 1889 Person Name: Rev. E. H. Nevin Author of "The Sabbath Bell" in Light and Life Nevin, Edwin Henry, D.D., son of Major David Nevin, was born at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1814. He graduated in Arts at Jefferson College, 1833; and in Theology at Princeton Seminary, in 1836. He held several pastorates as a Presbyterian Minister from 1836 to 1857; then as a Congregational Minister from 1857 to 1868; and then, after a rest of six years through ill health, as a Minister of the Reformed Church, first at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then in Philadelphia. Dr. Nevin is the author of several hymns, the more important of which are:— 1. Always with me [us], always with [us] me. Jesus always present. 2. Come up hither, come away. Invitation Heavenward. 3. Happy, Saviour, would I be. Trust. This is given in the Lyra Sacra Americana as "Saviour! happy should I be." This change was made by the editor "with the consent and approbation of the author." 4. 0 heaven, sweet heaven. Heaven. Written and published in 1862 after the death of a beloved son, which made heaven nearer and dearer from the conviction that now a member of his family was one of its inhabitants" (Schaff’s Christ in Song, 1870, p. 539). 5. Live on the field of battle. Duty. Appeared in the Baptist Devotional Hymn Book, 1864. 6. I have read of a world of beauty. Heaven. 7. Mount up on high! as if on eagle's wings. Divine Aspirations. Of these hymns, Nos. 1, 2, 3 appeared in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857; and all, except No. 5, are in the Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868. [Rev. F.M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)