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[Just a drop of water from a summer show'r]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. S. Lorenz Incipit: 55456 71617 45676 Used With Text: Little Things

Author: Mrs. Ida Reed Smith Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Just a drop of water from a summer show'r Refrain First Line: Little things have wondrous pow'r Topics: Children Used With Tune: [Just a drop of water from a summer show'r]

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Little Things

Author: Mrs. Ida Reed Smith Hymnal: The Master's Call #148 (1901) First Line: Just a drop of water from a summer show'r Refrain First Line: Little things have wondrous pow'r Topics: Children Languages: English Tune Title: [Just a drop of water from a summer show'r]

Little Things

Author: Mrs. Ida Reed Smith Hymnal: The Revival No. 4 #180 (1903) First Line: Just a drop of water from a summer show'r Refrain First Line: Little things have wondrous pow'r! Languages: English Tune Title: [Just a drop of water from a summer show'r]

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Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Composer of "[Just a drop of water from a summer show'r]" in The Master's Call Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund, ==================== Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900. Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany. He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889. Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934). For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree. --Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives

Ida L. Reed

1865 - 1951 Person Name: Mrs. Ida Reed Smith Author of "Little Things" in The Master's Call Ida Lilliard Reed (Smith), 1865-1951 Born: November 30, 1865, near Arden, Barbour County, West Virginia. Died: July 8, 1951, Arden, West Virginia. Buried: Ebenezer Methodist Church, Arden, West Virginia. Reed is said to have written 2,000 hymns in her lifetime. In 1939, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers recognized her "substantial contribution to American music" by awarding her a small "weekly bonus." © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)