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Beyond the Blue

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Appears in 4 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Beyond the blue, far above the passing gloom Refrain First Line: Land of golden beauty

Appears in 21 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Stephen C. Foster, 1826-1864; Henry L. Gilmour Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 12331 23434 65432 Used With Text: Beyond the Blue

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Land of golden beauty

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal: Heart Melodies No. 2 #d5 (1896) Hymnal Title: Heart Melodies No. 2 First Line: Beyond the blue, far above the passing gloom Languages: English

Beyond the Blue

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Songs of Love and Praise No. 3 #66 (1896) Hymnal Title: Songs of Love and Praise No. 3 First Line: Beyond the blue, far above the passing gloom Refrain First Line: Land of golden beauty! Languages: English Tune Title: [Beyond the blue, far above the passing gloom]

Beyond the blue

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal: Songs of Praise and Power #d23 (1909) Hymnal Title: Songs of Praise and Power First Line: Beyond the blue, far above the passing gloom Refrain First Line: Land of golden beauty

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Person Name: Eliza Edmunds Hewitt Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Author of "Beyond the Blue" in The Cyber Hymnal Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Stephen Collins Foster

1826 - 1864 Person Name: Stephen C. Foster, 1826-1864 Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Composer of "MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME" in The Cyber Hymnal

H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Person Name: Henry L. Gilmour Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Adapter of "MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME" in The Cyber Hymnal Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry