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[In the field with their flocks abiding]

Appears in 30 hymnals Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 34532 12565 12333 Used With Text: In the field with their flocks

In the field with their flocks abiding

Author: Rev. Frederic William Farrar (1831- ) Appears in 48 hymnals Topics: The Lord Jesus Christ Used With Tune: IN THE FIELDS

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In the Field with Their Flocks

Author: F. W. Farrar Hymnal: Northfield Hymnal #54 (1904) First Line: In the field with their flocks abiding Refrain First Line: He sang that first sweet Christmas Lyrics: 1 In the field with their flocks abiding, They lay on the dewy ground; And glimmering under the starlight, The sheep lay white around, When the light of the Lord streamed o’er them, And lo! from the heaven above, An angel leaned from the glory, And sang his song of love:— He sang, that first sweet Christmas, The song that shall never cease. Refrain: “Glory to God in the highest, On earth good will and peace.” 2 “To you in the City of David A Saviour is born today!” And sudden a host of the heav’nly ones Flash’d forth to join the lay! O never hath sweeter message Thrill’d home to the souls of men And the heav’ns themselves had never heard A gladder choir till then, For they sang that Christmas carol, That never on earth shall cease. [Refrain] 3 And the shepherds came to the manger, And gaz’d on the Holy Child; And calmly o’er that rude cradle The Virgin Mother smil’d; And the sky, in the starlit silence, Seem’d full of the angel lay; “To you in the City of David A Saviour is born today;” O they sang—and I ween that never The carol on earth shall cease. [Refrain] Topics: Christmas Tune Title: [In the field with their flocks abiding]

In the Field With Their Flocks

Hymnal: The Epworth Hymnal #48 (1885) First Line: In the field with their flocks abiding Languages: English Tune Title: [In the field with their flocks abiding]

In the Field with Their Flocks

Author: F. W. Farrar Hymnal: The Endeavor Hymnal #254 (1901) First Line: In the field with their flocks abiding Topics: Christmas; Evangelistic; Solos Languages: English Tune Title: [In the field with their flocks abiding]

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John Farmer

1836 - 1901 Person Name: J. Farmer Composer of "[In the field with their flocks abiding]" in Northfield Hymnal Born: August 16, 1835, Nottingham, England. Died: July 17, 1901, at his home in Oxford, England. Buried: St. Sepulchre’s Cemetery, Jericho, Oxford, England. Eldest child of butcher John Farmer and milliner Mary Blackshaw Farmer, John learned to play the piano, violin, and harp when young. He was apprenticed to his uncle Henry Farmer, an organist, composer, and music teacher with a music and musical instrument business in Nottingham. At age 14, John went to study at the Leipzig Conservatory, then three years later under Andreas Spaeth in Coburg for a year. He returned to England in 1853, and entered his father’s lace business. After his mother’s death in 1856, he went to Zürich, Switzerland, where he taught music. He returned to England again in 1861, and became music master of Harrow School in 1864, staying there until 1885. He then accepted an invitation to become organist at at Balliol College, Oxford, where he founded the Balliol Concerts. During his career, Farmer composed oratorios, cantatas, church music, chamber music and numerous school songs, especially for Harrow School. One of his best known compositions was "Forty Years On," which he wrote at Harrow in 1872. While at Balliol, he composed Warwick School’s first school song, "Here’s a Song For All", in 1892. His other works include: Cinderella The oratorio Christ and His Soldiers The cricketing song "Willow the King" Music: FARMER © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Frederick W. Farrar

1831 - 1903 Person Name: F. H. Farrar Author of "Glory to God in the highest" in The Church Hymnal Farrar, Frederic William, D.D., son of the Rev. Charles Penhorn Farrar, sometime a missionary in India, and late Rector of Sidcup, Kent. He was born at Bombay, Aug. 7th, 1831; and educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and at King's College, London. In 1850 he obtained a classical exhibition, and in 1852 a scholarship at the University of London, whence, after taking the degree of B.A., he passed to Trinity College, Cambridge. There, in 1852, he took (with other prizes) the Chancellor's Prize in English verse, and graduated in first-class classical honours in 1854. In the same year he entered Holy Orders, and was subsequently for some time an assistant master at Harrow School. In 1871 he was appointed to the head mastership of Marlborough College, which he held until 1876, when he was nominated a Canon of Westminster Abbey and Rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster. He had previously been chosen Select Preacher before the University of Cambridge in 1868, and again in 1874, 1875, and Hulsean Lecturer in 1870. He was also appointed in 1869 a Chaplain to the Queen, and in 1883, Archdeacon of Westminster. Archdeacon Farrar has achieved a high reputation both as a writer and a preacher. He is the author of some volumes of fiction for the young which soon attained great popularity, as well as of several important works in the departments of philology and theology. Of the latter, his Life of Christ and Life and Work of St. Paul are the best known. As a preacher, Archdeacon Farrar stands in the first rank as a master of graceful eloquence. His contributions to hymnody include, "Father, before Thy throne of light," "God and Father, great and holy," and a beautiful carol, "In the fields with their flocks abiding." [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Farrar, F. W. , p. 365, ii. Dr. Farrar became Dean of Canterbury in 1895, and died at Canterbury, March 22, 1903. His Life, &c, by his son, was published in 1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)