Happy the Home When God Is There

Representative Text

1. Happy the home when God is there,
And love fills every breast;
When one their wish, and one their prayer,
And one their heav’nly rest.

2. Happy the home where Jesus’ name
Is sweet to every ear;
Where children early speak His fame,
And parents hold Him dear.

3. Happy the home where prayer is heard,
And praise is wont to rise;
Where parents love the sacred Word
And all its wisdom prize.

4. Lord, let us in our homes agree
This blessed peace to gain;
Unite our hearts in love to Thee,
And love to all will reign.

Source: 50 Uncommon Songs: for partakers of the common salvation #10

Author: Henry Ware

Henry Ware was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1793. His father was a Unitarian minister; afterwards a Professor in Harvard College. Young Ware graduated at Harvard, studied theology, and became minister of the Second Unitarian Society, in Boston, in 1817. After a ministry of twelve years, he made a foreign tour, and on his return was elected "Parkman Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Theology" in Harvard College. In this position he obtained eminence. He died in September, 1843. His collected works in four volumes, were edited after his death, by the Rev. Chandler Robbins. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Happy the home when God is there, And love fills every breast
Title: Happy the Home When God Is There
Author: Henry Ware (1846)
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: English
Notes: Spanish translation: "Si Dios está, feliz hogar" by Pablo D. Ostuni
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Happy the home, when God is there. [ A Christian Home.] Appeared in Mrs. Mayo's Selection of Hymns & Poetry for the Use of Infant and Juvenile Schools and Families, 3rd. ed. 1846, No. 50, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines and entitled "The Happy Home," and signed "Mrs. W." It was included in the American Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, and later in several hymnals.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Tune

ST. AGNES (Dykes)

John B. Dykes (PHH 147) composed ST. AGNES for [Jesus the Very Thought of Thee]. Dykes named the tune after a young Roman Christian woman who was martyred in A.D. 304 during the reign of Diocletian. St. Agnes was sentenced to death for refusing to marry a nobleman to whom she said, "I am already eng…

Go to tune page >


Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #2145
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
Methodist Tune Book: a collection of tunes adapted to the Methodist Hymn book #100
The United Methodist Hymnal #445
  • Bulletin Score (melody only) (PDF)
  • Bulletin Score (PDF)
  • Full Score (PDF)

Instances

Instances (1 - 14 of 14)
TextPage Scan

50 Uncommon Songs #10

Great Songs of the Church (Revised) #438

TextPage Scan

Hymns for a Pilgrim People #288

Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #204

Praise! Our Songs and Hymns #148

Text

Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #655

TextPage Scan

Sing Joyfully #611

TextPage Scan

The Book of Praise #703

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #2145

Text

The Song Book of the Salvation Army #661

TextAudioPage Scan

The United Methodist Hymnal #445

Text

Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #720

TextPage Scan

Worship and Service Hymnal #472

Worship His Majesty #570

Include 66 pre-1979 instances
Suggestions or corrections? Contact us