Author: Katharyn Bacon
A song which encourages us to sing and praise the Lord’s power morning, noon, and night is "Do You Praise and Thank Him?" The text was written by Katharyn Bacon. I have been able to locate no further information about this author, except that in a Bibliography of Shape Note Hymnals entitled "Hymnals and Hymnody in the Appalachian Collection — A Bibliography," from the Carol Grotnes Belk Library of the Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, compiled by Brenda Gale Beasley in Spring, 2001, and updated by Ruthie Blakeney in Spring, 2005 ( www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll/research_aids/hymnody/index.html ) I found reference to a shaped-note hymnal "Lights of Home: A Collection of Sacred Songs, Both New and Old, for the Church, the Sunda…
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