Ah the story behind the tipnos, story of the happy hymn the happy day
the day I chose to serve you my lord and God. It is necessary
that my joy in you show it today with deed and you. You are
happy, you are happy And for his sake, I will enjoy myself in
freedom and light. I saw myself when faith triumphed in me and the raudal
crimson health of my sick soul was when Elizabeth Dotwich gave birth to Philip had
already suffered Partom' s pains. More than 20 times. Eighteen of his
children had died during childhood. At the time of birth, the midwife thought
that Philip was born dead and devoted himself to caring for the mother. At
that time, Philip instantly cried Monica decided that her son' s life had
been saved. For a purpose. He spent the next six years doing his
best to teach him the scriptures. Oh. Philip lost his mother when he
was only eight years old, and four years later he was also fatherless.
God is an immortal father in his diary. My soul rejoices in him.
He' s helped me and taken care of me so far. My devotion
from now on will be to be a more loving, laborious and grateful child.
He was under the care of someone known as Downes, who sold all
his inheritance and abandoned him. Minister Samuel Clarke took care of him and treated
him like a son, guiding him in his education and encouraging him in his
vocation to the Ministry of Preaching. Toddrich was pastor of an independent church and
taught at a seminar for dissident missionaries in the 18th century. During this time
he wrote several hymns, including the well- known Happy the Day. This
anthem has been brought to music in different formats and melodies over the years.
The melody with which we all know it was composed in the middle of the
19th century by Edward Rimbold