There Shall Be No Night There

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No need of the sun in that day

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: CONTRAST (German)
Published in 11 hymnals

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	EARLY AMERICAN FOLK HYMNS FOR ORGAN (A C…

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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First Line:	No need of the sun in that day
Title:	There Shall Be No Night There
Author:	Charles Wesley
Meter:	8.8.8.8 D
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Revelation 22:5
(hymns)

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No need of the sun in that day. Part of C. Wesley's “Away with our sorrow and fear," p. 104, ii.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Notes

No need of the sun in that day. Part of C. Wesley's “Away with our sorrow and fear," p. 104, ii.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Tune

CONTRAST (German)

The tune most commonly known as CONTRAST is a German folk tune. In American shape-note tradition the tune is known as GREEN FIELDS or GREENFIELDS. J. S. Bach quoted it in his "Peasant Cantata," but he did not compose it. It has also been misattributed to Maria DeFleury and to Lewis Edson. Edson wrot…

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