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[At the close of every day]

[At the close of every day]

Composer: May Whittle Moody
Published in 3 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: May Whittle Moody

Mary (May) Jennette Whittle Moody 1870-1963. Born at Chicago, IL, daughter of hymnwriter, Daniel Webster Whittle (El Nathan), and, upon marrying, daughter-in-law to Dwight Lyman Moody, she attended Northfield School in MA (one of two schools founded there by D L Moody), after which she attended Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. She then attended the Royal Academy of Music in London, England (1890-91). She became a singer, organist, composer, and hymn editor. She assisted her father and Dwight L Moody in their evangelistic work. In 1894 she married William Revell Moody, and they had four children: Irene, Dwight, Beatrice, and Virginia. Only Beatrice lived to adulthood, the others died before age six. She and her husband returned to Nort… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [At the close of every day]
Composer: May Whittle Moody
Incipit: 33236 53332 35421
Copyright: Public Domain

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Northfield Hymnal No. 3 #55

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Northfield Hymns for Young People #8

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World-Wide Revival Hymns #191

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