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SABBATH
MORNING.
C.
M.D.
Original.
"My
voice
shalt
thoa
hear
in
the
morning,
O
Lord;
in
the
morning
will
I
direct
my
prayer
unto
thee,
and
will
look
up."
Ps.
5-3
Isaac
Watts,
1719.
Key
of
G
Major.
See
authors
of
this
tune
below.
Lord,
in
the
morn-ing
thou
shalt
hear
my
voice
as
-
cend
-
ing
high;
To
thee
will
I
di
-
rect
my
pray'r,
To
thee
lift
up
mine
eye.
Lord,
in
the
morn-ing
thou
shalt
hear
my
voice
as - cend
-
ing
high;
To
thee
will
I
di
-
rect
my
pray'r,
To
thee
lift
up
mine
eye.
Up
to
the
hills
where
Christ
has
gone,
To
plead
for
all
his
saints;
Pre-sent-ing
at
his
Fa-fher's
throne
Our
songs
and
our
complaints.
Up
to
the
hills
where
Christ
has gone,
To
plead
for
all
his
saints;
Pre-sent-ing
at
his
Fa-ther's
throne
Our
songs
and
our
complaints.
Tenor.-By
W.
B.
Mann.
Treble.-By
R.
H.
White.
Alto.-By
Jas.
L.
White.
Bass.-J.
F.
Davis.
This
hymn
originally
had
eight
stanzas,
and
the
title
was,
"For
The
Lord's
Day,
Morning."
It
represents
Dr.
Watts'
idea
of
the
Psalm
above,
and
it
is
referred
to
in
the
works
of
hymnology
as
one
of
the
standard
hymns
of
this
gifted,
fluent
writer.
He
was
born
in
1674
and
died
in
1748.
Sabbath
Morning-This
is
considered
one
of
the
standard
hymns
and
it
is
in
all
the
Christian
Church
Hymnals.
See
page
171
of
this
vol.,
same
hymn
to
a
differ-
ent
ent tune.
W.
B.
Mann,
author
of
the
tenor,
was
for
a
long
time
permanently
connected
with
the
Sacred
Harp
by
White
&
King.
R.
H
White,
author
of
the
treble,
was
a
son
of
B.
F.
White,
Sr.
J.
L.
White,
the
author
of
the
alto,
was
also
a
son
of
B.
F.
White
deceased,
lives
at
present,
1911,
in
Atlanta,
Ga.
He
has
been
teaching
music
for
over
thirty
years,
is
one
of
the
authors
of
the
New
Sacred
Harp,
published
188
seven
shape
notes,
and
is
the
principal
revisor
of
the B.
F.
White
Sacred
Harp
in
1909
and
1910.
He
has
composed
a
considerable
lot
of
music.
See
history
of
h
on
page
41
of
James
History
Sacred
Harp,
also
same
book,
page
46
as
to
R.
H.
White.