Charles Rockwell Tenney

1854–1928

Charles Rockwell Tenney (1854-1928) was an American Universalist minister. He is remembered chiefly as co-editor, with Leo R. Lewis, of Church Harmonies, New and Old (1895), a hymnal for congregational worship issued in Boston by the Universalist Publishing House. Following his death, he was listed among the ministerial obituaries in the Universalist Year Book for 1929.

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Church Harmonies, New and Old (1895) with Universalist Church of America, Leo Rich Lewis

The revision of the old Church Harmonies for a new generation: 'a book of spiritual song for Christian worshippers,' edited with the musical assistance of Charles R. Tenney and Leo Rich Lewis. It mixes the denomination's inherited hymnody with the newer gospel-song and Anglican-chant styles of the 1890s, and was the last major hymnal the Universalist Publishing House produced in the nineteenth century.

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