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Firmness and Trust

Author: Mrs. Mayo Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Be firm whatever tempts thy soul Topics: Trials and Temptations Used With Tune: RELIANCE

RELIANCE

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: I. B. Woodbury Incipit: 33335 43223 33432 Used With Text: Firmness and Trust

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Be firm whatever tempts thy soul

Author: Sarah C. E. Mayo Hymnal: The Golden Harp #d28 (1858)

Be firm! whatever tempts thy soul

Author: Sarah C. E. Mayo Hymnal: The Psalms of Life #44 (1857)

Firmness and Trust

Author: Mrs. Mayo Hymnal: The Gospel Psalmist #487 (1861) First Line: Be firm whatever tempts thy soul Topics: Trials and Temptations Tune Title: RELIANCE

1819 - 1858 Composer of "RELIANCE" in The Gospel Psalmist Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris. He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina. He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

Sarah C. E. Mayo

1819 - 1848 Person Name: Mrs. Mayo Author of "Firmness and Trust" in The Gospel Psalmist Mayo, Sarah Carter Edgarton. (Shirley Village, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, March 17, 1819--July, 1848, Gloucester, Mass.). A sensitive child, who often burst into tears when called upon to recite, she attended the village school and a single term at an academy in Westford, Mass. During those years she read everything she could get her hands on, then later was largely self-taught in Latin, French, and German. She began writing prose and poetry for The Universalist and Ladies' Repository at age 16, soon becoming its editor. She also wrote several works on the language of flowers. After an engagement of several years, she married Amory Dwight Mayo on July 28, 1846, who about that time became the minister of the Independent Christian Church of Gloucester, Mass. Shortly after her early death, he husband published a memoir of her, which includes many excerpts from her writings and correspondence. The latter includes some interesting comments on a trip she made by canal boat to Niagara Falls, with visits along the way. She remained a devout Universalist all of her life. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives See also S.C. Edgarton.