Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 36 · British Voices of the Nineteenth Century · Page 56 in print
Sarah Flower Adams
Sarah Flower Adams wrote hymns that her sister Eliza Flower set to music for worship at Finsbury Chapel.
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The words
Bethany
Mason’s tune paired with Adams’s hymn.
Bethel
The biblical place named in Adams’s hymn.
Eliza Flower
Adams’s sister who set her hymns to music.
Essex
The county of Adams’s birthplace.
Fenelon
The French writer whose text Adams translated.
Finsbury
The London setting of the chapel using the sisters’ hymns.
Harlow
The town where Adams was born.
Horbury
Dykes’s tune paired with Adams’s hymn.
Jacob
The biblical traveler whose dream informs Adams’s hymn.
Martineau
The compiler who included Adams’s translation.
Propior Deo
Sullivan’s tune paired with Adams’s hymn.
Sarah Adams
The writer Sarah Flower Adams.
Unitarian
The church tradition of Adams’s congregation.
Vivia Perpetua
Adams’s dramatic poem published in 1841.
William Adams
Adams’s husband, the civil engineer William Bridges Adams.
Sources
- Nearer, My God, to TheeHymnary; Tiffany Shomsky, For Leaders, and the public-domain hymn text
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900: Adams, Sarah FlowerRichard Garnett, Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), public domain
- John Julian, A Dictionary of Hymnology (1907), public-domain historical source via HymnaryHymnary.org