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EXCELSIOR

Appears in 24 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. J. Vail Incipit: 55123 11716 55512 Used With Text: Purer yet and purer I would be in mind
EXCELSIOR

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Purer yet and purer

Appears in 223 hymnals Used With Tune: [Purer yet and purer]
Purer yet and purer
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Jesus, Blessed Jesus

Appears in 9 hymnals Used With Tune: [Jesus, blessed Jesus]
Jesus, Blessed Jesus
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On the Blessed Sunday

Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: SUNDAY
On the Blessed Sunday

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Purer yet and purer

Author: Unknown Hymnal: Popular Hymns, revised #100 (1885) Languages: English Tune Title: EXCELSIOR
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Purer yet and purer

Author: Johann W. von Goethe Hymnal: Hymni Ecclesiae #324 (1911) Languages: English Tune Title: EXCELSIOR
Purer yet and purer

Purer yet and purer

Author: J. W. von Goethe Hymnal: The Praise Hymnal #440 (1896) Languages: English Tune Title: EXCELSIOR
Purer yet and purer

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Anonymous

Person Name: Unknown Author of "Purer yet and purer I would be in mind" in New Christian Hymn and Tune Book In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
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S. J. Vail

1818 - 1883 Composer of "EXCELSIOR" in New Christian Hymn and Tune Book In his youth Silas Jones Vail learned the hatter's trade at Danbury, Ct. While still a young man, he went to New York and took employment in the fashionable hat store of William H. Beebe. Later he established himself in business as a hatter at 118 Fulton Street, where he was for many years successful. But the conditions of trade changed, and he could not change with them. After his failure in 1869 or 1870 he devoted his entire time and attention to music. He was the writer of much popular music for use in churches and Sunday schools. Pieces of music entitled "Scatter Seeds of Kindness," "Gates Ajar," "Close to Thee," "We Shall Sleep, but not Forever," and "Nothing but Leaves" were known to all church attendants twenty years ago. Fanny Crosby, the blind authoress, wrote expressly for him many of the verses he set to music. --Vail, Henry H. (Henry Hobart). Genealogy of some of the Vail family descended from Jeremiah Vail at Salem, Mass., 1639, p. 234.
S. J. Vail

Philip Phillips

1834 - 1895 Composer of "EXCELSIOR" in The Standard Church Hymnal Phillips, Philip, commonly known as the "Singing Pilgrim," was born in Chautauqua County, N. York, Aug. 13, 1834. Although engaged in farming for a time, from an early age he devoted himself to music, and ultimately devoted himself to the work of a "Singing Evangelist," in which capacity he has visited most English-speaking countries. His popular hymnals are: (1) Early Blossoms, 1860; (2) Musical Leaves, 1862; and (3) The Singing Pilgrim, 1866. In these works he published one or two hymns, including "I have heard of a Saviour's love" (The love of Christ), as in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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