Father, Whate'er of Earthly Bliss

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Ate, maka kiŋ towaṡte

Author: Louis F. Benson; Translator: William M. Robertson
Tune: NAOMI (Nägeli)
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Louis F. Benson

Benson, Louis FitzGerald, D.D., was born at Philadelphia, Penn., July 22, 1855, and educated at the University of Penn. He was admitted to the Bar in 1877, and practised until 1884. After a course of theological studies he was ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia North, in 1888. His pastorate of the Church of the Redeemer, Germantown, Phila., extended from his ordination in 1888 to 1894, when he resigned and devoted himself to literary and Church work at Philadelphia. He edited the series of Hymnals authorised for use by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., as follows:— (1) The Hymnal, Phila., 1895; (2) The Chapel Hymnal, 1898; and (3) The School Hymnal, 1899. Dr. Benson's hymnological writings are somewh… Go to person page >

Translator: William M. Robertson

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First Line:	Ate, maka kiŋ towaṡte
Title:	Father, Whate'er of Earthly Bliss
English Title:	O thou whose feet have climbed life's hill
Translator:	William M. Robertson
Author:	Louis F. Benson
Language:	Dakota
Publication Date:	1951
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1951.

Psalm 29:10
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NAOMI (Nägeli)

NAOMI was a melody that Lowell Mason (PHH 96) brought to the United States from Europe and arranged as a hymn tune; the arrangement was first published in the periodical Occasional Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1836). Some scholars have attributed the original melody to Johann G. Nageli (PHH 315), but there…

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