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Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer. The tune for the hymn is Edelweiss. The hymn offers a blessing for friends and offers peace as they retire. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 and Julia H. Johnston Date: 1884 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer. The music for the song was composed by Julia H. Johnston. This hymn is written for teachers and their students to sing. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a handwritten hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer for use at a Saturday morning breakfast at 7:45 a.m. The themes for this hymn are related to smiling, shining, morning, and joy. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer. The themes for this hymn are related to smiling, shining, morning, and joy. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: James, Belle L. Date: 1922-03-19 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This letter from March 19, 1922, written on Chicago Training School stationery by Belle L. James, announces the death of Lucy Rider Meyer to the friends of the school. The letter recounts the last days of Mrs. Meyer's life as well as her funeral service and ensuing memorial service. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Date: 1878 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a one-stanza, handwritten hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer, based upon Luke 7:48. The tune was written by Hanah M. Bickley. The hymn speaks of Jesus' forgiveness. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer. The music for the hymn was also written by Lucy Rider Meyer. The hymn is written about Jesus and his love for humanity in life and death. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Gordon, Elizabeth Putnam, 1851-1933 Date: 1911-07-20 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: In an article, published in the Union Signal on July 20, 1911, Elizabeth P. Gordon writes about her experience at the Chicago Training School, where music played a prominent role in daily life. A photograph of the Chicago Training School and Lucy Rider Meyer are also included. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer. The hymn is number 109 in a collection. This hymn utilizes a benediction of Jesus Christ for peace from John 14:27. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Date: 1891 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer, based upon Numbers 6:24-26. The music is included. This is a hymn of benediction for blessing and peace. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer. The spiritual, Dey's a Li'l' Six Feet of Groun', Somewhere, is also included. The hymn describes the relationship of a mother and her child in heaven, which is mirrored by God's relationship with humanity. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Lathbury, Mary A. (Mary Artemisia), 1841-1913 and Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Date: 1875 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer Lucy J. Rider), with music by Mary A. Lathbury. This is hymn number 152 and is a Chautauqua song. The song invokes Jesus Christ and the Spirit to bring about unity in the heart. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Shook, L. B. Contributing Institution: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Libraries Description: L. B. Shook letter to B. H. Carroll asking for recommendations of hymns for a hymn book. View Full Item at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Libraries -
Creator: Alexander, Charles M. (Charles McCallon), 1867-1920 Date: 1915 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: This 1915 Blue Mountains Edition samples from the full-length Alexander's Hymns No. 3 published by Fleming H. Revel later that year. The volume consists of songs that editor Charles McCallon Alexander (1867–1920) popularized during evangelism tours with Presbyterian preacher John Wilbur Cadman an... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Blackburn, Prof, Kirkland, A. M., 1860-1919, Kirkland, R. S., 1865-1933, and Kirkland, J. V., 1857-1918 Date: 1896~/1898~ Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Compiled by three siblings from Waverly, Tennessee—John Vinus Kirkland (1867–1918), Robert Samuel Kirkland (1865–1933), and Anderson Melville Kirkland (1860–1919)—Apostolic Hymns pairs mainline and old-school Baptist hymn texts with an eclectic range of music, including early urban gospel and chu... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Beall, B. B. (Benjamin Burk) Date: 1907 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Editor Benjamin Burke Beall (1874–1945) began publishing gospel songbooks like the successful Joyful Lays series in 1900. When this compilation emerged in 1907, Beall likely envisioned it as the anchor for another series. However, no further issues were printed after Beall dissolved his Douglassv... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Date: 1847 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Creator: First Moravian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Date: 1743/1745 Contributing Institution: Moravian Archives Description: A journal of happenings in the "English congregation" from its establishment on January 1, 1743, running up to June 15, 1745. Topics covered include births and baptisms, sermons preached and hymns sung, "love feasts," meetings and conferences, members' travel (including extensive travel between P... View Full Item at Moravian Archives -
