A mourning class, a vacant seat

Text Information

First Line: A mourning class, a vacant seat
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

A mourning class, a vacant seat. [Death of a Scholar.] Appeared anonymously in the American Union Hymns, Philadelphia Sunday School Union, 1835, No. 285, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, and headed "Death of a Scholar." It has been repeated in later editions of the Union Hymns, and is in extensive use in America. In Great Britain, it has been adopted by a few Sunday School hymn-books only. Original text, Methodist Free Church Sunday School Hymn Book, 1869, No. 358, with "the" for "his" in stanza ii., line 2. [William T. Brooke]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Tune

OLD HUNDREDTH

This tune is likely the work of the composer named here, but has also been attributed to others as shown in the instances list below. According to the Handbook to the Baptist Hymnal (1992), Old 100th first appeared in the Genevan Psalter, and "the first half of the tune contains phrases which may ha…

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CONSTANCE (Wilson)


A MOURNING CLASS


Timeline

Instances

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Union Hymns. Rev. #d3

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Select Hymns #459

Portsmouth Sunday School Hymn Book #d2

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The Child's Hymn Book #131

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The Young Choir #69

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The American Baptist Sabbath-School Hymn-Book #264

The Sunday School Choir and Superintendent's Assistant #d1

Union Hymns. Rev. #d3

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A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America. #574

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Hymns for Youth, Suitable to be Used in Sabbath and Parochial Schools #283

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The Public School Singing Book #154

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The Sabbath School Lyre #200

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Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #S70

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Bradbury's Sabbath School Melodies, and Family Choir #16

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The Sabbath School Melodist #171

Songs of Praise for Sabbath Schools and Families. New ed. #d1

The Baptist Sabbath School Hymn Book #d5

The Sunday School Melodist #d3

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Hymns for Sunday Schools, Youth, and Children #70

Hymns for Schools and Families #d3

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Sabbath School Songs #61c

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Hymns for Sunday Schools, Youth and Children #493

Select Hymns #d2

The Carol #d2

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Mission Songs #172

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Sunday-School Hymns #184

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The Presbyterian Juvenile Psalmodist #230

The Sabbath School Lyre #d2

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Hymns for Sunday Schools, Youth, and Children #493

Sabbath School Choir #d1

The Golden Harp #d3

American Sunday School Hymn Book. 2nd ed. #a305

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American Sunday School Hymn Book. New ed. #aa305

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The American Sunday-School Hymn-Book #305

The Sabbath School Hymn Book #d3

The Union Harp and Revival Chorister. Rev ed. #d6

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The Young People's Chorister #271b

Sunday School Hymn Book #d6

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The Sabbath School Minstrel #24

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Hosanna for the Sunday School #192

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