Maryville College Singing

Samuel Tyndale Wilson Center for Campus Ministry (CCM), Maryville College
Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee
Sunday, October 25, 2009

All selections from New Harp of Columbia, Restored Edition, 2001.

The annual Maryville College Singing convened at 1400h on Sunday, October 25th, 2009 in the old Lamar Memorial Library building, now the Samuel Tyndale Wilson Center for Campus Ministry. Tom and Nan Taylor and Nancy Olsen led the singing.

107, Holy Manna - Tom Taylor
Prayer - Nancy Olsen
A20, Fairfield - Claudia Dean
14, Mear - Rick Johnson
110, North Salem - Andrew Whaley
89, Morality - Paul Clabo (see Note)
48, Christian Contemplation - Joe Sarten
35, Ninety-Fifth - Gid Fryer
A22, Detroit - David Sarten
162, Merdin - Steve Stone
109, Bruce's Address - Bob Richmond
139, Meditation - Nan Taylor
115, Northfield - Bruce Wheeler
114t, Zion - Nancy Olsen, for Martha Graham
80b, Shawmut - Virginia Douglas
144, Rowley - Robin Goddard
20b, Hebron - Reba Blalock Clabo (Mrs. Connie Clabo, as of March 2009)
99, Morning Trumpet - Nancy Olsen
206, Western Mount Pleasant - Andrew Whaley
46, Concord - Steve Stone
53b, Dundee - David Sarten
68t, Paradise
95, Parting Hand - Linda Gass, in memory of her father Tandy Dalton
11, Old Hundred - Nancy Olsen
Prayer - Paul Clabo

Note: Paul Clabo handed out a photocopy of all six verses to "Morality" from The Good Old Songs (693) compiled by Elder C.H. Cayce, Cayce Publishing Co., Thornton AR 1913, revised 1997. This is a widely used hymnal in the "Stamps-Baxter" Aikin 7-note gospel tradition. In addition to verse 1 from the New Harp of Columbia, we sang verses 4,5, and 6:

4.
For when age steals on me, and youth is no more,
And the moralist, Time. shakes his glass at my door,
What pleasure in beauty or wealth can I find?
My beauty, my wealth, is a sweet peace of mind.

5.
That peace! I'll preserve it as pure as 'twas given,
Shall last in my bosom an earnest of heaven;
For virtue and wisdom can warm the cold scene,
And sixty can flourish as gay as sixteen.

6.
And when I the burden of life shall have borne,
And death with his sickle shall cut the ripe corn,
Reascend to my God without murmur or sigh,
I'll bless the kind summons, and lie down and die.

The text, explicitly written by a woman, is by Hannah More 1813. Hannah More (1745–1833) was an Anglican abolitionist educator. (Wikipedia)

Minutes: Bob Richmond.