Creator: Tabernacle Publishing Company Date: 1920-10-19 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a contract from the Tabernacle Publishing Company for ""He Was Not Willing,"" a song by Lucy Rider Meyer. The contract includes various legalities for the hymn with signatures by Johnson and Lucy Rider Meyer. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Faculty of the Eureka Normal School of Music Date: 1903 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The Eureka Publishing Company provided gospel music to the Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas region where the seven-shape notation system was widely adopted by the mid-1880s. This volume is an early version of the gospel annual. It retains rudiments from its oblong predecessors, rendering it suitable... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Barbour, Clarence A. (Clarence Augustus), 1867-1937 Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Creator: Work, Frederick J., 1879-1942 Date: 1907 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, a new dynasty of leadership was emerging over Fisk University's Jubilee Singers and its practice, dating to the 1870s, of publishing spirituals. In just over a decade (1902–1915), brothers Frederick J. Work (1879–1942) and John W. Work II (1873–1925) collecte... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Work, Frederick J., 1879-1942 and Work, John W., 1873-1925 Date: 1907 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, a new dynasty of leadership was emerging over Fisk University's Jubilee Singers and its practice, dating to the 1870s, of publishing spirituals. In just over a decade (1902–1915), brothers Frederick J. Work (1879–1942) and John W. Work II (1873–1925) collecte... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Robinson, K. C., Showalter, A. J. (Anthony Johnson), 1858-1924, Patton, J. D. (John Daniel), 1868-, Mosely, T. B., Beall, B. B. (Benjamin Burk), Morris, W. J., and Eagle, H. M. Date: 1915 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Gospel Glory is the 1915 joint offering of A. J. Showalter & Company of Dalton, Georgia, and its affiliates Showalter-Patton Company in Dallas, Texas, and Perry Brothers Music Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The volume’s composition is representative of the convention book publishing practices... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Acuff, J. W. (James W.), 1864–1937 and Evridge, W. D. (William D.), 1873–1932 Date: 1909 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The Waco-based Trio Music Company was a vital training ground for Texas gospel teachers and composers from 1895 to 1925, although it began losing contributors to Austin-based competitor Firm Foundations in the 1910s. Both publishing companies catered to the region’s Restorationist movement and it... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Hall, J. H. (Jacob Henry), 1855-1941 Date: 1890~/1899~ Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Editor Jacob Henry Hall (1855–1941) used Songs of Home to advertise his skills as teacher and composer of sacred music. Published at the outset of his career, this small and inexpensive pamphlet features primarily Hall’s own compositions, ranging from musically conservative Sunday school choruses... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Hauser, William, 1812-1880 Date: 1848 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The Hesperian Harp is one of two tunebooks compiled by William Hauser (1812–1880). One of eleven children born into an east Georgia yeoman farming family, Hauser attended local singing schools, was ordained as a Methodist preacher, and ascended into the professional class where he worked as physi... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Date: 1875 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: With the 1873 installation of Bishop John C. Keener in Mexico City, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South was eager to expand its influence. Intended for use by a growing lay Methodist community, Himnos para uso de la Iglesia Metodista del sur combined newly written hymns with Spanish-language se... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Date: 1914-02-10 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a prayer by Lucy Rider Meyer that is based upon hymn number 317, ""More Love to Thee."" It is also based upon Psalms 147 and 148. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Date: 1914-01-16 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a prayer by Lucy Rider Meyer which is inspired by hymn number 354. It is based upon Romans 12. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer which asks for the help and forgiveness of God. There is also a focus upon God's will and salvation. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Smith, H. Augustine (Henry Augustine), 1874-1952 Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Creator: Coffin, Henry Sloane, 1877-1954 Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Creator: Persons, Simmons and Kennedy, R. Emmet (Robert Emmet), 1877-1941 Date: 1925 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Writer and collector Robert Emmett Kennedy (1877–1941) built a career reproducing the black music and storytelling traditions he encountered in his hometown of Gretna, Louisiana, for white audiences. A first-generation Irish American pianist and vocalist, Kennedy’s 1924 Black Cameos was his first... