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EDEN

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. F. White Incipit: 31355 43213 56716 Used With Text: Christ and His cross is all our theme

Author: Elizabeth Mills Appears in 645 hymnals First Line: O land of rest, for thee I sigh Refrain First Line: O Eden is the land of rest Used With Tune: [O land of rest, for thee I sigh]

What shall I render to my God

Appears in 294 hymnals Used With Tune: EDEN

Christ and His cross is all our theme

Appears in 117 hymnals Used With Tune: EDEN

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What shall I render to my God

Hymnal: The Good Old Songs #558 (1914) Languages: English Tune Title: EDEN

Christ and His cross is all our theme

Hymnal: The Good Old Songs #559 (1914) Languages: English Tune Title: EDEN

Eden

Author: Elizabeth Mills Hymnal: The Gospel Call #13 (1921) First Line: O land of rest, for thee I sigh Refrain First Line: O Eden is a land of rest Languages: English Tune Title: [O land of rest, for thee I sigh]

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B. F. White

1800 - 1879 Composer of "EDEN" in The Good Old Songs Benjamin F. White (b. Spartanburg, SC, 1800; d. Atlanta, GA, 1879), was coeditor of The Sacred Harp (1844). He came from a family of fourteen children and was largely self-taught. Eventually White became a popular singing-school teacher and editor of the weekly Harris County newspaper. Bert Polman

Elizabeth Mills

1805 - 1829 Author of "Eden" in Amazing Grace Mills, Elizabeth, née King, daughter of Philip King, was born at Stoke Newington in 1805; married to Thomas Mills, M.P., and died at Finsbury Place, London, April 21, 1829. Her popular hymn:— We speak of the realms of the blest. [Heaven] is thus annotated in Miller's Singers and Songs, &c, 1869, p. 483: "We are much indebted to John Remington Mills, Esq., M.P. for information about this hymn, written by his accomplished relative. The original has 6 st. and was composed after reading ‘Bridges on the 119th Psalm' (on ver. 44, p. 116), ‘We speak of heaven, but oh! to be there.' . . . Already deservedly a favourite, new interest will be added to this hymn when we know that the authoress was early called to ‘the realms of the blest,' of which she sang so sweetly, and that she wrote this hymn a few weeks before her death." The text of this hymn is usually given in an imperfect form. The corrections are supplied by W. F. Stevenson in his Hymns for Church and Home, 1873, "Children's Hymns," No. 151, and the note thereon. Few children's hymns have been received with more favour. It is found in almost every hymn-book published for Children in Great Britain and America during the last fifty years. In some collections it begins, "We sing of the land of the blest"; and in others,"We talk of the land of the blest," --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)