New Adventist Songs
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James White (1821-1881) was a leader in the early Advent movement, and later a pioneer in establishing the Seventh-day Adventist church. One of those who responded to the preaching of William Miller was a 21-year old schoolteacher from Palmyra, Maine, James White, member of a musical family, his father having been at one time a […]
Wilson MacDonald (1880-1967) was a Canadian poet, and a seeker for truth. He believed in non-violence, and adopted a vegetarian diet. He looked forward to a world wherein peace would dwell, and strove by his writings, to call attention to that high ideal. I discovered his writings over 20 years ago, while browsing through used […]
This section is devoted to poems. The poems presented are from various poets, not necessarily of the Adventist tradition, but which present the same faith, or many of the same principles. Like some of the other sections of this website, it will probably grow with time. I’m posting them here not just for those who […]
Poems and Songs related to the Second Advent of Jesus Christ.
This section contains mostly some experiments with a Yamaha PSS-480 synthesizer and early American “fuging tunes“. There are a few other recordings mixed in among the lot, some with real instruments and singing, but the bulk of the songs use the Yamaha PSS. These recordings were made a few years after I discovered an original […]
In the late 1980’s I discovered early American shapenote, or “Sacred Harp” music and began singing, collecting, and publishing some of the tunes in small hand-made songbooks. The first book was just a collection of tunes from The Hesperian Harp, William Houser’s shapenote songbook which was published in 1848. I had located a copy of […]
This site is dedicated to Christian Poetry and Music, with particular emphasis on the theme of the return of Jesus Christ and the events leading up to it. I am a member of the Sabbath Rest Advent Church, a small group that developed out of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the early 1960’s, through the […]
Songs from the early American “Sacred Harp” tradition. Sacred Harp or “Shape-note” music is a genre of religious music from early America (late 1700’s to mid 1800’s), which thrived in the rural communities. The tunes are often based on folk melodies or ballads. The songs were published in books with different shapes for the note-heads, […]
Annie Smith (1828-1855) was a Seventh-day Adventist pioneer, and the sister of Uriah Smith (who later was to be a prolific author, and editor of the church paper). She was involved in the Millerite movement, and experienced the great disappointment in 1844, at the age of 16. After that, she turned to furthering her education […]
