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Best of All Number 2

Publication Date: 1963 Publisher: R. E. Winsett Music Co. Publication Place: Dayton, Tenn. Editors: Ruth W. Shelton; R. E. Winsett Music Co.

We shall shine as the stars

Author: Judson W. Van de Venter Appears in 19 hymnals First Line: We may tarry awhile here as strangers Refrain First Line: We shall shine as the stars of the morning

Revive us again

Author: William P. Mackay Appears in 1,240 hymnals First Line: We praise thee, O God, for the Son of thy love Refrain First Line: Hallelujah, thine the glory

Leaning on the everlasting arms

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Appears in 617 hymnals First Line: What a fellowship, what a joy divine Refrain First Line: Leaning, leaning, safe and secure

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

A touch of His hand brought relief

Author: Joe E. Parks Hymnal: BAN21963 #d1 (1963) First Line: A touch of the hand of my wonderful Lord Languages: English

He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock

Author: Fanny J. Crosby Hymnal: BAN21963 #d2 (1963) First Line: A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord Languages: English

What will I leave behind

Author: Sherrill Brown Hymnal: BAN21963 #d3 (1963) First Line: After I leave for world's unknown Refrain First Line: Leave behind, yes, leave behind Languages: English

1877 - 1959 Person Name: J. Wright Hymnal Number: d121 Author of "Precious memories how they linger" in Best of All Number 2 Wright, John Braselton Fillmore (Tennessee, February 21, 1877--October 13, 1959, Brownwood, Texas). Church of God. Son of George W. and Casandra (Coley) Wright; educated in the public schools of Limestone County, Texas (at Groesbeck, Prairie Point and old Box Church); studied music in one eighteen-day singing school near Hamlin, Jones County, Texas. Married Fannie Jackson, February 13, 1898; children Harvey, Myrtle, Calvin, Carey, Leonard, Grace and Dudley. Wrote over 200 songs, both music and poetry. Began writing at about fifteen years of age; stated that "I write by inspiration, only when the mood comes on the words and melody flow from my soul like the water from a babbling brook; without this inspiration I could not write; 'Precious Memories' was born in the midnight hours as I bathed my pillow with tears, likewise all my songs came through life's severest tests." --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives The source of Wright's tears mentioned above was the memory of the death of his son, Everett Jackson Wright, at the age of 3 1/2 in 1922. A detailed account of this and the writing of "Precious Memories" can be found in the May 1952 edition of the Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Alabama), a copy of which is located in the DNAH Archives.

R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Hymnal Number: d43 Author of "Will you meet me over yonder" in Best of All Number 2 Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music. Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899. He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory. He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day). Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children. Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame. --www.wikipedia.org