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My weary soul a rest hath found

Author: Horace L. Hastings Appears in 7 hymnals

[My weary soul a rest hath found]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. C. Avis Incipit: 55651 17615 13125 Used With Text: My weary soul a rest hath found

[My weary soul a rest hath found]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hubert P. Main Used With Text: O Rock of Ages

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My Weary Soul a Rest Hath Found

Author: H. L. Hastings Hymnal: Honey Out of the Rock #129 (1892) Refrain First Line: O Rock of Ages, cleft for me Scripture: Isaiah 32:2 Languages: English Tune Title: [My weary soul a rest hath found]

My weary soul a rest hath found

Author: H. L. Hastings Hymnal: Sacred Melodies Nos.1 and 2 combined #141 (1886) Refrain First Line: O, Rock of Ages, cleft for me Languages: English Tune Title: [My weary soul a rest hath found]

O Rock of Ages

Author: H. L. Hastings Hymnal: The Male Chorus No. 1 #6 (1888) First Line: My weary soul a rest hath found Refrain First Line: O Rock of Ages, cleft for me Languages: English Tune Title: [My weary soul a rest hath found]

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Hubert P. Main

1839 - 1925 Composer of "[My weary soul a rest hath found]" in Male Chorus No. 2 Hubert Platt Main DD USA 1839-1925. Born at Ridgefield, CT, he attended singing school as a teenager. In 1854 he went to New York City and worked as an errand boy in a wallpaper house. The next year he became an errand boy in the Bristow & Morse Piano Company. He was an organist, choir leader, and compiled books of music. He also helped his father edit the “Lute Songbook” by Isaac Woodbury. In 1866 he married Olphelia Louise Degraff, and they had two sons: Lucius, and Hubert. In 1867 he filled a position at William B Bradbury’s publishing house. After Bradbury’s death in 1868 the Bigelow & Main Publishers were formed as its successor. He also worked with his father until his father’s death in 1873. Contributors to their efforts were Fanny Crosby, Ira Sankey, Wilbur Crafts, and others. In addition to publishing, Main wrote 1000+ pieces of music, including part song, singing school songs, Sunday school music, hymns, anthems, etc. He also arranged music and collected music books. He 1891 he sold his collection of over 3500 volumes to the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL, where they were known as the Main Library. Some of his major publications include: “Book of Praise for the Sunday school” (1875), “Little pilgrim songs” (1884), “Hymns of Praise” (`1884), “Gems of song for the Sunday school” (1901), “Quartettes for men’s voices: Sacred & social selections” (1913). In 1922 Hope Publishing Company acquired Bigelow & Main. He was an editor, author, compiler, and composer, as well as publisher. He died in Newark, NJ. John Perry

H. L. Hastings

1831 - 1899 Author of "My Weary Soul a Rest Hath Found" in Honey Out of the Rock Hastings, Horace Lorenzo, was born at Blandford, Mass., Nov. 26, 1831; commenced writing hymns, and preaching, in his 17th year, and laboured as an evangelist in various parts of the U. S. In 1866 he established The Christian, a monthly paper, in which many of his hymns have appeared, and in 1865 the Scriptural Tract Repository in Boston. He published Social Hymns, Original and Selected, Boston, 1865; Songs of Pilgrimage, a Hymnal for the Churches of Christ, Part i., 1880; and in August, 1886, the same completed, to tho extent of 1533 hymns, 450 of which are original and signed "H." The best known of these is "Shall we meet beyond the river," written in N. Y. city, 1858, and lately published as a leaflet in 14 stanzas of 8 lines. The text in Gospel Hymns and elsewhere consists of the 1st half of stanzas i., iv., xi. and ix. The Hastings Birthday Book, extracts from his prose writings, appeared 1886. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology