Yesterday the first, and longest prelude piece was an alla breve from Bach's D major prelude and fugue. I ended the prelude with an arrangement of the famous hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
The music during the offering was an arrangement of "Jesus Calls Us O'er the Tumult." This hymn is still very much alive, but it doesn't happen to be in the blue hymnal. It does appear in the 1969 red Mennonite Hymnal as #229. Find the entire original here and even listen to it. Her photo above.
If you you want a woman hymn writer for the ages, you have one with Cecil Francis Humphreys Alexander, 1818-1895, a prominent Irish Church of England figure. She wrote 400 hymns in her life. We know her also by "Once in Royal David's City," and "All Things Bright and Beautiful."
The postlude was a take-off of the Westminster chimes, with a lot of bubbly fast notes in the hands and a few large and low pedal notes.
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