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Edison Male Quartet "Nearer My God To Thee" Edison Gold Moulded Record 7267 (1902)

Edison Male Quartet sings "Nearer My God To Thee" on Edison Gold Moulded Record 7267 (1902). "Nearer, My God, to Thee" is a 19th-century hymn with words by Sarah Flower Adams. She was inspired by Genesis 28:11--19, a passage about Jacob's dream: "So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it...." In England, the hymn has music by John Bacchus Dykes, but most other Christians sing a melody provided by the American composer Lowell Mason. Was "Nearer My God To Thee" played as the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic? The only source to say yes was Eva Hart, a Titanic survivor who made this claim as she recalled her childhood terror. But it was the British version of "Nearer My God To Thee," not Mason's composition (the Mason hymn is the one best known today). Mason hymns, known only to Americans, would not have been played by English musicians in the ship’s band. In Britain this text has never been associated with Mason’s tune. The British musicans on the ship knew a different version of "Nearer, My God, to Thee"--and no additional source confirms that they played it at all. Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me; Still all my song shall be nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee! Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, Darkness be over me, my rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God, to Thee... There let the way appear steps unto heav'n; All that Thou sendest me in mercy giv'n; Angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee, Then with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise, Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise; So by my woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee, Or if on joyful wing, cleaving the sky, Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upwards I fly, Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee, Edison Male Quartet "Nearer My God To Thee" Edison Gold Moulded Record 7267 (1902)