O tell me, thou life and delight of my soul

O tell me, thou life and delight of my soul

Author: Thomas Hastings
Tune: STILL WATER
Published in 45 hymnals

Author: Thomas Hastings

Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >

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A Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs; suited to the various kinds of Christian worship; and especially designed for and adapted to the Fraternity of the Brethren... #404Image
A Manual of Devotion and Hymns for the House of Refuge, City of New York #112Image
A Selection of Spiritual Songs: with music for the Church and the Choir #615Image
Book of Praise for the Sunday School: with hymns and tunes appropriate for the prayer meeting and the home circle #52bImage
Calvary Selection of Spiritual Songs with Music for the Church and the Choir #d678
Church Melodies: collection of psalms and hymns, with appropriate music. For the use of congregations. #209Image
Happy Voices #d142
Hymns for Christian Melody #134Image
Hymns for Use in Divine Worship ... Seventh-Day Adventists #d811
Methodist Social Hymn Book #217Image
Millennial Harp: designed for meetings on the second coming Christ (Improved ed.) #C122Image
Mission Songs: a collection of hymns and music, designed for Sabbath schools #[17]Image
Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations #732Image
Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs: a manual of worship for the church of Christ #35Image
Revival Hymns #161Image
Sacred Songs for Social Worship #110Image
Songs for the New Life #d490
Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship #ad830
Songs for the Sanctuary: or hymns and tunes for Christian Worship #759Image
Songs for the Sanctuary: or hymns and tunes for Christian Worship #759Image
Songs for the Sanctuary: or hymns and tunes for Christian worship #759Image
Songs for the Sanctuary; or Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Baptist Ed.) #759Image
Songs for the Sanctuary; or, Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Words only) #759Image
Songs for the School #d115
Songs of the Church: or, hymns and tunes for Christian worship #460Image
Spiritual Songs for Social Worship: adapted to the use of families and private circles in seasons of revival, to missionary meetings, to the monthly concert, and to other occasions... (3rd ed.) #151Image
Spiritual Songs for Social Worship: adapted to the use of families and private circles in seasons of rivival, to missionary meetings, to the monthly concert, and to other occasions of special interest #151Image
Spiritual Songs for Social Worship: adapted to the use of families and private circles, to missinary meetings, to monthly concert, and to other occasions of special interest.(Rev. and Enl. Ed.) #151Image
Temple Melodies: a collection of about two hundred popular tunes, adapted to nearly five hundred favorite hymns, selected with special reference to public, social, and private worship #415Image
The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book: being "The Plymouth Collection" enlarged and adapted to the use of Baptist churches #732Image
The Book of Worship #d386
The Calvary Selection of Spiritual Songs: with music for use in social meetings. #346Image
The Carol #d78
The Church-Book #d334
The Church Hymnal ... Seventh-Day Adventist Church #400
The Church of God Selection of Spiritual Songs for the Church and Choir #d673
The Hymnal of the Reformed Church in the United States #d489
The Hymnist: Heart Hymns and Home Melodies #d72
The Hymns of "Happy Voices" (without music) #d143
The Manual of Praise for Sabbath and Social Worship #334Image
The Minstrel of Zion: a book of religious songs, accompanied with appropriate music, chiefly original #168aImage
The Plymouth Hymnal #d393
The Praise Hymnary: a collection of sacred song #189Image
The School Hymn and Tune Book #d132
The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #779Image