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SPRINGHILL

Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. William F. Hurndall Incipit: 12432 11716 51712 Used With Text: Hear our pray'r, O heav'nly Father

Hear our pray'r, O heav'nly Father

Author: Harriet Parr Appears in 77 hymnals Used With Tune: SPRINGHILL

Christian children must be holy

Appears in 24 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Christian children must be holy, Serving God from day to day; Never is the time too early For a Christian to obey. 2 Jesus taught us in His childhood; Only eight short days He saw Ere He suffered circumcision And obeyed His Father's law. 3 He who is our great Example, Let no moment run to loss; Not one precious hour He wasted From the cradle to the Cross. 4 Soon He sorrowed, soon He suffered; We must meek and gentle be, Little pain and childish trial Ever bearing patiently 5 Soon He showed a Son's obedience; We must early learn to do Not our own will, but our Father's, And be found obedient too. Amen. Topics: Our Lord Jesus Christ His Childhood Used With Tune: SPRINGHILL

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Hear our pray'r, O heav'nly Father

Author: Harriet Parr Hymnal: Hymns of the Centuries #11 (1913) Languages: English Tune Title: SPRINGHILL

Hear our pray'r, O heav'nly Father

Author: Harriett Parr Hymnal: Gloria #11 (1916) Languages: English Tune Title: SPRINGHILL

Hear my prayer, O Heavenly Father

Author: Harriet Parr (1828- ) Hymnal: Plymouth Sunday-School Hymnal #17 (1892) Languages: English Tune Title: SPRINGHILL

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Harriet Parr

1828 - 1900 Person Name: H. Parr Author of "Hear our pray'r, O Heav'nly Father" in The Church Hymnal Pseudonym: Holme Lee Parr, Harriet, was born at York in 1828, and has published several works under the nom de plume of "Holme Lee," including Maude Talbot, 1854; Sylvan Holt’s Daughter, 1858; Warp and Woof, 1861; Mr. Wynyard's Ward, 1867; and several other works of fiction. Miss Parr is known to hymnology by one hymn only, viz.:— Hear my [our] prayer, 0 heavenly Father. Evening. This beautiful and pathetic hymn appeared in her story The Wreck of the Golden Mary, which was the Christmas number of Charles Dickens's Household Words, 1856. The way in which the hymn is introduced into the story has been often told, and is worth repeating. The story sets forth how the ship Golden Mary, on her voyage to California, struck on an iceberg, and the passengers, taking to the boats, suffered privations for several days. To beguile the time they repeated stories. One of them, Dick Tarrant, a wild youth, relates some of his experiences, in which he says:— “What can it be that brings all these old things over my mind? There's a child's hymn I and Tom used to say at my mother's knee, when we were little ones, keeps running through my thoughts. It's the stars, may be; there was a little window by my bed that I used to watch them at, a window in my room at home in Cheshire; and if I were ever afraid, as boys will be after reading a good ghost story, I would keep on saying it till I fell asleep." ”That was a good mother of yours, Dick; could you say that hymn now, do you think ? Some of us might like to hear it." "It is as clear in my mind at this minute as if my mother was here listening to me," said Dick. And he repeated " 'Hear my prayer, O Heavenly Father, Ere we lay us down to sleep,' " &c. Through the instrumentality of Dr. Allon it was included in the New Congregational Hymn Book, 1859, No. 945, in 5 st. of 4 1. Since then it has reappeared in numerous collections in Great Britain and America. In some hymn-books, as in Thring's Collection, 1882, it begins, "Hear our prayer, O heavenly Father," and a doxology is added. Instead of the doxology, the Rev. W. J. Hall added the following lines (written in 1873). "Home of rest and peace unending, Whither turns my longing heart, Home from whence thro' all the ages Never more shall I depart." This addition was given in the New Mitre Hymnal, 1875. In the Parish Hymn Book, 1863 and 1875, it is a Morning hymn, and begins:— "Praise to Thee, Whose hosts have watched us Through the helpless hours of sleep," &c. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

W. F. Hurndall

1830 - 1888 Composer of "SPRINGHILL" in The Church Hymnal William Flavell Hurndall was born July 10, 1830 at Basingstoke, England. He was the son of a minister. He was educated at Bonn University, Freidrich Wilhelms University Berlin, Glasgow University and Heidelberg University. He worked as a Congregational minister and later as headmaster. He composed over 150 hymn tunes. He died August 24, 1888 at Scarborough. Dianne Shapiro, from email sent to Hymnary by Martin Thompson