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How Blest and Happy
Appears in 14 hymnals First Line: How blest and happy is the man
How Blest and Happy
[How blest and happy is the man]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: James McGranahan Incipit: 13556 55431 17165 Used With Text: The Blessedness of the Godly
[How blest and happy is the man]
[Blest and happy is the man]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Dwight Armstrong Used With Text: BLEST AND HAPPY IS THE MAN
[Blest and happy is the man]
THE HAPPY MAN
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. D. A. Duff Used With Text: How blest and happy is the man
THE HAPPY MAN
How Blest and Happy
Hymnal: Melodies of Salvation #7 (1901) First Line: How blest and happy is the man Refrain First Line: How blest and happy is the man Lyrics: 1 How blest and happy is the man
Who walketh not astray
In counsel of ungodly men,
Nor stands in sinners’ way,
Nor sitteth in the scorner’s chair,
But places his delight
Upon God’s law, and meditates
Upon it day and night.
Refrain:
How blest and happy is the man
Who places His delight,
Upon God’s law, and meditates
Upon it day and night.
2 He shall be like a tree that grows
Set by a river’s side,
Which in its season yields its fruit,
And greet its leaves abide,
And all he does shall prosper well;
The wicked are not so,
But like the chaff before the wind,
Are driven to and fro. [Refrain]
Scripture: Psalm 1 Languages: English Tune Title: [How blest and happy is the man]
How Blest and Happy
BLEST AND HAPPY IS THE MAN
Hymnal: The Bible Hymnal #1 (2013) Refrain First Line: All he does prospers well Scripture: Psalm 1 Tune Title: [Blest and happy is the man]
BLEST AND HAPPY IS THE MAN
How Blest and Happy
Hymnal: Melodies of Salvation #7 (1900) First Line: How blest and happy is the man Refrain First Line: How blest and happy is the man Languages: English Tune Title: [How blest and happy is the man]
How Blest and Happy
James McGranahan
1840 - 1907 Composer of "[How blest and happy is the man]" in Bible Songs James McGranahan USA 1840-1907. Born at West Fallowfield, PA, uncle of Hugh McGranahan, and son of a farmer, he farmed during boyhood. Due to his love of music his father let him attend singing school, where he learned to play the bass viol. At age 19 he organized his first singing class and soon became a popular teacher in his area of the state. He became a noted musician and hymns composer. His father was reluctant to let him pursue this career, but he soon made enough money doing it that he was able to hire a replacement farmhand to help his father while he studied music. His father, a wise man, soon realized how his son was being used by God to win souls through his music. He entered the Normal Music School at Genesco, NY, under William B Bradbury in 1861-62. He met Miss Addie Vickery there. They married in 1863, and were very close to each other their whole marriage, but had no children. She was also a musician and hymnwriter in her own right. For a time he held a postmaster’s job in Rome, PA. In 1875 he worked for three years as a teacher and director at Dr. Root’s Normal Music Institute. He because well-known and successful as a result, and his work attracted much attention. He had a rare tenor voice, and was told he should train for the operatic stage. It was a dazzling prospect, but his friend, Philip Bliss, who had given his wondrous voice to the service of song for Christ for more than a decade, urged him to do the same. Preparing to go on a Christmas vacation with his wife, Bliss wrote McGranahan a letter about it, which McGranahan discussed with his friend Major Whittle. Those two met in person for the first time at Ashtubula, OH, both trying to retrieve the bodies of the Bliss’s, who died in a bridge-failed train wreck. Whittle thought upon meeting McGranahan, that here is the man Bliss has chosen to replace him in evangelism. The men returned to Chicago together and prayed about the matter. McGranahan gave up his post office job and the world gained a sweet gospel singer/composer as a result. McGranahan and his wife, and Major Whittle worked together for 11 years evangelizing in the U.S., Great Britain, and Ireland. They made two visits to the United Kingdom, in 1880 and 1883, the latter associated with Dwight Moody and Ira Sankey evangelistic work. McGranahan pioneered use of the male choir in gospel song. While holding meetings in Worcester, MA, he found himself with a choir of only male voices. Resourcefully, he quickly adapted the music to those voices and continued with the meetings. The music was powerful and started what is known as male choir and quartet music. Music he published included: “The choice”, “Harvest of song”, “Gospel Choir”,, “Gospel hymns #3,#4, #5, #6” (with Sankey and Stebbins), “Songs of the gospel”, and “Male chorus book”. The latter three were issued in England. In 1887 McGranahan’s health compelled him to give up active work in evangelism. He then built a beautiful home, Maplehurst, among friends at Kinsman, OH, and settled down to the composition of music, which would become an extension of his evangelistic work. Though his health limited his hours, of productivity, some of his best hymns were written during these days. McGranahan was a most lovable, gentle, modest, unassuming, gentleman, and a refined and cultured Christian. He loved good fellowship, and often treated guests to the most delightful social feast. He died of diabetes at Kinsman, OH, and went home to be with his Savior.
John Perry
James McGranahan
Chas. H. Gabriel
1856 - 1932 Composer of "[How blest and happy is the man]" in His Praise Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree
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For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades.
Bert Polman
Chas. H. Gabriel
J. Henry Showalter
1864 - 1947 Composer of "[How blest and happy is the man]" in The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship
J. Henry Showalter
