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Ho! Reapers Of Life's Harvest
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Author Isaac Baker Woodbury Isaac Baker Woodbury's bio information October 23, 1819 - October 26, 1858 Born: October 23, 1819, Beverly, Massachusetts. Died: October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina. Buried: Union Cemetery, Norwalk, Connecticut. Woodbury studied with Lowell Mason in Boston, Massachusetts. He had further studies in Paris and London in the late 1830’s. After returning to Boston, he taught music, played the organ, and conducted choral groups. He edited World of Music and the American Monthly Musical Review. In 1849 he moved to New York. After contracting tuberculosis, he traveled in the Mediterranean and Florida. His works include oratorios, cantatas, chorus, flees, piano pieces, teaching pieces, and: * Elements of Musical Composition, 1844 (later reissued as Self-Instructor in Musical Composition) * Dulcimer; or, New York Collection of Sacred Music, 1850 and later * Liber Musicus, 1851 * Cythara, 1854 * The Casket (Charleston, South Carolina: 1855) * New Lute of Zion, 1856 Sources * Nutter, p. 469 * Randel, p. 995 Hymns 1. Ho, Reapers of Life’s Harvest Music 1. Chopin 2. Eucharist 3. Lake Enon 4. Nearer Home 5. Rakem 6. Selena 7. Siloam 8. Sinner Forgiven, A 9. Speed Away 10. Talmar 11. Woodbury Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/w/o/woodbury_ib.html
Composer Isaac Baker Woodbury Isaac Baker Woodbury's bio information October 23, 1819 - October 26, 1858 Born: October 23, 1819, Beverly, Massachusetts. Died: October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina. Buried: Union Cemetery, Norwalk, Connecticut. Woodbury studied with Lowell Mason in Boston, Massachusetts. He had further studies in Paris and London in the late 1830’s. After returning to Boston, he taught music, played the organ, and conducted choral groups. He edited World of Music and the American Monthly Musical Review. In 1849 he moved to New York. After contracting tuberculosis, he traveled in the Mediterranean and Florida. His works include oratorios, cantatas, chorus, flees, piano pieces, teaching pieces, and: * Elements of Musical Composition, 1844 (later reissued as Self-Instructor in Musical Composition) * Dulcimer; or, New York Collection of Sacred Music, 1850 and later * Liber Musicus, 1851 * Cythara, 1854 * The Casket (Charleston, South Carolina: 1855) * New Lute of Zion, 1856 Sources * Nutter, p. 469 * Randel, p. 995 Hymns 1. Ho, Reapers of Life’s Harvest Music 1. Chopin 2. Eucharist 3. Lake Enon 4. Nearer Home 5. Rakem 6. Selena 7. Siloam 8. Sinner Forgiven, A 9. Speed Away 10. Talmar 11. Woodbury Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/w/o/woodbury_ib.html
Arranger A. H. M. A. H. M.'s bio information June 27, 1960 - Born in the Van Wert Ohio Hospital on June 27, 1960, Alvin (Bud) Herman Manz, Jr. was the 3rd of 4 sons born to Betty Manz and firstborn to her second husband, Alvin. His older siblings, John Paul Rose, Jr. (1956) and Joseph Henry Rose (1957), were born to John Paul Rose. In 1958, John Sr. passed away leaving Betty with 2 little boys to care for until she met Alvin Manz and got married to him on October 3, 1959. Bud's younger sibling, Robert James Manz, Sr., was born on August 23, 1961. Bud never married, instead lives with his father just south of Defiance Ohio.
Lyrics Ho! reapers of life's harvest, Why sit with rusted blade, Until the night draws 'round thee, And day begins to fade? Why stand ye idle, waiting For reapers more to come? The golden morn is passing, Why sit ye idle, dumb? Thrust in your sharpened sickle, And gather in the grain; The night is fast approaching, And soon will come again; The Master calls for reapers, And shall He call in vain? Shall sheaves lie there ungathered, And waste upon the plain? Come down from hill and mountain In morning's ruddy glow Nor wait until the dial Points to the noon below; And come with stronger sinew, Nor faint in heat or cold, And pause not till the evening Draws 'round its wealth of gold! Mount up the heights of wisdom, And crush each error low; Keep back no word of knowledge That human hearts should know; Be faithful to thy mission In service to the Lord, And, then, a golden chaplet Shall be thy just reward!

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