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Settings and composers for Mary Baker Eddy’s poems in the 1932 Christian Science Hymnal

“Christmas Morn”:

  • Hymn 23 (SERENITY) Albert F. Conant1
  • Hymn 24 (CHRISTMAS MORN) Albert F. Conant2
  • Hymn 25 (KINGTON) F. Llewellyn Edwards
  • Hymn 26 (DRANSFIELD) Gerald Thalben-Ball
  • Hymn 27 (INFINITAS) Percy Whitlock
  • Hymn 28 (SELWORTHY)E. Norman Greenwood

“Love”:

  • Hymn 30 (LOVE) Walter E. Young
  • Hymn 31 (VITA) Eaton Faning
  • Hymn 32 (GOTTLOB) Walter E. Young3

“Satisfied”:

  • Hymn 160 (GLOAMING) John Stainer
  • Hymn 161 (FORTITUDE) Walter E. Young
  • Hymn 162 (SATIS) Percy Whitlock

“Mother’s Evening Prayer”:

  • Hymn 207 (MORECAMBE) Frederick C. Atkinson4
  • 208 (BENEDICTION) Edward J. Hopkins
  • Hymn 209 (EXPECTATION) Andreas P. Berggreen
  • Hymn 210 (LIMPSFIELD) Andrew Freeman
  • Hymn 211 (PRESENCE) Percy Whitlock5
  • Hymn 212 (SONG 22) Orlando Gibbons6

“Christ My Refuge”:

  • Hymn 253 (PLEASANT STREET) William Lyman Johnson7
  • Hymn 254 (NORTON) Lyman Brackett8
  • Hymn 255 (REFUGE) Percy C. Buck
  • Hymn 256 (OLDOWN) Basil Harwood
  • Hymn 257 (OBLATION) Percy Whitlock

“Communion Hymn”:

  • Hymn 298 (COMMUNION) Lyman Brackett
  • Hymn 299 (SAVIOUR) Walter E. Young
  • Hymn 300 (LAUNDON) Gerald Thalben-Ball
  • Hymn 301 (FAITH) Gerald O’Connor-Morris
  • Hymn 302 (FREEDOM) Norman Greenwood

“‘Feed My Sheep’”:

  • Hymn 304 (GUIDANCE) Lyman Brackett
  • Hymn 305 (SHEPHERD) Albert F. Conant
  • Hymn 306 (CONCORD) William Lyman Johnson9
  • Hymn 307 (LLANFAIR) Arranged from Robert Williams (1817)
  • Hymn 308 (EGERTON) G. Thalben-Ball
  • Hymn 309 (BENEVOLENCE) E. Norman Greenwood10

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  1. Arranged from William V. Wallace.
  2. See Chapter 8.
  3. This was altered from Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale and arranged to fit Eddy’s 86.86.88 text.
  4. The end of first line was altered by Albert F. Conant at Eddy’s request.
  5. This was set in a kind of free form, without meter or barlines, something unique in this hymnal and harkening to the earlier era of “plainchant.”
  6. This setting entered the Hymnal after Eddy made a plea to have some of her poems set to music of the great composers (see Chapter 8).
  7. This was composed and inserted in 1905 at Eddy’s request.
  8. This was originally named EDDY.
  9. This was composed and inserted in 1905 at Eddy’s request.
  10. This was composed specifically for the 1932 Hymnal.