_MUSIC._ KREMSER is named after Edward Kremser, 1838-1914, a Viennese musician who arranged the tune from a Netherlands melody dating to 1625. The composer is not known. It is a stirring piece of music, simple in style, and easy to sing. It is equally impressive, whether sung in measured, stately tones like a chorale, or in the gayer festive mood in which young people like to sing. Children and young people usually respond to this hymn with enthusiasm. 16. Praise the Lord: ye heavens adore Him _Foundling Hospital Collection_ _Stanza 3 by Edward Osler_, 1798-1863 A free rendering of some lines of Psalm 148 in which all the hosts of heaven and earth join in a magnificent chorus of praise to God. The first two stanzas are anonymous. They were first published in the _Foundling Hospital Collection_, a book of hymns and anthems compiled by Thomas Coram, an English seaman, merchant captain and philanthropist. In later life, Mr. Coram devoted his time and fortune to the support of a children’s hospital in which a chapel was also maintained and the children trained in singing. Edward Osler, author of the third stanza, was an English surgeon and author of books on scientific as well as religious subjects. He was also a distinguished hymnologist and wrote a number of versions of the Psalms and hymns for use in the Church of England. _MUSIC._ FABEN was composed by John Henry Wilcox, 1827-75, Boston organist and expert in organ construction. The tune should not be taken too fast; otherwise the short notes become choppy and the effect is spoiled. Singers should avoid slurring the intervals of the melody, especially the descending fourth at the end of the first, third and seventh lines. 17. Come, let us join our cheerful songs _Isaac Watts,_ 1674-1748 A paraphrase of Revelation 5:11-13. It is one of the most widely esteemed of Watts’ poems and one of the classics of English hymnody. The basses and tenors would be less likely to sing the wrong words at the beginning of the third score if the lines of all four stanzas had been printed. Let the song leader remind them to look ahead for the proper lines of each stanza before singing their solo part, and so avoid some incongruities of thought! For comments on Isaac Watts see Hymn 11. _MUSIC._ CAMBRIDGE is an effective tune but with most congregations it needs some rehearsal before it is usable in a worship service. The composer, John Randall, 1715-99, was an organist and Professor of Music in Cambridge University. He was a friend of the poet Thomas Gray. 18. O come, loud anthems let us sing _Tate and Brady_ A metrical version of Psalm 95, by Tate and Brady, two Irishmen who collaborated in producing, in 1696, the _New Version_ of the Psalms. Their work partly supplanted the older version by Sternhold and Hopkins, then in use.