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A Song In The Night

Author: Lizzie DeArmond Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: A song floated down through the silence of night Refrain First Line: Peace, peace, peace on the earth

[A song floated down thro' the silence of night]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edmund Simon Lorenz Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 33165 45656 51712 Used With Text: A Song In The Night

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Author: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #7907 First Line: A song floated down thro’ the silence of night Refrain First Line: Peace, peace, peace on the earth! Lyrics: 1 A song floated down thro’ the silence of night, Enfolding each shadowy plain, Glad welcome to Jesus, the dear Christmas guest, All glorious rang the refrain. Refrain: Peace, peace, peace on the earth! Hear the sweet anthem resounding! Peace, peace, peace on the earth! Message the shepherds astounding! Joy, joy, joy to the world! Sorrow and sin ’tis confounding, Heav’n’s gladness voicing, Rapt with rejoicing, Angels are singing their glad refrain. 2 The mountains and hilltops re-echoed the lay, The earth shone with heavenly light; The word of the prophets, the Gospel of love, Came true on that wonderful night. [Refrain] 3 The hope of the years, the Redeemer divine, Is born in the Bethlehem town; From throne to a manger, the Lord of the skies, The King pure and holy comes down. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [A song floated down thro' the silence of night]

A Song in the Night

Author: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal: His Worthy Praise #175 (1915) First Line: A song floated down through Refrain First Line: Peace, peace, peace on the earth Lyrics: 1 A song floated down thro’ the silence of night, Enfolding each shadowy plain, Glad welcome to Jesus, the dear Christmas guest, All glorious rang the refrain. Refrain: Peace, peace, peace on the earth! Hear the sweet anthem resounding! Peace, peace, peace on the earth! Message the shepherds astounding! Joy, joy, joy to the world! Sorrow and sin ’tis confounding, Heav’n’s gladness voicing, Rapt with rejoicing, Angels are singing their glad refrain. 2 The mountains and hilltops re-echoed the lay, The earth shone with heavenly light; The word of the prophets, the Gospel of love, Came true on that wonderful night. [Refrain] 3 The hope of the years, the Redeemer divine, Is born in the Bethlehem town; From throne to a manger, the Lord of the skies, The King pure and holy comes down. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [A song floated down through]

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Lizzie De Armond

1847 - 1936 Person Name: Lizzie DeArmond Author of "A Song In The Night" Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Composer of "[A song floated down through]" in His Worthy Praise Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund, ==================== Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900. Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany. He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889. Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934). For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree. --Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives