Now Hawkins' version is a major song in the Christian repertoire around the world. The black church made it more ecstatic, of course. It does not picture the singers in heaven like yesterday's hymn. The B side of the album was Hawkins singing his version of Wesley’s "Jesus, Lover of my Soul." This version of the hymn rejoices in the washing away of sins which connects with the baptism of the Ethiopian. When The Eddie Hawkins Singers were recording it, Dorothy Morrison, a member of the group, added some riffs to the tune which she said were influenced by James Brown. He took the main phrases of the chorus and refashioned them so they are repetitious and not so textually complicated. He was leading a youth choir in a COGIC congregation when he wrote and recorded this song. Edwin Hawkins grew up in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and knew the hymn. The composer Edward Rimbault added the chorus in the 19th century and the hymn became a confirmation/baptism hymn. Doddridge wrote many hymns, among them this one which has as its source the story of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8. Finally, he traveled to Portugal to regain his health but died of tuberculosis. Married and the father of nine children, Doddridge suffered poor health. Because poor children of dissenters could not find the means to attend these schools, Doddridge devised a way that they could be educated at these dissenting academies. Watts and Wesley both testified to its importance in their lives. His book The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul (1745) was the spark that changed the life of William Wilberforce, the great opponent of the slave traffic. A friend of Isaac Watts, also a Dissenter, Doddridge began writing. At the time the children of Dissenters were not allowed to attend government schools like Oxford or Cambridge. On reaching adulthood, Doddridge refused ordination into the Anglican church and became a leader among dissenters, helping to establish Daventry Academy, a major institution of learning for Dissenters. Albans, where the boy received a fine education. He was taken under the protection of a Presbyterian minister, Samuel Clark, a teacher at St. Philip was well taken care of, despite the fact that his appointed guardian squandered his entire inheritance. Philip’s mother taught him Bible history using the tiles on the fireplace mantel upon which Bible stories had been painted. His mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of John Bauman, a Lutheran pastor, who had been serving in Prague, but had to flee from persecution there to England. ![]() ![]() The last of twenty children born to a London merchant in oils and pickles, Doddridge’s grandfather, a clergyman, had been removed from his living after he could not submit to the Act of Uniformity in 1662. ![]() Its original author was Philip Doddridge, an English dissenter. It shows how the tradition is always capable of being renewed and redrafted. The story of this hymn is once again a surprise. Oh happy day (oh happy day) MEDITATION This is the Oh Happy Day most of you know-and maybe you clicked on yesterday's hymn thinking to find the story of this one. Oh happy day (oh happy day) He taught me how to watch, fight and pray, fight and prayĪnd live rejoicing every, everyday Oh happy day He taught me how Oh happy day (oh happy day)
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