Around Thy table, holy Lord, In fellowship we meet

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Around Thy table, holy Lord, In fellowship we meet

Author (vs. 2-3): Thomas Cotterill; Author: Mary Peters
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Author (vs. 2-3): Thomas Cotterill

Thomas Cotterill (b. Cannock, Staffordshire, England, 1779; d. Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 1823) studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, England, and became an Anglican clergyman. A central figure in the dispute about the propriety of singing hymns, Cotterill published a popular collection of hymns (including many of his own as well as alterations of other hymns), Selection of Psalms and Hymns in 1810. But when he tried to introduce a later edition of this book in Sheffield in 1819, his congregation protested. Many believed strongly that the Church of England should maintain its tradition of exclusive psalm singing. In a church court the Archbishop of York and Cotterill reached a compromise: the later edition of Selection was withdrawn… Go to person page >

Author: Mary Peters

Peters, Mary, née Bowly, daughter of Richard Bowly, of Cirencester, was born in 1813, and subsequently married to the Rev. John McWilliam Peters, sometime Rector of Quennington, Gloucestershire, and died at Clifton, July 29, 1856. Her prose work, The World’s History from the Creation to the Accession of Queen Victoria, was published in seven volumes. Several of her hymns were contributed to the Plymouth Brethren's Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, London, D. Walther, 1842. These with others, 58 in all, were published by Nisbet & Co., London, 1847, as Hymns intended to help the Communion of Saints. Dr. Walker introduced several from these collections into his Cheltenham Psalms & Hymns, 1855. Many of these have been repeated in Snepp's… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Around Thy table, holy Lord, In fellowship we meet
Author (vs. 2-3):	Thomas Cotterill
Author:	Mary Peters
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Around Thy table, Holy Lord. Mary Peters, née Bowly. [Holy Communion.] First published in Psalms & Hymns, London, Walther, 1842, pt. i. No. 253, in 7 stanza of 4 1. In 1847, it was included, with alterations by Mrs. Peters, in her Hymns intended to help the Communion of Saints, No. 39. The form in common use, as in Dr. Walker's Cheltenham Collection and others, is that of 1842. In the American Baptist Praise Book, N. Y., 1871, No. 795, the Service of Song for Baptist Churches, Boston, 1871, No. 837, and others, there is a cento composed of the opening stanza of this hymn, together with stanzas v. and vi., from T. Cotterill's "Bless'd with the presence of their God," slightly altered. [William T. Brooke] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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EVAN (Havergal)

This tune [EVAN], "the popularity of which in Scotland, America, and the Colonies is quite unprecedented" (Tonic Sol Fa Reporter, May 15, 1870), consists of the 1st, 2nd, 7th, and 8th strains of "O Thou dread Power" a sacred song by the Rev. W.H. Havergal, the melody being unaltered. EVAN II is the…

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