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Blessed Are They
Author: E. A. Hoffman Appears in 15 hymnals First Line: Blessed are they that do His commandments Refrain First Line: Blessed are they, blessed are they
Blessed Are They
[Blessed are they that do his commandments]
Appears in 1 hymnal Tune Sources: Arr. from an Anthem in the IMPERIAL Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 11112 32321 25555 Used With Text: Sentence--Blessed Are They
[Blessed are they that do his commandments]
[Blessed are they that do his commandments]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. R. M. Incipit: 32143 26721 16153 Used With Text: Blessed Are They
[Blessed are they that do his commandments]
[Blessed are they that do his commandments]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Winthrop Incipit: 33334 54543 22343 Used With Text: Blessed Are They
[Blessed are they that do his commandments]
Sentence--Blessed Are They
Hymnal: Joyful Songs #114 (1875) First Line: Blessed are they that do his commandments Lyrics: 1 Blessed are they that do his commandments,
Blessed are they, Blessed are they,
Blessed are they that do his commandments,
That they may have right to the tree of life,
and may enter in, enter in.
Thro' the gates into the city,
Thro' the gates, the gates into the city. Languages: English Tune Title: [Blessed are they that do his commandments]
Sentence--Blessed Are They
Blessed Are They
Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Sunny-Side Songs for Sunday Schools #76 (1893) First Line: Blessed are they that do His commandments Refrain First Line: Blessed are they, blessed are they Languages: English Tune Title: [Blessed are they that do His commandments]
Blessed Are They
Blessed Are They
Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Garlands of Praise #88 (1876) First Line: Blessed are they that do his commandments Refrain First Line: Blessed, blessed, blessed Languages: English Tune Title: [Blessed are they that do his commandments]
Blessed Are They
E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "Blessed Are They" in Garlands of Praise Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873.
Mary Louise VanDyke
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Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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E. A. Hoffman
James R. Murray
1841 - 1905 Person Name: J. R. M. Composer of "[Blessed are they that do his commandments]" in Royal Praise for the Sunday School L.P.M. (1905, April 12). Obituary. New Church Messenger, p.209.
Murray.--At Cincinnati, March 10, 1905, James Ramsey Murray. Funeral services in the Church of the New Jersualem, March 13th.
James R. Murray was widely known in the musical world as the author of many songs and song books, and in the New Church in Chicago and Cincinnati as an affectionate, intelligent, and loyal New Churchman.
He was born in Andover (Ballard Vale), Mass., March 17, 1841. In early life he developed musical talent, and composed many minor pieces for local and special occasions. Later at North Reading, Mass., he attended Dr. George F. Root's School of Music, and was associated with William Bradbury and Dr. Lowell Mason. He enlisted in the Fourteenth Regiment of infantry, commonly known as the Essex County Regiment, and afterwards was changed to the First Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, which was engaged in most of the battles fought by the Second Army Corps up to the surrender of General Lee.
"Daisy Deane," the first and most popular of his early song successes, was composed in 1863 in Virginia while in camp, words by his cousin, Thomas F. Winthrop. This song is known all over the world, and the Salvation Army is using an arrangement of it for one of their war cry songs.
In 1868 Mr. Murray married Isabella Maria Taylor of Andover; and they removed to Chicago. Here three children were born to them, two passing early to their heavenly home, the youngest, Winthrop Root Murray, is still living. It was during these first years in Chicago that Mr. and Mrs. Murray became interested in the New Church, while he was engaged with Root and Cady as editor of the Long Visitor, afterwards merged with the Musical Visitor. After the great fire of 1871 Mr. and Mrs. Murray returned East, where he was engaged in teaching in Lawrence and Andover, and as organist at the Old South Church in Andover. In 1881 they removed to Cincinnati and Mr. Murray became the editor of the Musical Viistor [sic] and head of the publication department of the John Church Company. Among the most popular of his books are "Pure Diamonds," "Royal Gems," "The Prize" and "Murray's Sacred Songs." The following titles will recall some of his best loved sacred songs: "At Last," "Calm on the Listening Ear of Night," "I Shall Be Satisfied," "There Shall No Evil Befall Thee," "Thine, O Lord, Is the Greatness," "The Way Was Mine," "How Beautiful Upon the Mountains," "Angels from the Realms of Glory."
His last great labor in the publishing department of the John Church Company was the seeing through the press five volumes of Wagner's music dramas, with full score and original German text, and an English translation. The immense and careful labor involved in the preparation of these volumes, with a really smooth and excellent English translation, had perhaps, as it was done under pressure, something to do with Mr. Murray's breakdown. Although for some reason Mr. Murray's name does not appear on the title page of these volumes, his friends knew of the place the work held in his affections and ambition.
Mr. Murray was a member of the Church Council of the Cincinnati Society for the last four years and took a deep interest in the building of the New Church, and in the inauguration of services, with all the changes looking to the improvement of the musical part of the service. The vested choir, organized by Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, which Mr. Murray as councilman had urged from the beginning, in their entrance to the church each Sunday singing the processional hymn participated in the funeral service, with a congregation of brethren and friends, all moved by deep love and profound respect for the consistent life and faith of a worthy Churchman and beloved friend.
--DNAH Archives
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For a discussion of Murray and the tune MUELLER, see: Stulken, M.K. (1981). Hymnal companion to the Lutheran Book of Worship. Philadelphia : Fortress Press, p.170.
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Also available in the DNAH Archives:
1. An excerpt from Christie, George A. (1927). New Free Church. In Music in Andover. Papers read at "Fagot Party" of the Andover Natural History Society.
2. Unsourced essay about Murray written soon after his death, likely from Andover, Mass., perhaps authored by Charlotte Helen Abbott.
James R. Murray
J. H. Tenney
1840 - 1918 Composer of "[Blessed are they that do his commandments]" in Garlands of Praise John Harrison Tenney, 1840-1918
Born: November 22, 1840, Rowley, Massachusetts.
Born just after the presidential campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too," Tenney was named after American president William Henry Harrison. A deacon in the Congregational Church in Linebrook, Massachusetts, he edited or was associate editor of over 30 books, and contributed to hundreds more. His works include:
American Male Choir
Temperance Jewels, with Elisha Hoffman (Boston, Massachusetts: Oliver Ditson & Company, 1879)
Bells of Victory, with Elisha Hoffman (Boston, Massachusetts: Oliver Ditson & Company, 1888)
Gems of Gospel Song
Golden Sunbeams
Sharon’s Dewy Rose
Songs of Faith
Shining Light
Songs of Joy
Sparkling and Bright
Spiritual Songs, Nos. 1 and 2
Sweet Fields of Eden
The Beacon Light
The Singing School Banner
The Anthem Offering
The American Anthem Book
The Crown of Praise
Sources--
Hall, pp. 219-22
Music--
Asilomar
Bogotá
Beyond the Swelling Flood
Cancún
Come to Jesus
Ever Will I Pray
Hallowed Hour of Prayer
Jesus Is Passing This Way
Jubilate!
My Anchor Is Holding
Nothing Between
Onward Christian Soldiers
Sabbath Bell
San Francisco
We’ll Never Say Goodbye
Where Will You Spend Eternity?
--www.hymntime.com/tch
J. H. Tenney
