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[Ring, ye happy Christmas bells, ring the precious story]

[Ring, ye happy Christmas bells, ring the precious story]

Composer: Maltbie D. Babcock (1896)
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Composer: Maltbie D. Babcock

Maltbie D. Babcock (b. Syracuse, NY, 1858; d. Naples, Italy, 1901) graduated from Syracuse University, New York, and Auburn Theological Seminary (now associated with Union Theological Seminary in New York) and became a Presbyterian minister. He served the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. In Baltimore he was especially popular with students from Johns Hopkins University, but he ministered to people from all walks of life. Babcock wrote hymn texts and devotional, poems, some of which were published in The School Hymnal (1899). Bert Polman… Go to person page >

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Title: [Ring, ye happy Christmas bells, ring the precious story]
Composer: Maltbie D. Babcock (1896)
Incipit: 33221 12332 21233
Copyright: Public Domain
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Hymns and Carols #14

Hymns and Carols #14
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