Little things

Author: Mrs. T. J. Carney

Little drops of water, p. 679, i. The author of the earliest form of this hymn, the Rev. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, LL.D., son of J. S. Brewer, was born in London, May 2, 1810, and died March 6, 1897.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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This hymn has also been attributed to Ebenezer Cobham Brewer but it is clearly the work of Mrs. T. J. Carney. It was mis-credited to Brewer in the book Poems that Every Child Should Know published in 1904 by Doubleday, Page and Co. and edited by Mary E. Burt. Our Women Workers: biographical sketches of women eminent in the Universalist Church for literary, and philanthropic and Christian work, 3rd ed., by Mrs. E. R. Hanson published in 1881 by The Star and Covenant Office credits the hymn to Carney.

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