He Hides Within the Lily

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He hides within the lily

Author: William Channing Gannett (1873)
Published in 32 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Majestic Praise (Brass Solos for Worship…

Instrumental
	Majestic Praise (Brass Solos for Worship…

Handbells
	SEVENTEEN HANDBELL PROCESSIONS

Author: William Channing Gannett

Gannett, William Channing, M.A., s. of Dr. Ezra Stiles Gannett, was b. at Boston, March 13, 1840, and educated at Harvard College, 1860, and the Divinity School, Cambridge. Entered the Unitarian Ministry in 1868, and after filling several pastorates he became Pastor of the Unitarian Church at Rochester, N.Y., 1889. Mr. Gannett's hymns, mainly written for special occasions, were included in great part in The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems, Boston, 1st Series 1885,2nd Series 1894, the combined production of F. L. Hosmer (q.v.) and himself. Of Mr. Gannett's hymns the following are in common use:— 1. Bring, 0 morn, thy music [God Everlasting.] Written in 1893, and printed in A Chorus of Faith, being an account and resume of the Parli… Go to person page >

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First Line:	He hides within the lily
Title:	He Hides Within the Lily
Author:	William Channing Gannett (1873)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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ST. ANSELM (Barnby)

ALFORD (Dykes)

MUNICH (Mendelssohn)

MUNICH has a colorful history. Traces of it run as far back as 1593 in the Dresden, Germany, Gesangbuch in conjunction with the text 'Wir Christenleut." A version from a Meiningen Gesangbuch (1693) is still used in Lutheranism for "O Gott, du frommer Gott." Felix Mendelssohn's adaptation of that tun…

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