Short Name: | James M. Kirk |
Full Name: | Kirk, James M., 1854-1945 |
Birth Year: | 1854 |
Death Year: | 1945 |
James McPherson Kirk, 1854-1945
Born: June 18, 1854, Flushing, Ohio.
Died: June 10, 1945, Flushing, Ohio.
Buried: Flushing, Ohio.
Raised a Methodist, Kirk became associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CAMA) in 1887. He organized the CAMA’s Gospel Mission in Flushing, Ohio, in 1907, and as part of the Ohio Quartet, sang at CAMA conventions and gatherings.
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
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Kirk, James M. (Flushing, Ohio, 1854--1945). Converted at an early age. Became associated with the C&MA in 1887, was a first subscriber to The Alliance Weekly, and wonderfully healed at the first Cleveland Alliance convention. Spent entire life on a farm but devoted much time to Christian work. A member of a famous singing group, the Ohio Quartet, which for 12 years traveled extensively in convention work. In 1906 organized the Gospel Mission of the C&MA in Flushing. An outstanding figure in the Central District as song leader and in Bible teaching and prayer. Grandfather of Geraldine Southern, well-known mezzo-soprano, music instructor at Nyack, and director of music in Alliance churches. Kirk wrote some 40 songs, many while busy with farm chores. Some favorites:
Blessed Quietness
He Is Just the Same Today
I've Yielded to God
Tunes by James M. Kirk (32)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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[All in Jesus as our SAVIOR!] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 3 | 55565 31121 56617 |
[Blessed Jesus! how He saves me!] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 4 | 51233 21651 55661 |
BLESSED QUIETNESS (Marshall) | James M. Kirk (Arranged) | 33 | 34513 21617 65 |
[Called from above, I rise] | Jas. M. Kirk (Arranger) | 2 | 55332 11221 23344 |
[Fill us with Thy Holy Spirit, Lord] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 3 | 55556 53214 32346 |
[Have you found the great Physician] (Kirk) | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 7 | 13555 53313 55553 |
[I am watching for the coming of the glad millennial day] | J. M. Kirk (Composer) | 51 | 55111 23321 55553 |
[I have heavenly gladness in my soul today] | J. M. Kirk (Arranger) | 2 | 51332 17653 51176 |
[I have letters from my Father] | J. M. Kirk (Harmonizer) | 1 | 55111 12165 11211 |
[I have now washed my soul in the Blood of the Lamb] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 3 | 12334 51233 21511 |
[I hear my Savior saying] (Kirk) | James M. Kirk (Composer) | 4 | 13333 32135 55535 |
[I knew my sins were all forgiven] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 2 | 55555 54311 11712 |
[I read the sweet story again and again] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 5 | 11235 65312 11123 |
[I was so weary, sad and sore distressed] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 4 | 55555 61765 11111 |
[I have been alone with Jesus] (Kirk) | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 5 | 33335 32122 2123 |
[I'm gladly giving up my all to Thee, dear Lord] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 2 | 51112 31112 11655 |
[I'm never lonely anymore] | James M. Kirk (Composer) | 9 | 13332 35133 31232 |
[Is there trouble in your life?] (Kirk) | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 2 | 55123 21661 66555 |
[It was at the break of day] | J. M. Kirk (Harmonizer) | 1 | 51321 35513 21655 |
[I've seen the lightning flashing] (55535) | Kirk (Arranger) | 2 | 55351 33112 16555 |
[I've yielded to God, and I'm saved every hour] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 6 | 55456 55323 11123 |
[Live out Thy life within me] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 3 | 51112 35333 43251 |
[More about Jesus would I know] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 3 | 54565 32122 21235 |
[O blessed days with Jesus] | Jas. M. Kirk (Arranger) | 1 | 13565 32112 21235 |
[Of the sick who came to Jesus] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 2 | 32121 61513 55432 |
[O wonderful story of mercy and love] | James M. Kirk (Composer) | 2 | 51111 71217 11333 |
[Our Lord, whom we've not seen, yet whom we dearly love] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 5 | 51112 31121 65113 |
[There is healing for a look at the Crucified One] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 3 | 12333 35433 22222 |
[Trust and rest in Christ forever] (Kirk) | James M. Kirk (Composer) | 3 | 33333 35343 23453 |
[When we journey by the wayside and our hearts are filled with gloom] | Jas. M. Kirk (Composer) | 2 | 54333 33332 11123 |
[Ye saints of the Lord, rejoice and be glad] | Jas. M. Kirk (Arranger) | 3 | 55555 56715 55565 |
[Ye shall be My witnesses, was Jesus' last command] | James M. Kirk, 1854-1945 (Composer) | 6 | 33231 55567 16551 |