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John G. Adams

John G. Adams
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Short Name: John G. Adams
Full Name: Adams, John G. (Greenleaf), 1810-1887
Birth Year: 1810
Death Year: 1887

Adams, John Greenleaf. Co-editor with Dr. E. H. Chapin of the Universalist Hymns for Christian Devotion, 1846; and, alone, of the Gospel Psalmist, 1861. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1810. The collections named contain in each case 16 hymns by him. They are not, however, received outside his sect. The best are:—
1. Heaven is here, its hymns of gladness. [Peace.] Contributed to the Hymns for Christian Devotion, 1846, No. 419, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines.
2. God's angels! not only on high do they sing. [Ministry of Angels.] No. 830 in his Gospel Psalmist, 1861, and No. 240 in Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, (1907)


TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Texts by John G. Adams (26)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Bless, o bless, almighty FatherJ. G. Adams (Author)3
Brighter shines the gospel wayJohn G. Adams (Author)2
Childhood, bring thy free oblationJ. G. Adams (Author)1
Creation's sovereign LordJ. G. Adams (Author)English5
Death moves with victor's treadJohn G. Adams (Author)3
Father, let Thy benediction Rest upon us in this hourJ. G. A. (Author)English1
For homes of freedom in our landJohn G. Adams (Author)1
God of our fathers, at this holy hourJ. G. Adams (Author)1
God of our fathers, from whose hand Came all our lights and blessings downJ. G. Adams (Author)English2
God of the poor, whose listening earJohn G. Adams (Author)3
God's angels, not only on high do they singJohn G. Adams (Author)3
Heaven is here, where hymns of gladnessJohn Adams (Author)English42
Herald of the Lord's salvationJohn G. Adam (Author)2
Holy Father, from aboveJ. G. Adams (Author)1
How blest, amid all blessingJ. G. Adams (Author)2
Let there be light, So spake at firstJohn G. Adams (Author)1
Loud raise the notes of joyJ. G. Adams (Author)English6
Mid homes and shrines forsakenJ. G. Adams (Author)2
On this fair spot where nature paysJ. G. Adams (Author)3
Our Father, ever liviingJ. G. Adams (Author)3
Raise the adoring songJ. G. Adams (Author)3
Servants of our Master lowlyJ. G. Adams (Author)1
Sound the full chorus, let praises ascendJohn G. Adams (Author)2
Sovereign of worlds above! From thy blest throne of loveJ. G. Adams (Author)2
The temperance cause foreverJ. G. Adams (Author)2
Thou God of years and seasons, allJ. G. Adams (Author)3

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