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[Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Fred A. Fillmore Incipit: 51111 76533 23465 Used With Text: Rejoice and be Glad

Author: Laura E. Newell Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful Refrain First Line: Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful Topics: Faith; Joy Used With Tune: [Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful]

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Rejoice and be Glad

Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: Augsburg Songs No. 2 #76 (1893) First Line: Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful Refrain First Line: Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful Topics: Faith; Joy Languages: English Tune Title: [Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful]

Rejoice and be Glad

Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: Fair as the Morning. Hymns and Tunes for Praise in the Sunday-School #172 (1891) First Line: Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful Lyrics: 1 Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful, Who trust and who wait on the Lord; Rejoice, for His grace shall sustain you; Abundant shall be your reward. Tho’ trials may often assail you, And though you afflicted may be. Rejoice, He is mighty to save you; His goodness and love you shall see. Refrain: Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful, Who trust and who wait on the Lord; Rejoice, for His grace shall sustain you; Abundant shall be your reward. 2 Then onward, press onward, nor ever Grow weary, tho’ sorrows befall, And dark be the way to His palace, For Jesus is guiding through all; He knows when our sad hearts are burdened, And pities each one in His fold. IN tender compassion and mercy, His sweet words of comfort are told. [Refrain] 3 He owns us, and calls us His children; To Him, to our blest Saviour King, Be thanks and be glory for ever; His goodness we joyfully sing. And then, in the transport of rapture, In heaven we’d worship the One. Who calls every one to His kingdom, And guides till life’s labors are done. [Refrain] Topics: Joy and Gladness Languages: English Tune Title: [Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful]

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Fred A. Fillmore

1856 - 1925 Composer of "[Rejoice and be glad, all ye faithful]" in Fair as the Morning. Hymns and Tunes for Praise in the Sunday-School Born: May 15, 1856, Paris, Illinois. Died: November 15, 1925, Terrace Park, Ohio. Buried: Milford, Ohio. Frederick Augustus Fillmore, who was born on May 15, 1856, in Paris, IL, one of seven children, five sons and two daughters, born to Augustus Damon and Hannah Lockwood Fillmore. His father was a preacher in the Christian Church, as well as a composer, songbook compiler, and hymn publisher who developed his own system of musical notation using numbers on the staff in place of note heads. Augustus eventually settled in Cincinnati, OH, and established a music publishing business there. Until 1906, there was no official distinction between "Christian Churches" and "Churches of Christ." The names were used pretty much interchangeably, and many older churches of Christ which are faithful today were once known as "Christian Churches." Fred and his older brother James took over their father's publishing business following the death of Augustus in 1870 and established the Fillmore Brothers Music House. This became a successful Cincinnati music form, publishing church hymnals and later band and orchestral music. For many years the firm issued a monthly periodical, The Music Messenger. The brothers edited many hymnbooks and produced many songs which became popular. Beginning with the songbook Songs of Glory in 1874, there appeared many Fillmore publications which became widely used through churches, especially in the midwest. For these collections, Fred provided a great deal of hymn tunes. --launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/hymnoftheday

Laura E. Newell

1854 - 1916 Author of "Rejoice and be Glad" in Fair as the Morning. Hymns and Tunes for Praise in the Sunday-School 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