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Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 711 hymnals Scripture: 2 Samuel 23:1-7 Lyrics: 1 How beauteous are their feet who stand on Zion's hill, who bring salvation on their tongues and words of peace reveal! 2 How welcome is their voice, how sweet the tidings are! Zion, behold thy Saviour King; he reigns and triumphs here. 3 How happy are our ears that hear this joyful sound, which seers and rulers waited for and sought, but never found. 4 How blessed are our eyes that see this heavenly light! Prophets and saints desired it long, but died without the sight. 5 The sentinels in song their tuneful notes employ; Jerusalem breaks forth in hymns and deserts sing for joy. 6 The glory of the Lord shines through the earth abroad: let every nation now behold their Saviour and their God. Topics: Call and Vocation; Advent; Salvation/Redemption Used With Tune: VENICE

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HEATHLANDS

Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 83 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Thomas Smart, 1813-1879 Scripture: 2 Samuel 23:4 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 51756 65423 45432 Used With Text: Christ, whose glory fills the skies

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How Beauteous Are Their Feet

Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #443 (1998) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Scripture: 2 Samuel 23:1-7 Lyrics: 1 How beauteous are their feet who stand on Zion's hill, who bring salvation on their tongues and words of peace reveal! 2 How welcome is their voice, how sweet the tidings are! Zion, behold thy Saviour King; he reigns and triumphs here. 3 How happy are our ears that hear this joyful sound, which seers and rulers waited for and sought, but never found. 4 How blessed are our eyes that see this heavenly light! Prophets and saints desired it long, but died without the sight. 5 The sentinels in song their tuneful notes employ; Jerusalem breaks forth in hymns and deserts sing for joy. 6 The glory of the Lord shines through the earth abroad: let every nation now behold their Saviour and their God. Topics: Call and Vocation; Advent; Salvation/Redemption Languages: English Tune Title: VENICE

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Michael Haydn

1737 - 1806 Scripture: 2 Samuel 23:4 Composer of "OFFERTORIUM" in Rejoice in the Lord Johann Michael Haydn Austria 1737-1806. Born at Rohrau, Austria, the son of a wheelwright and town mayor (a very religious man who also played the harp and was a great influence on his sons' religious thinking), and the younger brother of Franz Joseph Haydn, he became a choirboy in his youth at the Cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna, as did his brother, Joseph, an exceptional singer. For that reason boys both were taken into the church choir. Michael was a brighter student than Joseph, but was expelled from music school when his voice broke at age 17. The brothers remained close all their lives, and Joseph regarded Michael's religious works superior to his own. Michael played harpsichord, violin, and organ, earning a precarious living as a freelance musician in his early years. In 1757 he became kapellmeister to Archbishop, Sigismund of Grosswardein, in Hungary, and in 1762 concertmaster to Archbishop, Hieronymous of Salzburg, where he remained the rest of his life (over 40 years), also assuming the duties of organist at the Church of St. Peter in Salzburg, presided over by the Benedictines. He also taught violin at the court. He married the court singer, Maria Magdalena Lipp in 1768, daughter of the cathedral choir-master, who was a very pious women, and had such an affect on her husband, trending his inertia and slothfulness into wonderful activity. They had one daughter, Aloysia Josepha, in 1770, but she died within a year. He succeeded Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an intimate friend, as cathedral organist in 1781. He also taught music to Carl Maria von Weber. His musical reputation was not recognized fully until after World War II. He was a prolific composer of music, considered better than his well-known brother at composing religious works. He produced some 43 symphonies,12 concertos, 21 serenades, 6 quintets, 19 quartets, 10 trio sonatas, 4 due sonatas, 2 solo sonatas, 19 keyboard compositions, 3 ballets, 15 collections of minuets (English and German dances), 15 marches and miscellaneous secular music. He is best known for his religious works (well over 400 pieces), which include 47 antiphons, 5 cantatas, 65 canticles, 130 graduals, 16 hymns, 47 masses, 7 motets, 65 offertories, 7 oratorios, 19 Psalms settings, 2 requiems, and 42 other compositions. He also composed 253 secular vocals of various types. He did not like seeing his works in print, and kept most in manuscript form. He never compiled or cataloged his works, but others did it later, after his death. Lothar Perger catalogued his orchestral works in 1807 and Nikolaus Lang did a biographical sketch in 1808. In 1815 Anton Maria Klafsky cataloged his sacred music. More complete cataloging has been done in the 1980s and 1990s by Charles H Sherman and T Donley Thomas. Several of Michael Haydn's works influenced Mozart. Haydn died at Salzburg, Austria. John Perry

Julia Ward Howe

1819 - 1910 Person Name: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) Scripture: 2 Samuel 23:4 Author of "Glory, glory, Hallelujah" in Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise Born: May 27, 1819, New York City. Died: October 17, 1910, Middletown, Rhode Island. Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Howe, Julia, née Ward, born in New York City in 1819, and married in 1843 the American philanthropist S. G. Howe. She has taken great interest in political matters, and is well known through her prose and poetical works. Of the latter there are Passion Flower, 1854; Words of the Hour, 1856; Later Lyrics, 1866; and From Sunset Ridge, 1896. Her Battle Hymn of the Republic, "eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," was written in 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War, and was called forth by the sight of troops for the seat of war, and published in her Later Lyrics, 1806, p. 41. It is found in several American collections, including The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, and others. [M. C. Hazard, Ph.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ============================ Howe, Julia Ward. (New York, New York, May 27, 1819--October 17, 1910). Married Samuel Gridley Howe on April 26, 1843. She was a woman with a distinguished personality and intellect; an abolitionist and active in social reforms; author of several book in prose and verse. The latter include Passion Flower, 1854; Words of the Hours, 1856; Later Lyrics, 1866; and From a Sunset Ridge, 1896. She became famous as the author of the poem entitled "Battle Hymn of the Republic," which, in spite of its title, was written as a patriotic song and not as a hymn for use in public worship, but which has been included in many American hymn books. It was written on November 19, 1861, while she and her husband, accompanied by their pastor, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, minister of the (Unitarian) Church of the Disciples, Boston, were visiting Washington soon after the outbreak of the Civil War. She had seen the troops gathered there and had heard them singing "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave" to a popular tune called "Glory, Hallelujah" composed a few years earlier by William Steffe of Charleston, South Carolina, for Sunday School use. Dr. Clarke asked Julie Howe if she could not write more uplifting words for the tune and as she woke early the next morning she found the verses forming in her mind as fast as she could write them down, so completely that later she re-wrote only a line or two in the last stanza and changed only four words in other stanzas. She sent the poem to The Atlantic Monthly, which paid her $4 and published it in its issue for February, 1862. It attracted little attention until it caught the eye of Chaplain C. C. McCable (later a Methodist bishop) who had a fine singing voice and who taught it first to the 122nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry regiment to which he was attached, then to other troops, and to prisoners in Libby Prison after he was made a prisoner of war. Thereafter it quickly came into use throughout the North as an expression of the patriotic emotion of the period. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

John Hullah

1812 - 1884 Scripture: 2 Samuel 23:5 Composer of "BENTLEY" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise Born: June 27, 1812, Worcester, England. Died: February 21, 1884, London, England.