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Hymns / Music :: Louis Fitzgerald Benson

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Louis Fitzgerald Benson (1855-1930) Born: July 22, 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Died: October 10, 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Benson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania law school, but practiced law only seven years. In 1877, he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, where his father was a trustee. Upon graduation, Louis was ordained a minister and pastored at the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He also became a leading authority in hymnology; his library eventually grew to 9,000 volumes. In 1895, Benson helped edit The Hymnal of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Benson’s other works include:

  • The Chapel Hymnal, 1898
  • Studies of Familiar Hymns, 1903
  • The English Hymn: Its Development and Use in Worship, 1915
  • Hymns: Original and Translated, 1925
  • The Hymnody of the Christian Church, 1930

Hymns:

  1. By Roads That Wound Uphill and Down
  2. For the Bread, Which Thou Hast Broken
  3. I Name Thy Hallowed Name
  4. King Might Miss the Guiding Star, A
  5. Light of God Is Falling, The
  6. O Sing a Song of Bethlehem
  7. O Thou Whose Feet Have Climbed Life’s Hill
  8. O Thou Whose Gracious Presence Blest
  9. Sun Is on the Land and Sea, The
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