Bellefonte, Pa., June 10 1927.
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THE ORIGIN OF TEN
FAMOUS HYMNS.
No part of religious worship trans-
cends the borders of creed, caste and
prejudice as does the familiar hymn.
When once it is written, its scope
gradually widens, being taken up by
one or all denominations, and thus the
hymn soon becomes a standard
‘throughout the nation and then the
world.
Christian chants have so appealed
to he Oriental races that the name of
Buddha has been substituted for that
of Jesus and the chants borrowed
bodily for worship far removed from
Christianity.
More than a half million hymns
have been written in English and pos-
sibly as many more in German, yet
the average denominational hymn
book contains less than a thousand.
Of the many world-famous hymns,
ten have been written in Philadelphia,
Pa.
There is hardly a part of the world
to which the hymn,
“He leadeth me, O blessed thought!
0, words with heavenly comfort
fraught!’ has not penetrated and there
are thousands of tongues which can
repeat its words by heart. “He Lead-
eth Me” was written by the Rev. Dr.
Joseph H. Gilmore, a son of the Gov-
ernor of New Hampshire, in the home
of Deacon Wattson, immediately after
preaching in the First Baptist Church
on the 26th day of March, 1862.
Dr. Gilmore, writing his own ac-
count of the origin of the hymn, says:
“As a young man who recently had
been graduated from Brown Univer-
sity and Newton Theological Institu-
tion, I was supplying for a couple of
Sundays the pulpit of the First Bap-
tist Church in Philadelphia. At the
mid-week service, on the 26th of
March, 1862, I set out to give the peo-
ple an exposition of the 23rd Psalm,
which I had given before on three or
four different occasions. This time,
however, I did not get further than
the words, ‘He Leadeth Me.’ These
words took hold of me as they had
never done before, and I saw in them
a significance and wondrous beauty
of which I had never dreamed.
“It was the darkest hour of the
War of the Rebellion. I did not re-
fer to that fact—that is, I don’t think | Y
1 did—but it may subconsciously have
led me to realize that God’s leader-
ship is the ore significant fact in hu-
man experience, that it makes no dif-
ference how we are led, so long as we
are sure God is leading us. At the
close of the meeting a few of us re-
mained in the parlor of my host, the
good Deacon Wattson, who resided
next door to the Church, and kept on
talking about the thought which I had
emphasized, and then and there, on a
blank page from the brief from which
I had intended to speak, I penciled
the hymn, handed it to my wife and
thought no more about it. It occur-
red to her months afterwards to send
the hymn to the “Watchman and Re-
flector,” a paper published in Boston,
where it was first printed. In that
paper, it attracted the attention of
William B. Bradbury who slightly
modified the refrain and set the hymn
to music which had done so much to
promote its popularity. As I wrote
the hymn, the refrain consisted of
only two lines.
“1 did not know until 1865 that my
hymn had been set to music. I went
to Rochester to preach as a candidate
before the Second Baptist Church.
Going into their chapel on the day I
reached the city, I took up a hymnal
to see what they sang and opened it
at my own hymn, ‘He Leadeth Me.” 1
accepted it as an indication of divine
guidance and have no doubt I was
right. One of my former students
writes me that it is the favorite hymn
of the Japanese Christians. The hymn
was actually sung in a Chinese court
of justice by a Chinaman who had
never seen a white missionary, to
show the presiding justice what a
Christian hymn was like.”
Many hymns have been written in
Philadelphia since the days when Pius
Kelpiue and Henry Bernard Kaster
brought the first religious singing to
the Quaker town. These two men
were the first hymn composers of the
city, but their work has been neglect-
ed. It has been kept from oblivion,
however, by the painstaking efforts of
Dr. Louis F. Benson, of Philadelphia,
whose library of nearly 10,000 vol-
umes on Hymnology is said to be un-
surpassed and priceless. Dr. Edward
J. Ninde, an author on Hymnology,
has said Dr. Benson is “the leading
American hymnologist.”
Dr. Benson, author of several
hymns, in particular that well known
one,
“The light of God is falling
Upon life’s common way,”
is a native of Philadelphia and a
graduate of the University of Penn-
sylvania. He was a pastor of various
Churches and had charge of the publi-
cation of the Presbyterian Hymnal in
1895 and its revision in 1911. In his
opinion, ten hymns that have the
widest recognition, had their origin
in Philadelphia.
Of these, the hymn, “0 little town
of Bethlehem,” is perhaps the best
known. It was written in an ill-light-
ed, third-story back room in a squalid
dwelling on Walnut street. Philips
Brooks, later famous Boston cleric
and bishop, but at that time rector of
Holy Trinity, wrote these immortal
words, after a visit to Judea. Lewis
H. Redner, the organist, put the
words to music. Brooks as a boy, was
urged to memorize the words of a
hymn each week and it is said that
when he entered Harvard he could re-
peat the stanzas of more than 200
hymns. The lively appreciation of
music and verse, combined with his
great love of children and a ready
genius, conspired to produce one of
the greatest of Christmas carols.
When Redner was asked by Brooks
to write the music, inspiration failed,
So Redner writes: “I was aroused
from sleep in the night (Christmas
Eve) hearing an angelic strain whis-
pering in my ear and seizing a piece
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{ble clef as we have it now.”
mangled so badly that he died a few
of music paper, 1 jotted down the tre-’
When
it was first published, the words con-
tained the following stanza, which
was later dropped:
“Where children pure and happy
Pray to the Blessed Child;
Where misery cries out to Thee,
Son of the undefiled;
Where Charity stands watching
And Faith holds wide the door,
The dark night waits, the glory
breaks, :
And Christmas comes once more.”
Inspiration plays a prominent part
in the origin of hymns, and that is
brought out most forcibly in the ac-
count of the hymn, “Stand Up, Stand
Up For Jesus,” which was written
by Dr. George Duffield of the Pres-
byterian Church of the Northern
Liberties in 1858. Dudley A. Tyng
had opposed slavery so vigorously
that he had left his charge in the
Church of the Epiphany and formed
the Church of the covenant, holding at
the same time evangelical meetings.
Many other ministers reported and
among them was Duffield.
In April, 1858, Tyng, while examin-
ing some corn grinding machinery,
was caught in the cogs and his arm
days later. His parting message to
his fellow clergymen was, “Tell them,
Let us all stand up for Jesus!” Con-
sumed by an evangelistic spirit, Duf-
field wrote the famous verses which
inspired the soldiers of the Civil War.
Quite in contrast with the men who
are famed through writing one hymn
or so, is the record of Rev. Robert
Lowery, who was born in Philadelphia
in 1826. He wrote, “I need thee every
hour.” Another hymn of his is the
familiar, “Where Is My Wandering
Boy To-Nignt?” Lowery wrote popu-
lar hymns. He lived to see more than
a million and a half copies of his
hymn books circulated, and he reap-
ed a fortune.
One of Philadelphia’s earliest writ-
ers was Wiliam Agustus Muhlenberg,
great-grandson of the founder of the
Lutheran Church in America. He was
born in the Quaker City in 1797, and
in 1820 he entered the ministry at
Lancaster, Pa. Four years later he
wrote in a lady’s album, “I Would
Not Live Always,” a very melancholy
verse which plagued him for the rest
of his life so that he grew to hate it.
There are those who see a blighted
romance in the prompting of the
verse, but Muhlenberg always hotly
denied it—yet he died a bachelor. His
most important work was the found-
ing Tl St. Luke’s Hospital in New
ork.
In 1815, a decrepit clockmaker
wandered into Philadelphia from Bos-
ton. He was a young man of 19, who
had managed to get only six months
schooling, and yet he felt the urge to
write. Richard Bache, editor of
“Franklin’s Gazette,” humored him in
1818, a poem appeared, which began:
“There is an hour of peaceful rest
To mourning wanderers given.”
The author was William Bingham
Tappen, and his poem was copied
widely even in Europe. He wrote
many hymns, made Philadelphia his
home, and died in 1849. 2
“Edwin Henry Nevin, kin to the not-
ed composer of “The Rosary,” was a
minister in the First Reformed
Church of Philadelphia. To him is
credited the hymn, “Always With Us,
Always With Us.”
Daniel March, who lived in the
Quaker City, wrote only one hymn,
but it was enough to keep his name
from being forgotten:
“Hark the voice of Jesus calling,
Who will go and work today ?”
It was written before an address to
the Christian Association because the
could not find 2a hymn suitable to his
text.
: In 1878 his hymn was incorporated
in the Methodist Hymnal and can now
be found in most of the standard
works. March was born in 1816 and
died in 1909.
_ Last on the list of the most prom-
inent hymns written by Philadel-
phians, but not necessarily the least,
is “OQ sion, Haste, Thy Mission High
Fulfilling,” which came from the pen
some of the lines in other hymns used
of Mary Thomson, an Englishwoman,
the wife of John Thomson, librarian
of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
According to her statement, the hymn
was finished in 1871 and not in 1891,
as some hymnals say. She added
some of the stanzas and changed
in the Episcopal Hymnal.—Hunting-
don Reformatory.
Dogs Running Loose May be Killed.
Dogs running at large between sun
set and sunrise unaccompanied may
be killed by police officers under the
terms of a bill of Senator Weingart-
ner, Lawrence, signed by Gov. Fisher.
The measure makes changes to the
dog law of 1921.
_ Another change made in the law
is that any unlicensed dog that en-
ters any field, or any dog entering a
field or enclosure where live stock
and poultry are confined, shall con-
stitute a private nuisance, and the
animal may be killed without liabil-
ity for the killing.
Any person attacked by a dog may
make complaint before a magistrate
charging the owner with harboring a
vicious dog. If the owner fails to ap-
pear at the hearing he shall be or-
dered to keep his animal securely con-
fined. And such dog found running
at large after an order has been is-
sued can be shot without damage to
its owner. The amendments to the
dog law are effective January 1, 1928.
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Taxes Must Be Paid.
For the benefit of those ignorant of
the law in regards to payment of tax-
es we print the following: :
After the tax collector has given all
notices required and if any person
shall neglect or refuse to make pay-
ment of the amount due him, it shall
be the duty of said collector to
levy such amounts by distress, and
if such sales sufficient to satisfy the
same with costs, cannot be found, the
collector is authorized to take. the
body of such delinquent and convey
him to the jail of the proper county,
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there to remain until such tax, to-
gether with the costs, shall be paid
or until he is discharged by due course |
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11—S8cheme
18—Behold!
14—You and me
1}—Note of scale
16—Part of to be
18—Musical instrument
20—An egg dish
23—To exist
24—Established price
26—Poker player's stake
26—MNgyptian sun god
28—Preposition
29—Indefinite article
80—Commercial announcement
81—To eject
35—Burden 89—That thing
40—Specimen 42—To leave
§4—This person 45—Preposition
46—For example (abbr.)
47—Note of scale
48—Horses (slang)
50—A selling
$8—Maternal parent
§8—Preposition
t4—Saltpeter 58—Pedal digit
8—Part of “to be”
4—Kind of oyster
b—Dignified
6—Thus
8—Note of scale
9—Opening into a room
10—Anglo-Saxon servant
11—Malayan swift salling oanee
12—Egyptian river
18—Long Island (abbr.)
17—Point of compass
18—Sells
19—Note of scale
21—And (Fr.)
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83—A rallying cry
84—Number under eleven (pl.)
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88—S8ecure
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b1—Behold! 55—That thing
56—Preposition 87—Note of soale
43—Sun god
Solution will appear in mext issue.
First American Flags Displayed in
Warfare.
It is perhaps little known that the
first American flag displayed “at sea”
was raised by Colonel Wynkoop, coni-
mander of he Royal Savage, one of
Benedict Arnold’s little fleet in Lake
Champlain, in 1776. This flag was a
replica of the first striped flag hoisted
over Washington’s headquarters at
Cambridge. It consisted of thirteen
alternate red and white stripes in the
field and retained the colors of Eng-
land, the united crosses of St. George
and St. Andrew on a blue ground, in
the canton. This flag was known in
England as “The Rebellious Stripes.”
“A picturesque incident is told of
the first Stars and Stripes used in a
military engagement,” said Mr. Ames,
foremost flag manufacturer in the
country. “The Revolutionary flag of
thirteen stripes with a circle of thir-
teen stars was adopted by the Conti-
nental congress on June 14, 1777, but
the statute was not officially promul-
gated until the third of the following
September. Meanwhile a copy of an
Albany newspaper describing the flag
had fallen under the eye of a Conti-
nental officer from Massachusetts on
his way with reinforcements to Fort
Schuyler, formerly Fort Stanwix,
where the city of Rome, N. Y., now
stands. .
“He arrived at 5 p. m. on August
2, and very opportunely, too, as it
turner out. For the British attack-
ed the fort the following morning,
which was Sunday. Before the end
of the day the garrison had run up
the first American battle flag. White
stripes from shirts and hospital
bandages alternated with red stripes
made from the scarlet petticoat of a
soldier’s wife. A blue canton was im-
provised from the military coat of one
Capt. Abraham Swartot, who, a year
later, wrote to the commander of the
fort requesting ‘an order on the com-
sissary to supply me, as promised,
with eight yards of broadcloth in lieu
of my blue coat which was used for
colors at Fort Schuyler. "—Every-
body’s Magazine,
New Anesthetic Used in Tests in Ger-
many.
Berlin.—The German medical world
is watching experiments with a new
anestnetic evolved in the laboratories
of the German Dyestuffs federation,
for which advantages over ether or
chloroform are claimed.
The chemical composition of the
preparation, known as E 107, is with-
held for the time being. But its man-
ner of working and effects upon the
patient, both during the period of its
potency and afterward, have been de-
scribed by Prof. Ernst Unger, who
with other prominent German physi-
cians and surgeons has used it in nu-
merous clinics after a series of ex-
periments upon animals.
The anesthetic, introduced into the
intestine, causes the patient to lose
consciousness within five minutes and
come fully under the influence after
seven or eight minutes have elapsed.
Professor Unger asserted in a lecture.
The after-effects, in a majority of
cases, are declared to be nil, there
being no stomach sickness, while the
system absorbs -the anesthetic so
quickly that within an hour no traces
are left.
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Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle.
June 8 to 14 is “Flag Week.”
In an official proclamation, Govern-
or Fisher called upon citizens of the
Commonwealth to observe Flag Week,
June 8 to 14.
“The flag has become more and
more the symbol of a mighty nation,”
he said. “Carried to the utmost
parts of the earth, it has been thrown
to the breezes as proclaiming liberty.
There is a special significance at-
tached to the flag for Pennsylvania
on this, the Sesqui-Centennial of its
adoption. Betsy Ross designated the
flag at her home in Philadelphia. It
was officially adopted by Congress on
September 3, 1777, and again it re-
ceived its baptism of blood in Pennsyl-
vania, at the Battle Brandywine, just
eight days later.
“I urge upon my fellow-citizens
that as the flag is unfurled over home
and school and public places, we give
new thought to all that it means to
us; that we remember with gratitude
and reverence those whose sacrifices
have preserved for us the blessings
of a united and prosperous nation;
and that we pledge ourselves to keep
that flag and what it represents safe
from outward attack and inward de-
cay.
“Now therefore, I, John S. Fisher,
Governor of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, do unite with the Gov-
ernors of other States, in proclaiming
Flag week, June 8 to 14, and I call
upon all patriotic citizens and organ-
izations of this State to give it that
observance which the occasion de-
serves,”
Notice to Sportsmen’s Associations:
There seems to be some misunder-
standing among the sportsmen of the
State concerning the action of the
Board of Game Commissioners at its
April meeting, in reference to a state-
wide open doe season during the com-
ing November. The board, in its ef-
forts to relieve the congested condi-
tion, tentatively offered the plan, but
no final decision was reached. The
board will again meet in July when
some method will be decided upon,
for it is hoped that we may overcome
the objectionable conditions in the
various counties of the State.
The sportsmen will be notified im-
mediately after the meeting of just
what action is taken and it is hoped
that the decision will be upheld by all
who have the ultimate welfare of the
wild life of Pennsylvania at heart.
signed
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