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Soul Refreshing Songs
Publication Date: 1898 Publisher: Hall-Mack Co. Publication Place: Philadelphia Editors: Rev. E. L. Hyde; Hall-Mack Co.
Soul Refreshing Songs
I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go
Author: Mary Brown Appears in 451 hymnals First Line: It may not be on the mountain's height Refrain First Line: I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord Used With Tune: [It may not be on the mountain's height]
I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go
Looking This Way
Author: J. W. Van DeVenter Appears in 112 hymnals First Line: Over the river, faces I see Refrain First Line: Looking this way, yes, looking this way Used With Tune: [Over the river, faces I see]
Looking This Way
[Come sinners to the gospel feast]
Appears in 28 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Gilmour Incipit: 11355 66533 35332 Used With Text: The Gospel Feast
[Come sinners to the gospel feast]
[The cross that He gave may be heavy]
Appears in 123 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Com. Ballington Booth Incipit: 55456 35422 34576 Used With Text: The Cross Is Not Greater
[The cross that He gave may be heavy]
I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go
Author: Mary Brown Hymnal: SRS1898 #2 (1898) First Line: It may not be on the mountain's height Refrain First Line: I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [It may not be on the mountain's height]
I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go
Are You Coming to the Feast?
Author: I. N. M. Hymnal: SRS1898 #3 (1898) First Line: There's a feast now awaiting, prepared by loving hands Refrain First Line: You're invited, are you coming? Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a feast now awaiting, prepared by loving hands]
Are You Coming to the Feast?
Judson W. Van DeVenter
1855 - 1939 Person Name: J. W. Van DeVenter Hymnal Number: 1 Author of "Sunlight" in Soul Refreshing Songs Judson W. Van DeVenter was born 15 December 1855 on a farm near the village of Dundee, Michigan. He was educated in the country and village schools, and at Hillsdale College. He later moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. He wrote about 100 hymns.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Judson W. Van DeVenter
Mary Brown
1856 - 1918 Hymnal Number: 2 Author of "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go" in Soul Refreshing Songs From the Norwich Bulletin, Norwich, Connecticut, January 23, 1918:
The death of Miss Mary M. Brown at Backus Hospital Tuesday morning saddened a host of friends and the different pupils who have had the benefit of her instruction for so many years. Miss Brown was born in Natick, R. I., May 19, 1856. She was the daughter of Lydia A. Higgins and Joseph R. C. Brown. Her common and high school education was received in Rockport, Mass. At the time there was a normal school in Norwich over twenty years ago, she took the course there and was graduated, after which she taught in the Model School in Norwich.
Miss Brown has taught in the Jewett City schools for twenty years. A teacher more faithful to the interests of the scholars and school cannot be found. Her interest in the welfare of her pupils did not cease after they went out from under her care. Her everready pen in poetical compositions for occasions of various kinds was in great demand and the verses were always of a beautiful sentiment, expressed in the best of language. The words for the Christian Endeavor Consecration hymn, "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go" known and sung wherever sacred music is used, where written by Miss Brown. Her artistic ability was developed in many lines.
She was a woman unusually gifted with literary talent. Miss Brown was a member of the Baptist Church. She was one of the original ten members forming Whatsoever Circle of The King's Daughters and has served as its leader. She was a member of the Ladies' Aid Society and Mission Circle, and had been a teacher in the Sunday school.
A woman faithful in many things has gone to her reward. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Nettie Johnson of Jewett City, a brother, E. Frank Brown of Woonsocket, R. I., and niece, Miss Marion H. Johnson of Willimantic.
--Submitted to Leonard Ellinwood by Lillian Cathcart, local historian of Norwich, Connecticut. DNAH Archives
Excerpt from letter from Julia Bair to Leonard Ellinwood, 22 August 1977:
I just talked with Mrs. Samuel Cathcart, our local historian, about Mary Brown. She did live in Jewett City in the late 1800's and wrote that hymn around 1890 as you indicated. However, someone changed one word in her original poem and had it copyrighted. She was never known as Charles Gabriel. She was a teacher here in Jewett City and I talked yesterday with one of her pupils! The music of this hymn (Mary Brown's original) was written by an officer in the Jewett City Savings Bank at that time.
--DNAH Archives
Mary Brown
Priscilla Jane Owens
1829 - 1907 Person Name: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal Number: 8 Author of "We Have an Anchor" in Soul Refreshing Songs Owens, Priscilla Jane, was born July 21, 1829, of Scotch and Welsh descent, and is now (1906) resident at Baltimore, where she is engaged in public-school work. For 50 years Miss Owen has interested herself in Sunday-school work, and most of her hymns were written for children's services. Her hymn in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, "We have heard a joyful sound" (Missions), was written for a Sunday-school Mission Anniversary, and the words were adapted to the chorus "Vive le Roi" in the opera The Huguenots. [Rev. James Bonar, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix II (1907)
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Owens, Priscilla Jane. (July 21, 1829--December 5, 1907). Of Scottish and Welsh ancestry, she spent her entire life in Baltimore. She was a public school teacher there for 49 years. She was a member of the Union Square Methodist Church and took particular interest in its Sunday School.
Her literary efforts, both in prose and poetry, appeared in such religious periodicals as the Methodist Protestant and the Christian Standard.
--William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives
Priscilla Jane Owens
