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Be Glad to Serve

Author: Augusta Larned Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Little hands, be free in giving Refrain First Line: Little hands, little hands

[Little hands, be free in giving]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Solomon W. Straub Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11132 22433 35432 Used With Text: Be Glad To Serve

[Little hands, be free in giving]

Appears in 13 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. B. Saxton Incipit: 33336 53122 22543 Used With Text: Children's Mite

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Author: Augusta Larned Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #11058 First Line: Little hands, be free in giving Refrain First Line: Little hands, little hands Lyrics: 1 Little hands, be free in giving; Little hearts, be glad to serve: Each unselfish act of living God fails never to observe. Refrain: Little hands, little hands, Be free in giving! Little hearts, little hearts, Be glad to serve, Little hands, little hands, Be free in giving! Little hearts, little hearts, Be glad to serve. 2 Give not only gold and treasure, Give your sympathy and care, Love that knew not stint or measure Jesus scattered everywhere. [Refrain] 3 Angels garner up in Heaven Every gentle word and deed; All the joy your lives have given To God’s little ones in need. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Little hands, be free in giving]

Be Glad to Serve

Author: Augusta Larned Hymnal: Bright Light #36 (1893) First Line: Little hands, be free in giving Refrain First Line: Little hands, little hands Languages: English Tune Title: [Little hands, be free in giving]

Children's Mite

Author: Augusta Larned Hymnal: Sunday School Service Book and Hymnal #175 (1885) First Line: Little hands, be free in giving Languages: English Tune Title: [Little hands, be free in giving]

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S. W. Straub

1842 - 1899 Person Name: Solomon W. Straub Composer of "[Little hands, be free in giving]" in The Cyber Hymnal Solomon.W Straub Solomon was the brother of Maria Straub. His father Joseph was a farmer. His parents, who were of German descent. From Hymnary user, via email

Augusta Larned

1835 - 1924 Author of "Children's Mite" in Sunday School Service Book and Hymnal Larned, Augusta. (Rutland, New York, April 16, 1835--1924). Author of six volumes of stories for children and of one on Greek mythology and another on Norse mythology. Contributor to various periodicals and for 20 years correspondent and editorial writer with The Christian Register, Boston. She published in 1895 a book of poems entitled In the Woods and Fields from which was taken her hymn on peace of mind, "In quiet hours the tranquil soul," for inclusion in the Isles of Shoals Hymn-Book, 1908; The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914; and Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives ===================================== Larned, Augusta, author, born in Rutland, Jefferson County, New York, 16 April, 1835. She was educated at Watertown and Potsdam seminaries and the Spingler institute, New York, and settled in that city as a newspaper correspondent and a contributor of sketches, stories, and poems to periodicals. In 1870 she edited "The Revolution," a woman's-rights newspaper. She is the author of six volumes of "Home Stories" (New York, 1872-'8) that were originally published in magazines and newspapers; "Talks with Girls" (1873); "Old Tales Retold from Grecian Mythology" (1875); "The Norse Grandmother, Tales from the Eddas" (1880); and "Village Photographs" (1887). --James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, (Eds.). (1887). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (Vol. 3). New York: D. Appleton & Co.