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WALNUT GROVE

Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. K. Oliver Incipit: 34323 55456 55143 Used With Text: When gladness wings my favor'd hour

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To thee I lift my soul, O Lord

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 13 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 25 Used With Tune: WALNUT GROVE
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Regard in tenderness, O Lord

Author: Rev. H. T. Johnson Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Used With Tune: WALNUT GROVE
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Cold Gethsemane! the sweat and tears

Author: J. C. Embry Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Luke 22:44 Used With Tune: WALNUT GROVE

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When gladness wings my favor'd hour

Hymnal: Carmina Sacra #117a (1841) Languages: English Tune Title: WALNUT GROVE
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To thee I lift my soul, O Lord

Hymnal: African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book #600 (1898) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Scripture: Psalm 25 Languages: English Tune Title: WALNUT GROVE
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To thee I lift my soul, O Lord

Hymnal: The African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book #600 (1902) Languages: English Tune Title: WALNUT GROVE

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Henry K. Oliver

1800 - 1885 Person Name: H. K. Oliver Composer of "WALNUT GROVE" in The African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book Henry Kemble Oliver (b. Beverly, MA, 1800; d. Salem, MA, 1885) was educated at Harvard and Dartmouth. He taught in the public schools of Salem (1818-1842) and was superintendent of the Atlantic Cotton Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1848-1858). His civic service included being mayor of Lawrence (1859­1861) and Salem (1877-1880), state treasurer (1861-1865), and organizer of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics and Labor (1867-1873). Oliver was organist at several churches, including Park Street Congregational Church in Boston, North Church in Salem, and the Unitarian Church in Lawrence. A founder of the Mozart Association and several choral societies in Salem, he published his hymn tunes in Hymn and Psalm Tunes (1860) and Original Hymn Tunes (1875). Bert Polman

J. C. Embry

Author of "Cold Gethsemane! the sweat and tears" in African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book

H. T. Johnson

Person Name: Rev. H. T. Johnson Author of "Regard in tenderness, O Lord" in African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book
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