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FAMILY
CIRCLE.
8.
7.
"The
fonntain
is
Christ."
Zech.
13:1.
Rev.
Robert
Robinson,
about
1758.
Key
of
A
Major.
Chorus.
Rev.
R.
E.
Brown
&
B.
F.
White,
1850,
Alto
by
S.
M.
Denson,
1911.
1.
Come,
thou
fount
of
ev'ry
blessing,
Tune
my
heart
to
sing
thy
grace;
Streams
of
mer-cy
never
ceasing,
Call
for
songs
of
loud-est
praise.
}
Bless
the
Lord,
O
my
soul!
Praise
the
Lord,
O
my
brother!
shout
and
sing,
O
my
2. Teach
me
some
me-lo-di-ous
son-net,
Sung
by
flam-ing
tongues
above;
Praise
the
mount,
Oh
fix
me
on
it,
Mount
of
God's
unchanging
love
}
Bless
the
Lord,
O
my
soul!
Praise
the
Lord,
O
my
brother,
Shout
and
sing,
O
my
3.
O,
to
grace
how
great
a
debtor
Dai-ly
I'm
con-strained
to
be!
Let
that
grace,
Lord,
like
a
fetter,
Bind
my
wandering
heart
to
thee.
}
Bless
the
Lord,
O
my
soul!
Praise
the
Lord,
O
my
brother!
Shout
and
sing,
O
my
sis-ter!
Give
Him
glo-ry,
O
my
fath-er!
And
re-joice,
O
my
mother!
And
we'll
tra-vel
on
to-gether,
And
we'll
join
heart
and
hands
for
Ca-naan.
sis-ter
!
Give
Him
glo-ry,
O
my
fath-er!
And
re-joice,
O
my
mother
!
And
we'll
tra-vel
on
to-gether,
And
we'll
join
heart
and
hands
for
Ca-naan.
sis-ter
!
Give
Him
glo-ry,
O
my
fath-er!
And
re-joice,
O
my
mother
!
And
we'll
tra-vel
on
to-gether,
And
we'll
join
heart
and
hands
for
Ca-naan.
B.
F.
White
author
of
the
above
tune
is
one
of
the
compilers
of
the
Sacred
Harp,
1844,
and
has
made
three
appendix
to
it
1850,
1859,
and
1869.
He
composed
a
large
lot
of
music,
but
if
he
composed
any
music
except
for
the
Sacred
Harp,
we
have
not
been
able
to
find
it.
Many
of
his
tunes
appear
in
other
books;
quite
a
num-
ber
of
his
tunes
in
the
"Sacred
Harp"
he
re-arranged
for
that
volume,
and
a
large
number
of
the
tunes
he
composed
himself,
which appear
from
the
different
pages
in
the
book,
For
a
more
extended
history
of
him,
we
refer
to
"Baptismal
Anthem,"
page
232,233,
and
"Red
Sea
Anthem,
350,
as
well
as
various
other
sketches
connected
with
his
tunes.
He
died
in
Atlanta,
Ga.,
1879,
For
complete
history
of
him,
we
also
refer
to
pages
27
to
37
inclusive
of
"James'
Brief
History
of
the
Sacred
Harp."
R.
E.
Brown,
at
the
time
this
tune
was,
composed
1850.
He
lived
in
Barber
county,
Ala.
He
was
a
Baptist
Minister,
and
also
a
vantriliquest.
He
belonged
to
the
Southern
Musical
Convention
at
that
time.
He
died
in
prison
during
the
war.