To Welcome Christmas In

It swells upon the noon-day breeze

Author: John Coleman Adams (1849)
Tune: FOREST GREEN
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: John Coleman Adams

Adams, John Coleman. (Malden, Massachusetts, October 25, 1849--June 22, 1922, Hartford, Connecticut). Universalist. Son of John Greenleaf Adams. He graduated from Tufts College, A.B., 1870; B.D., 1872; S.T.D., 1888. He held pastorates at Newton, Mass., 1872-1880; Lynn, Mass., 1880-1884; Chicago, Illinois, 1884-1890; Brooklyn, New York, 1890-1901; and Hartford, Conn., 1901-1922. He wrote a few hymns for special occasions, one of which, written in 1911 for a church anniversary, begins "We praise Thee, God, for harvests earned." It was included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, and in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives  Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: It swells upon the noon-day breeze
Title: To Welcome Christmas In
Author: John Coleman Adams (1849)
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

FOREST GREEN

FOREST GREEN is an English folk tune associated with the ballad "The Ploughboy's Dream." Ralph Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) turned FOREST GREEN into a hymn tune for The English Hymnal (1906), using it as a setting for "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Shaped in rounded bar form (AABA), FOREST GREEN has th…

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Instances

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American Student Hymnal #d145

Hymns and Songs IV #145

We Sing of Life #d39

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