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[We are merry missionaries]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. S. Lorenz Incipit: 55565 31317 22232 Used With Text: Merry Missionaries

Author: Harriet D. Castle Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: We are merry missionaries Refrain First Line: Don't you hear the pennies dropping Used With Tune: [We are merry missionaries]

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Merry Missionaries

Author: Harriet D. Castle Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #4209 First Line: We are merry missionaries Refrain First Line: Don't you hear the pennies dropping? Lyrics: 1. We are merry missionaries, Don’t you see? And we give our shining pennies, Give them free. Refrain Don’t you hear the pennies dropping? Dropping, dropping, dropping, dropping, Never seem to think of stopping, Hear them fall. 2. We’re so sorry heathen people Never know All about the gentle Jesus, Kind and true. [Refrain] 3. Pennies help to tell the story Once again, How the loving, tender Savior Died for them. [Refrain] 4. Now we’re coming down among you With our cup, And we hope that you will kindly Fill it up. [Refrain] 5. You big people might give dollars, We should say, If you can’t give something smaller, Any way. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [We are merry missionaries]

Merry Missionaries

Author: Harriet D. Castle Hymnal: The Master's Call #145 (1901) First Line: We are merry missionaries Refrain First Line: Don't you hear the pennies dropping Topics: Missions Languages: English Tune Title: [We are merry missionaries]

Merry Missionaries

Author: Harriet D. Castle Hymnal: The Revival No. 4 #196 (1903) First Line: We are merry missionaries Refrain First Line: Don't you hear the pennies dropping? Languages: English Tune Title: [We are merry missionaries]

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Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: Edmund Simon Lorenz Composer of "[We are merry missionaries]" in The Cyber Hymnal 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