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[This is the way the snow comes down]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. W. Gilchrist Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 56712 33215 35353 Used With Text: This Is the Way the Snow Comes Down

This Is the Way the Snow Comes Down

Appears in 12 hymnals Lyrics: 1 This is the way the snow comes down, Softly, softly falling; So He giveth His snow like wool, Fair, and white, and beautiful; This is the way the snow comes down, Softly, softly falling. 2 This is the way the rain comes down, Swiftly, swiftly falling; So He sendeth His welcome rain, O'er the hill and over the plain; This is the way the rain comes down, Swiftly, swiftly falling. Topics: God in Nature Used With Tune: [This is the way the snow comes down]

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This Is the Way the Snow Comes Down

Hymnal: Let Youth Praise Him #25 (1964) Lyrics: 1 This is the way the snow comes down, Softly, softly falling; So He giveth His snow like wool, Fair, and white, and beautiful; This is the way the snow comes down, Softly, softly falling. 2 This is the way the rain comes down, Swiftly, swiftly falling; So He sendeth His welcome rain, O'er the hill and over the plain; This is the way the rain comes down, Swiftly, swiftly falling. Topics: God in Nature Languages: English Tune Title: [This is the way the snow comes down]

This is the Way the Snow Comes Down

Hymnal: The Children's Hymnal #151 (1918) Languages: English Tune Title: [This is the way the snow comes down]

This is the way the snow comes down

Hymnal: The Children's Hymnal and Service Book #247 (1929) Languages: English Tune Title: [This is the way the snow comes down]

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William Wallace Gilchrist

1846 - 1916 Person Name: Wm. W. Gilchrist Composer of "[This is the way the snow comes down]" in The Children's Hymnal Born: January 8, 1846, Jersey City, New Jersey. Died: December 20, 1916, Easton, Pennsylvania. Buried: Saint Thomas’ Episcopal Church, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Gilchrist’s family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when William was nine years old. He attended school there until the outbreak of the American civil war, when his father’s business failed and William had to seek other work. Having a good voice, he sang in choirs and choruses, first as a soprano, and later a smooth, flexible baritone. He began singing some of the principal parts in the Handel and Haydn Society, where his first real musical life began. At age 19, Gilchrist began studying organ and voice with Professor H. A. Clarke, gradually concentrating on theory. At age 25, he spent a year in Cincinnati, Ohio, as organist and teacher, returning to Philadelphia to take post of choir master at St. Clement’s Protestant Episcopal Church. He later became conductor of the Mendelssohn Club, Tuesday Club of Wilmington, and Philadelphia Symphony Society. Gilchrist was best known as a composer. His first success was in 1878, winning two prizes from the Abt Society of Philadelphia for best choruses for male voices. In 1881, he won three similar prizes from the Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York. In 1884, he took a $1,000 prize from the Cincinnati Festival Association; the judges included Saint-Saëns, Reinecke, and Theodore Thomas. This work was an elaborate setting of the Forty-Sixth Psalm, and was enthusiastically received. Gilchrist afterwards modified it and brought it out at the Philadelphia Festival in 1885. Gilchrist also served as editor of the 1895 Presbyterian hymnal, as musical editor of The Magnificat in 1910, and wrote symphonies, chamber and choral music. His works include: An Easter Idyll Psalm 46 (New York: 1882) One Hundred and Third Psalm Ninetieth Psalm Fifth Psalm Prayer and Praise De Profundis The Rose (New York: 1887) Ode to the Sun A Christmas Idyll (Boston, Massachusetts: 1898) The Lamb of God (New York: 1909) © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)