Glücksel'ger Tag, da ich erkor

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Glücksel'ger Tag, da ich erkor

Translator (into German): E. F. Wunderlich; Author: Philip Doddridge
Tune: HAPPY DAY (Rimbault)
Published in 6 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Hallelujah, What a Savior!, Vol. 2 (Extr…

Translator (into German): E. F. Wunderlich

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Author: 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 >

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First Line:	Glücksel'ger Tag, da ich erkor
English Title:	O happy day that fixed my choice
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Translator (into German):	E. F. Wunderlich
Language:	German
Refrain First Line:	Seliger Tag, Seliger Tag
Copyright:	Public Domain

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HAPPY DAY (Rimbault)

William J. Reynolds, in his Companion to Baptist Hymnal (1976), p. 161, wrote as follows: Happy Day appeared in William McDonald’s Wesleyan Sacred Harp (Boston, 1854), set to “Jesus, my All, to heaven is gone” with the present refrain, "Happy day, happy day, When Jesus washed my sins away!" Do…

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