At age 12, Hugg be­came choir­mas­ter at the Pres­by­ter­i­an Church in Ber­lin, New Jer­sey. At 14, he pub­lished his first song, Walk in the Light, which be­came very pop­u­lar. He was a pro­lif­ic com­pos­er, with over 2,000 works, in­clud­ing 18 books of re­viv­al and Sun­day school mu­sic and 90 song serv­ices for spe­cial oc­ca­sions (Christ­mas, Eas­ter, etc.).

Hugg served as choir­mas­ter of the Tab­er­na­cle Pres­by­ter­i­an Church, and the Broad and Arch Street Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church in Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia. He was al­so close­ly con­nect­ed with the Har­per Me­mor­i­al Pres­by­ter­i­an Church in Phil­a­del­phia. His works in­clude:

• Walk in the Light, cir­ca 1862
• The Crown­ing Tri­umph, with F. L. Arm­strong (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: F. A. North & Com­pa­ny, 1879)
• Sunlight in Sac­red Song (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Will­iam H. Bon­er & Co., 1892)
• Light in the Val­ley (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: 1898)
• Fairer Than Day (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: 1903)

• Hall, pp. 263-65
• Hustad, p. 261

1. Birds on Leafy Bough Sing­ing, The
2. Carol, Sweet­ly Car­ol, the Sav­ior Rose To­day
3. Christ Is Ris­en!
4. Clad in the Gos­pel Ar­mor
5. Floating Down­ward Through the Mid­night
6. Forward Go and Let the Strain
7. From the Old Grey Tow­er
8. Hallelujah, Hal­le­lu­jah, Lift the Voice
9. Happy Home Com­ing of Our King
10. Hark, I Hear My Sav­ior Say
11. Holy, Ho­ly, Ho­ly, God of Hosts
12. How Sweet the Hour When Man Re­tires
13. I Have Read of a Won­der­ful Ci­ty
14. In the Morn of Morns
15. In the Sun­light, Bright and Glow­ing
16. List, the Mer­ry Bells Are Ring­ing
17. List, the Sweet­ly Chim­ing Bells
18. Lord of Hosts, We Come Ador­ing
19. Lord, We Come Again with Songs of Glad­ness
20. Lowly En­tombed He Lay
21. Make Room for the Bless­ed Phy­si­cian
22. O, Come to the Liv­ing Stream
23. O My Sweet Home, Je­ru­sa­lem
24. On This Bright and Glor­i­ous Morn­ing
25. Onward We Come, Sing­ing with Glee
26. Over Jor­dan, over Jor­dan
27. Praise Ye, Praise Ye, Praise Ye the Lord!
28. Precious Love of Je­sus, The
29. Put On, Put On, the Whole Ar­mor of God
30. Rejoice, Re­joice, the Mighty King Has Come
31. Ring, Ring the Bells
32. Safe on Board the Old Ship Zi­on
33. See, the Seal Is Rude­ly Brok­en
34. Sing Again to Me of Je­sus
35. Sing and Re­joice, All Ye Peo­ple
36. Soft the Ev­en­ing Bells Are Ring­ing
37. Song of Joy Per­vades the air, A
38. Strong to Re­deem Is the Lord Who Hath Made Me
39. There Is a Land Far, from Sor­row Free
40. There Is Sun­light in My Soul
41. There’s a Great Hap­py Throng
42. Third Day, The
43. Turning to God
44. When This Poor Heart Is Bur­dened with Grief
45. When We Rise to Greet the Mas­ter in the Morn­ing
46. With Song We Cel­e­brate the Day

1. Anchored
2. Beautiful Land of the Jas­per Walls
3. Blood up­on the Door, The
4. Callest Thou?
5. Concepción
6. Every Bridge Is Burned Be­hind Me
7. Father Holds the Hand
8. Fire Is Burn­ing, The
9. Gathering on the Hill­tops of Glo­ry
10. Gospel Train, The
11. I Expect to Get to Hea­ven the Same Old Way
12. Isle of Some­where, The
13. Jesus Is Ris­en!
14. Jesus Ne­ver Leaves the Ship
15. Light Di­vine
16. Marble Arch
17. Morning, The
18. No, Not One!
19. Our Ral­ly Song
20. Round the Pier
21. Satisfied
22. Scattering Pre­cious Seed
23. Take Off the Old Coat
24. Testing Time, The
25. To Vic­to­ry!
26. Tompkins
27. We’ll Ne­ver Say Good-Bye
28. When Je­sus Comes to Reign
29. Worthy the Lamb