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Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Karl Pomeroy Harrington Tune Sources: The Methodist Hymnal (New York: The Methodist Book Concern, 1905) Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 17665 56714 32345

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Praise Ye Jehovah! (Campbell)

Author: Margaret M. Campbell Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 57 hymnals First Line: Praise ye Jehovah! praise the Lord most holy Lyrics: 1. Praise ye Jehovah! praise the Lord most holy, Who cheers the contrite, girds with strength the weak! Praise Him who will with glory crown the lowly, And with salvation beautify the meek. 2. Praise ye Jehovah! for His lovingkindness, And all the tender mercy He hath shown; Praise Him who pardons all our sin and blindness, And calls us sons, and takes us for His own. 3. Praise ye Jehovah! source of all our blessings: Before His gifts earth’s richest boons wax dim; Resting in Him, His peace and joy possessing, All things are ours, for we have all in Him. 4. Praise ye the Father! God, the Lord, who gave us, With full and perfect love, His only Son; Praise ye the Son! Who died Himself to save us; Praise ye the Spirit! praise the Three in One! Used With Tune: PRAISE Text Sources: First published in Psalms Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, by James G. Deck, 1842

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Praise Ye Jehovah! (Campbell)

Author: Margaret M. Campbell Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #5711 Meter: 11.10.11.10 First Line: Praise ye Jehovah! praise the Lord most holy Lyrics: 1. Praise ye Jehovah! praise the Lord most holy, Who cheers the contrite, girds with strength the weak! Praise Him who will with glory crown the lowly, And with salvation beautify the meek. 2. Praise ye Jehovah! for His lovingkindness, And all the tender mercy He hath shown; Praise Him who pardons all our sin and blindness, And calls us sons, and takes us for His own. 3. Praise ye Jehovah! source of all our blessings: Before His gifts earth’s richest boons wax dim; Resting in Him, His peace and joy possessing, All things are ours, for we have all in Him. 4. Praise ye the Father! God, the Lord, who gave us, With full and perfect love, His only Son; Praise ye the Son! Who died Himself to save us; Praise ye the Spirit! praise the Three in One! Languages: English Tune Title: PRAISE

Praise ye Jehovah! praise the Lord most holy

Author: Margaret C. Campbell Hymnal: The Methodist Hymnal #20 (1905) Languages: English Tune Title: PRAISE

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Karl P. Harrington

1861 - 1953 Person Name: Karl Pomeroy Harrington Composer of "PRAISE" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: June 13, 1861, Somersworth, New Hampshire. Died: November 14, 1953, Berkeley, California. Buried: Middletown, Connecticut. Son of Calvin S. and Eliza Chase Harrington, Karl earned his AB degree in 1882, and his AM in 1885, from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He studied at the University of Berlin (1887-89) and Yale University (1890-91). He taught high school in Westfield, Massachusetts (1882-85); Latin at Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts (1885-87); was a Latin tutor at Wesleyan University (1889-91); Latin professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1891-99); University of Maine (1899-1905); and Wesleyan University (1905). While at the University of North Carolina, he directed the Glee Club. His works include: The Roman Elegiac Poets, circa 1914 Richard Alsop, "a Hartford Wit" Walks and Climbs in the White Mountains, 1926 --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Margaret Cockburn-Campbell

1808 - 1841 Person Name: Margaret M. Campbell Author of "Praise Ye Jehovah! (Campbell)" in The Cyber Hymnal Campbell, Margaret, Lady Cockburn, née Malcolm, eldest daughter of Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., married, June 20, 1827, to Sir Alexander Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, Bart, (one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren in England), and died at Alphington, near Exeter, Feb. 6, 1811. Her hymns were printed in lithograph from her manuscript for private circulation. In the Plymouth Brethren Psalms & Hymns, Lond., Walther, 1842, some of these hymns were given, and thus came into common use. The best known is, "Praise ye Jehovah, praise the Lord most holy." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)