Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too, Ten­ney was named af­ter Amer­i­can pre­si­dent Will­iam Hen­ry Har­ri­son. A dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mass­a­chu­setts, he ed­it­ed or was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of over 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more. His works in­clude:

• American Male Choir
• Golden Sun­beams, with Dan­i­el Hodg­es (Lee and She­pard, 1876)
• Temperance Jew­els, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1879)
• Bells of Vic­to­ry, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Oliv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1888)
• Gems of Gos­pel Song
• Sharon’s Dewy Rose
• Songs of Faith
• Shining Light
• Songs of Joy
• Sparkling and Bright
• Spiritual Songs, Nos. 1 and 2
• Sweet Fields of Eden
• The Bea­con Light
• The Sing­ing School Ban­ner
• The An­them Of­fer­ing
• The Amer­i­can An­them Book
• The Crown of Praise

• Hall, pp. 219-22

1. At Thy Feet Like Ma­ry
2. Beautiful Home Above
3. Do They Pray for Me at Home?
4. Earth and Sky with Beau­ty Trem­bling
5. Ever Cons­tant, Ev­er True
6. I Am the Way, the Sav­ior Said
7. Many a Soul on Life’s Dark Ocean
8. O Sound Ye the Trum­pet
9. Slowly Now the Sun Is Set­ting
10. When by Sin and Guilt O’er­tak­en

1. Asilomar
2. Bogotá
3. Beyond the Swell­ing Flood
4. Cancún
5. Come to Je­sus
6. Ever Will I Pray
7. Hallowed Hour of Pray­er
8. Into Thy Hands, O Lord
9. Jesus Is Pass­ing This Way
10. Jubilate!
11. My An­chor Is Hold­ing
12. Nothing Be­tween
13. Onward Chris­tian Sol­diers
14. Sabbath Bell
15. San Fran­cis­co
16. Till the Morn­ing Light
17. We’ll Ne­ver Say Good­bye
18. Where Will You Spend Eter­ni­ty?