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[Brightly gleams our banner]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Asa Hull Incipit: 33333 21355 53333 Used With Text: The Banner of Truth

Author: T. J. Potter Appears in 413 hymnals First Line: Brightly gleams our banner Refrain First Line: Brightly gleams our banner Topics: Christian Courage and Cheer Used With Tune: [Brightly gleams our banner]

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The Banner of Truth

Author: T. J. Potter Hymnal: The Gem of Gems #117 (1881) First Line: Brightly gleams our banner Refrain First Line: Brightly gleams our banner Languages: English Tune Title: [Brightly gleams our banner]

The Banner of Truth

Author: T. J. Potter Hymnal: Gospel Praise Book. #138 (1885) First Line: Brightly gleams our banner Refrain First Line: Brightly gleams our banner Topics: Christian Courage and Cheer Languages: English Tune Title: [Brightly gleams our banner]

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Asa Hull

1828 - 1907 Composer of "[Brightly gleams our banner]" in Gospel Praise Book. 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

Thomas J. Potter

1828 - 1873 Person Name: T. J. Potter Author of "The Banner of Truth" in Gospel Praise Book. Potter, Thomas Joseph, was born at Scarborough in 1827, and joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1847, and subsequently took Holy Orders. For many years he filled the Chair of Pulpit Eloquence and English Literature in the Foreign Missionary College of All Hallows, Dublin. He published The Spoken Word; or, The Art of Extemporary Preaching; Sacred Eloquence, or, The Theory and Practice of Preaching; and The Pastor and his People; together with several tales. He translated the Vesper hymns in the Catholic Psalmist; contributed to the Holy Family Hymns, 1860; and published Legends, Lyrics, and Hymns, 1862. His most widely-known hymn is "Brightly gleams our banner" (q.v.). Several of his hymns and translations are in use in Roman Catholic hymnbooks for Missions and Schools. He died at Dublin in 1873. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Potter, T. J., p. 901, ii., was b. June 9, 1828 (not in 1827), ordained 1857, and died Aug. 31, 1873. The hymn:— O! yet, once more, in Britain's isle [For the Conversion of England], in the Arundel Hymns, 1902, is stanzas 30, 31, 34, 35, 36 of a piece inhis Legends, Lyrics and Hymns, 1862. It is entitled "The Definition of the Immaculate Conception: or England and Rome," and marked as “Written several years ago .. to be spoken at the Feast of Languages, which is annually celebrated in the Propaganda College at Rome, on the Festival of the Epiphany, . . . now published for the first time." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)