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Saturday, 30 March 2013

Hymns 201 and 202 back stories

Hymnal Note for Hymn 201 (O do not bar your mind) gives an lovely story about its composer, Henry Gauntlett.  “His father, Vicar at Olney, promised the boy a farthing for every Psalm tune he would copy out; and within ten days he brought in a thousand!”

And Hymn 202 – same words as 412 (O Dreamer, leave thy dreams).  As a First Reader one finds that these words can be appropriate for most subjects.  Wonderful!  They are by Charles Parsons, and were printed in The Christian Science Journal for November, 1888, and in the first Christian Science Hymnal of 1892.
Joyce Voysey
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