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202 Hail Him the King of GloryBoth words and music of this martial hymn were composed by Henry de Fluiter in 1916. They offer a remarkable contrast to the dark days of Allied setbacks and retreat in Word War I, especially when viewed in the context of the glorious day when the Prince of Peace shall put an end to war and take His rightful place as King of glory. Henry was born in Holland in 1872, and his family moved to America when Henry was a small boy. While Henry was working as an apprentice to a sign painted, he read about the Seventh-day Adventist faith in books from a colporteur. His parents in another city had also bought books and read their way into the same church! Later he assisted Adventist Pastor D. E. Lindsey in some Ohio meetings, being paid $5 per week from private donations. (The conference officers, when requested to pay the singer, had said, "Whoever heard of hiring someone just to help with the music?") During these meetings, Henry wrote his first song. As an academy student in 1909, he met H.M.S. Richards. Some years later, in 1926, the two men worked together in California in big-tent and tabernacle evangelism, baptizing literally thousands in the large cities of California. Many of De Fluiter's songs were inspired by the sermons of Elder Richards, and often Henry would sing a new one at the close. He was still writing songs just a few months before his death at age 98 in 1970 in a rest home at Azusa, California.
2/9/08Hail Him the King of Glory
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Grace Notes was a joint production of the late Minister of Music, Steve Gungl, and former Pastor John Duge. It relies heavily on The Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal and The SDA Digital Hymnal.
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