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Loughridge, R. M. (Robert McGill), 1809-1900 and Winslett, David, -1862 Date: 1851 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Prepared by Muskogee convert David Winslett (?–1862) and Anglo-American missionary R. M. Loughridge (1809–1900), Nakcokv Esyvhiketv was the first full-length hymnal published in the Muskogee (Creek) language. In addition to translations of well-known English hymns, this words-only volume includes... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Corlett, D. S., Moore, John E., Messer, L. C., Aycock, Jarrette E., Reinbarger, C. C., Reep, George D., Wells, Kenneth, Wallin, Henry B., Lillenas, Haldor, 1885-1959, and Petticord, E. W. (Emory W.), 1880- Date: 1925 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: New Songs of the Old Faith features new compositions, “favorite hymns,” and gospel songs popular at its date of publication. Edited by Norwegian American composer Haldor Lillenas (1885–1959), the volume has ties to the Church of the Nazarene, an offshoot of the nineteenth-century Holiness movemen... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Shelton, T. J., 1849–1929 and Rosecrans, J. H. (James Holmes), 1845-1926 Date: 1876 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The preface of Polished Pearls identifies congregations unable to afford full-length hymnals as the volume’s primary audience. This target group likely included the Restorationist church pastored by compiler T. J. Shelton (1849–1929) in Arcola, Illinois. Collaborating with Ohio Valley church musi... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Lloyd, Benjamin, 1804-1860 Date: 1857 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: First published in 1841, Primitive Hymns was the earliest hymnal created specifically for Primitive Baptist use. Still popular among white and black Primitive Baptist communities, this volume is an enduring testament to a singing practice associated with words-only hymnals but spanning both print... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Root, George F. (George Frederick), 1820-1895 Date: 1870 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Publisher Root & Cady issued The Prize in response to a call for Sunday school materials to complement the weekly lesson topics announced in the interdenominational periodical National Sunday School Teacher. Root biographer P. H. Carder attributes the call to a young Dwight L. Moody, who later ro... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's (Philadelphia, Pa.) Date: 1763 Contributing Institution: Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA Description: Formally titled, "A Collection of Psalm Tunes, with a few Anthems and Hymns, Some of them Entirely New, for the Use Of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia." The text includes "A Short Introduction To The Art of Psalmody," with explanations of note lengths, ... View Full Item at Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA -
Date: 1986 Contributing Institution: Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Description: This is a handwritten list of publications by Lucy Rider Meyer, including books, poems, songs, and hymns. The list was written in 1986. View Full Item at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary -
Creator: Shepardson, Francis Wayland, 1862-1937 Date: 1909 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Creator: Vaughan, James D., 1863-1941 Date: 1908 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: James D. Vaughan (1863–1941) began publishing a series of successful gospel annuals in 1903, later implementing innovative marketing strategies that would become white southern gospel industry standards. By Silver Trumpet’s 1908 publication date, the James D. Vaughan Company was still developing ... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Doane, W. Howard (William Howard), 1832-1915 Date: 1883 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Editor William Howard Doane (1832–1915) enjoyed collaborations with prominent hymnodists and composers like Fanny Crosby and Robert Lowry, navigating a distinguished publishing career with Baptist denominational outlets and major houses in New York City and Philadelphia before settling in the Ohi... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Glenn, R. A. Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Despite its Anabaptist roots, the Ruebush-Kieffer Company did not issue this volume, its first of temperance songs, until 1881. By that time, temperance was no longer the purview of charities and individual denominations, but rather a growing international movement. Editor R. A. Glenn had been a ... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Unseld, B. C. (Benjamin Carl), 1843-1923 and Kieffer, Aldine S., 1840-1904 Date: 1877 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: This late April 1877 volume features singing school songs and a variety of church tunes, including nineteenth-century standards and anthems. Temple Star is the first Ruebush, Kieffer and Company publication issued using the seven-shape notational system devised by Jesse B. Aikin. From the 1850s t... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Keble, John, 1792-1866 Date: 1907 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library