William Edwin Entzminger was born in South Carolina in 1859. He earned a B.S. from Furman University in South Carolina and then went to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY for a Doctor of Theology degree. He married Maggie Grace Griffith, and together they became Baptist missionaries in Brazil in 1891. He wrote and translated many hymns.… Go to person page >
Author (stanzas): Philip Doddridge
Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >
This tune is likely the work of the composers named here, but has also been attributed to others as shown in the instances list above.
William J. Reynolds, in his Companion to Baptist Hymnal (1976) writes as follows:
“Happy Day appeared in William McDonald’s Wesleyan Sacred Harp (Boston, 1854),…
Display Title: Feliz o DiaFirst Line: Feliz o dia em que aceiteiTune Title: HAPPY DAYAuthor: Philip Doddridge; William Edwin Entzminger, 1859-1930Date: 1991
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