What sight on earth more blissful

What sight on earth more blissful

Author: Thomas Hastings
Published in 6 hymnals

Author: Thomas Hastings

Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >

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First Line: What sight on earth more blissful
Author: Thomas Hastings
Copyright: Public Domain
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Additional Hymns, Adopted by the General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America, at their Session, June 1846, and authorized to be used in the churches under their care #281

Additional Hymns, Adopted by the General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America, at their Session, June 1846, and authorized to be used in the churches under their care #281
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Church Melodies #781

Church Melodies #781

Mother's Hymn Book . New ed. #d148

Mother's Hymn Book . New ed. #d148
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The Mother's Hymn Book. (Third stereotyped ed. Rev. and enl.) #95

The Mother's Hymn Book. (Third stereotyped ed. Rev. and enl.) #95

The Psalmodist #d260

The Psalmodist #d260
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The Psalms and Hymns, with the Doctrinal Standards and Liturgy of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America #H232

The Psalms and Hymns, with the Doctrinal Standards and Liturgy of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America #H232
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