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Once In Royal David's City
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Author Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander's bio information April , 1818 - October 12, 1895 Born: Early April 1818, Redcross, County Wicklow, Ireland. Died: October 12, 1895, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Buried: City Cemetery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Alexander’s husband was William Alexander, bishop of Derry and Raphoe, and later the Anglican primate for Ireland. Cecil and her sister founded a school for the deaf, and she set up the Girls’ Friendly Society in Londonderry. Cecil Alexander wrote about 400 hymns in her lifetime. Her works include: Verses from the Holy Scriptures, 1846 Hymns for Little Children, 1848 Narrative Hymns for Village Schools, 1853 Poems on Subjects in the Old Testament, 1854 & 1857 Hymns Descriptive and Devotional, 1858 The Legend of the Golden Prayer, 1859 Hymns All Things Bright and Beautiful Angels Stand Around Thy Throne, The Dear Lord, This Thy Servant’s Day Do No Sinful Action Christ Has Ascended Up Again Eternal Gates Lift Up Their Heads, The The Golden Gates Are Lifted Up Every Morning the Red Sun For All Thy Saints, a Noble Throng Forgive Them, O My Father Forsaken Once, and Thrice Denied From Out the Cloud of Amber Light He Is Coming, He Is Coming He Is Risen His Are the Thousand Sparkling Rills How Good Is the Almighty God In Nazareth in Olden Times In the Rich Man’s Garden It Was Early in the Morning Jesus Calls Us O Love Most Patient, Give Me Grace Once in Royal David’s City Roseate Hues of Early Dawn, The Saints of God Are Holy Men, The Saw You Never, in the Twilight? So Be It, Lord; the Prayers are Prayed Souls in Death and Darkness Lying Spirit of God, That Moved of Old St. Patrick’s Breastplate Still Bright and Blue Doth Jordan Flow There Is a Green Hill Far Away There Is One Way Up in Heaven We Are But Little Children Weak O Lord, the Holy Innocents We Are Little Christian Children We Were Washed in Holy Water When Christ Came Down on Earth of Old O Son of God, in Glory Crowned When of Old the Jewish Mothers When Wounded Sore the Stricken Heart Within the Churchyard, Side by Side Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/a/l/e/alexander_cfh.html
Composer Henry John Gauntlett Henry John Gauntlett's bio information 1805 - 1876 Sorry, we have no information for this composer
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.
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Lyrics Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a mother laid her Baby, In a manger for His bed; Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little Child. He came down to earth from heaven Who is God and Lord of all, And His shelter was a stable, And His cradle was a stall; With the poor, and mean, and lowly, Lived on earth our Savior holy. And, through all His wondrous childhood, He would honor and obey, Love and watch the lowly maiden In whose gentle arms He lay; Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. And our eyes at last shall see Him, Through His own redeeming love; For that Child so dear and gentle Is our Lord in heav'n above; And He leads His children on To the place where He is gone. Not in that poor lowly stable, With the oxen standing by, We shall see Him: but in heaven, Set at God's right hand on high; When like stars His chidren crowned, All in white shall wait around.

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