Doane to produce gospel hymnals and Sunday school songbooks such as Bright Jewel (1869), Hymn Service (1871-1873), Welcome Tidings (1877), Gospel Hymn and Tune Book (1879), and Glad Refrain (1886).Įaster morning for sunrise services play in the B-flat setting for Easter morning worship at the usual hour look for a setting in C major (see 1959 Psalter Hymnal) Easter mornings can bear that extra lift! Known nationally as the editor of numerous Sunday school song collections for publishers Biglow and Maine in New York, Lowry also collaborated with William H. He was also a pastor at Baptist churches in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. Educated at Bucknell University, he returned there to become a professor of rhetoric from 1869-1875.
Originally the first line read, "Low in the grave He lay."Īlthough Lowry valued his preaching ministry much more than his writing of hymns, he attained a lasting name in the gospel music tradition.
The meditative stanzas of this testimony hymn contrast with its dramatic refrain–"He arose!" That refrain recalls for us the angel's announcement: "He is not here he has risen!" (Luke 24:6a). The hymn was published in Brightest and Best (1875), a church school songbook edited by Lowry and William Doane ( PHH 473).
Plainfield, NJ, 1899) composed both text and tune of this Easter gospel hymn in 1874 while he was pastor of the First Baptist Church, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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