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All hearts to Thee are open here

Overview of James Montgomery's hymn "All hearts to Thee are open here," composed for a Sunday School anniversary in 1837.

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"All hearts to Thee are open here" is a hymn written by James Montgomery for the annual service of the Red Hill Sunday School in Sheffield, held on May 12, 1837. The six-stanza text in four-line meter was originally printed on a fly-leaf for the occasion.

Montgomery later included the full text in his Original Hymns (1853, No. 116). In John Hamilton Thom's Hymns (1858), the fifth stanza was omitted.

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