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O Father, take the new-built shrine

Author: Rev. Edward Everett Hale, 1822- Appears in 7 hymnals

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 44 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Carl Christian Nikolai Balle Tune Key: E Major Incipit: 33313 56533 42312 Used With Text: O Father, Take The New-Built Shrine

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O Father, Take The New-Built Shrine

Author: Edward Everett Hale Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8279 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 O Father, take the new-built shrine; The house our hands have reared is Thine; Greet us with welcome when we come, And make our Father’s house our home. 2 Blest with Thy Spirit while we stay, May we Thy Spirit bear away, That every heart a shrine may be, And every home a home for Thee. Languages: English Tune Title: EMMANUEL

O Father, take the new built shrine

Author: Rev. Edward Everett Hale (1822- ) Hymnal: Hymnal Amore Dei #377 (1897) Languages: English

O Father, take the new built shrine

Author: Edward Everett Hale Hymnal: Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home and Services for Congregational Worship. Rev. ed. #d466 (1878) Languages: English

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C. C. N. Balle

1806 - 1855 Person Name: Carl Christian Nikolai Balle Composer of "EMMANUEL" in The Cyber Hymnal Carl Christian Nicolaj Balle was born in Copenhagen on December 25, 1806. He was a Danish composer and editor of church music and served as a pastor in Vesterbølle and Nebsager. He is noted for his Christmas compositions, including the hymn tune "Det kimer nu til julefest". He died on March 3, 1885 in Nebsager, Bjerre, Vejle, Denmark. NN

Edward Everett Hale

1822 - 1909 Author of "O Father, Take The New-Built Shrine" in The Cyber Hymnal Hale, Edward Everett, M.A., b. at Boston, 1822, and graduated at Harvard. From 1846 to 1856 he was pastor of an Unitarian Church at Worcester; and from 1856 he has had the charge of South Church, Boston. He has published several prose works of merit. His hymn, "O Father, take the new-built shrine" (Dedication of a Church), is dated 1858. It was published in Longfellow & Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, No. 223, in 2 stanzas of 4 lines; and was repeated in Martineau's Hymns of Praise & Prayer, Lon., 1873, No. 725. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology