The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-07

part of the national hymnology
without regard TO creed.
My Faith Looks Up to Thee. one
of the most inspiring OF the hymns
of faith, was written by DR.. Ray
Palmer. native of Rhode Island, and
is perhaps one of tine most popular
hymns of American origin. DR..
Palmer wrote it when he was % years
old, Just out OF Yale and an instructor
in private school for young ladies
IN Fulton street, New York. He
copied il in a little book which he
maincd for two or three years, seen
by no one but himself. He had gained
some little reputation as song writer,
however, and one day DR.. Thomas
Hastings met him and asked him to
contribute TO "Hymn and Tune
Book. about TO he published. Palmer
showed him the hymn in the little
book, they walked into store and DR..
Hastings copied it. Lowell Mason
wrote the tune "Olivet,' TO which it
has been sung, and it became popular
the world over in very short time.
Ray Palmer sfterward entered the
ministry Of the Congregational church.
and lived many years.
blessed Assurance, Jesus is Nine. -
'' Rescue the PerIshing. and "Safe in
the Arms of Jesus are among the
popular hymns written by Fanny
Crosby. the blind singer Miss Crosby
became blind when but 6 years old. but
her songs and poems arc always of the
sunniest and cheeriest kind of rhymed
optimism She had the distinction in
1914 of being asked TO recite her own
verses before the Senate aud House
Of Representatives in Washington, the
only poet ever thus honorcd. Among
the men who heard her then were
John Quincy Adams. James Buchanan,
Andrew johnson. Jefferson Davis,
Hannibal Hamlin. Stephen A. Douglas,
Thomas Fl. Benton. Hamilton Fish and
Alexander H. Stephens.
the stirring revival hymns "Hold
the Fort and 'Pull for the Shore, -
which were popuiarized in the seven
ties and still continue To be sung IN
some parts of the country, were writ
ten by Philip Paul Bliss, the first of
the great singing evangelists. These
two songs were published IN ''Gospel
HYMNS a book of hymns and tunes
which went through several editions IN
n few years. and caused the rural
churches in all parts of the country to
forsake the old-fashioncd long and short
meter airs of the forefathers for newer
ones, some Of which approached dan
gerously near to Jigs. Bliss met trag.
ic death in a railroad wreck al Asia.
bula, Ohio, in 1876.
eyes, Well Gather at the River
was written bv Robert Lowry of Phil
adelphia. Stand Up for Jesus" is
from the pen of George Dutield of
PENNSYLVANIA, written as poem TO form
the percration of his funeral sermon
over Dudley Tying, Young preacher
whose diving words were, "'Tell them
TO stand up for Jesus, - Ninety and
Nine" was written by a Scotch woman,
but was set 10 music by Ira ID. Sapkey.
~ Need Thee Every Hour was writ,
fen by Mrs Annie Sherwood Hanks of
New York, State, Many other hymns
Of equal merit and wide popularity have
been contributed to sacred bymnology
by Americans.
The national hymn, MY Country
'Tis of Thee is naturally the center
of great patriotic interest. DR.. Sam
mel Francis Smith wrote il in Boston
10 fit tune he found IN n book of
German music He did not know at the
time that the air WIS the same as that
If "God Save the King. and of Ger
man and French songs perhaps even
oldor. He wrote the poem under q
i'unum il sung ii the FIRST time at a children 5
celebration Of the Fourth of July at
! Park street church in Boston in 1882.
| OF Inc great chorus OF children who
first sang america" one survives. lie
is Edward Everett Hale the venerable
! ciergvmau and author DR.. Hale was
10 Years old at thc time This counec.
ton with the birthday of our NATIONAL
HYMN is one Of the proudest recollcc-
! IONS of his active life. Samuel Francis
smith. who wrote the hymn, died IN
! 1898.
Said Henry Ward Bcccher: "Hvmps
are thc exponent Of the mncrmost plcty
nf tho church. They arc the lcwels
which the church has worn, formed into
amulcts more potent against sadness
and sorrow than the most famous charm