Father of mercies, God of love, Whose gifts all creature share

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Father of mercies, God of love, Whose gifts all creature share

Author: Alice Flowerdew
Published in 12 hymnals

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	Hark! The Glad Sound - Music for Advent

Author: Alice Flowerdew

Flowerdew, Alice, was born in 1759, and married to Mr. Daniel Flowerdew, who for a few years held a Government appointment in Jamaica, and died in 1801. After his decease Mrs. Flowerdew kept a Ladies' Boarding-school at Islington. During her residence at Islington she was a member of the General Baptist congregation, in Worship Street (now at Bethnal Green Road). Subsequently she removed to Bury St. Edmunds, and some years later to Ipswich, where she died Sept. 23, 1830. In 1803 she published a small volume of Poems on Moral and Religious Subjects. This work reached a 3rd edition in 1811, and in that edition appeared her well-known harvest hymn, "Fountain of mercy, God of love," q.v. Mrs. Flowerdew's maiden name has not been ascertained… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Father of mercies, God of love, Whose gifts all creature share
Author:	Alice Flowerdew
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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RICHMOND (Haweis)

RICHMOND (also known as CHESTERFIELD) is a florid tune originally written by Thomas Haweis (PHH 270) and published in his collection Carmina Christo (1792). Samuel Webbe, Jr., adapted and shortened the tune and published it in his Collection of Psalm Tunes (1808). It was reprinted in 1853 in Webbe's…

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ST. JAMES (Courteville)

[Father of mercies, God of love] (Alman)

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