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[Waters from the smitten rock]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John T. Grape Incipit: 51321 22235 43323 Used With Text: The Smitten Rock

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The Smitten Rock

Author: Rev. S. Y. Harmer Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: Waters from the smitten rock Refrain First Line: 'Tis flowing, flowing Used With Tune: [Waters from the smitten rock]

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The Smitten Rock

Author: Rev. S. Y. Harmer Hymnal: National Tidings of Joy #56 (1878) First Line: Waters from the smitten rock Refrain First Line: 'Tis flowing, flowing Languages: English Tune Title: [Waters from the smitten rock]
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The Smitten Rock

Author: Rev. S. Y. Harmer Hymnal: Sunday School Songs #102 (1880) First Line: Waters from the smitten rock Refrain First Line: 'Tis flowing, flowing Languages: English Tune Title: [Waters from the smitten rock]
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The Smitten Rock

Author: Rev. S. Y. Harmer Hymnal: Joyful Greeting #129 (1886) First Line: Waters from the smitten rock Refrain First Line: 'Tis flowing, flowing Languages: English Tune Title: [Waters from the smitten rock]

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John T. Grape

1835 - 1915 Composer of "[Waters from the smitten rock]" in National Tidings of Joy John Thomas Grape USA 1835-1915. Born at Baltimore, MD, he became a successful coal merchant. He married Sophia F MacCubbin, and they had one daughter, Agnes. He was a member of Monument St. Methodist Church in Baltimore, where he played the organ, directed the choir, and was active in the Sunday school. Later, he directed the choir at the Hartford Avenue Methodist Church. The hymn noted below was composed by Grape in 1868, with lyrics composed by Envina Mable Hall of the same church in 1865 while sitting in the choir loft during a sermon. Both words and music had been given to the pastor, Rev George W Schreck, at different times, and one day he remembered he had been given both. Grape's tune had a refrain, so Ms Hall, hearing it, then added words to her poem for that, and the hymn was complete. At Schreck's urging they sent the hymn to Professor Theodore Perkins, publisher of “Sabbath Carols” periodical, and it became popular. Grape died in Baltimore. John Perry

S. Y. Harmer

1809 - 1884 Person Name: Rev. S. Y. Harmer Author of "The Smitten Rock" in National Tidings of Joy Harmer, Samuel Young, son of Samuel Harmer, a member of the Society of Friends, was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, Dec. 9, 1809. In 1827 he joined the American Methodist Episcopalian Church, and was engaged for several years as a Sunday School teacher and superintendent. In 1842 he became a local preacher of that body, and, in 1847, was admitted into the ministry. He has held appointments in Philadelphia and Iowa. His well-known hymn "In the Christian's home in glory" (Heaven) was written in 1856 for a camp-meeting collection which the Rev. John Gladding was then compiling. It has been slightly altered, and set to music by the Rev. W. McDonald of Boston, Massachusetts. (For these details we are indebted to Dr. Hatfield's Poets of the Church N. Y., 1884.) -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, 1907
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