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Soul Stirring Songs

Publication Date: 1918 Publisher: John T. Benson Publishing Co. Publication Place: Nashville, Tennessee Editors: Mr. John T. Benson; Mrs. John T. Benson

Author: James Rowe Appears in 17 hymnals First Line: After my trials and troubles are past Refrain First Line: That will be glory and rapture indeed Used With Tune: [After my trials and troubles are past]

Jesus, Lover of my Soul

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 3,222 hymnals Used With Tune: MARTYN

The Gate Ajar

Appears in 204 hymnals First Line: There is a gate stands ajar Refrain First Line: O depth of mercy! can it be Used With Tune: [There is a gate stands ajar]

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Tunes

Tune authorities

[Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine]

Appears in 675 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mrs. J. F. Knapp Incipit: 32155 45655 35177 Used With Text: Blessed Assurance

[Down at the cross where my Savior died]

Appears in 444 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. J. H. Stockton Incipit: 33211 76153 33553 Used With Text: Glory to His Name

[Jesus, my Lord, to thee I cry]

Appears in 177 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Stockton Incipit: 55112 33213 23432 Used With Text: Take Me As I Am

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Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

I'm going there

Author: C. A. M. Hymnal: SSS1918 #1 (1918) First Line: There is a land of wondrous beauty Refrain First Line: And I'm going there some day Tune Title: [There is a land of wondrous beauty]

I Am On My Way to Heaven

Author: H. J. L. Hymnal: SSS1918 #2 (1918) First Line: I am on my way to heaven, where the saints Refrain First Line: O glory hallelujah, I am on the way to heaven Tune Title: [I am on my way to heaven, where the saints]

Feasting With My Lord

Author: John S. Brown Hymnal: SSS1918 #3 (1918) First Line: Since my soul is saved and sanctified Refrain First Line: Feasting, I am feasting Tune Title: [Since my soul is saved and sanctified]

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People

Authors, composers, editors, etc.

James M. Black

1856 - 1938 Person Name: B. M. J. Hymnal Number: 86 Author of "When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder" in Soul Stirring Songs James Milton Black USA 1856-1938 Born in South Hill, NY, Black was an American hymn composer, choir leader and Sunday school teacher. He worked, lived,and died in Williamsport, PA. An active member, he worked at the Pine Tree Methodist Episcopal Church there. He married Lucy Love Levan. He started his music career with John Howard of New York and Daniel B. Towner of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He edited a dozen gospel song books and wrote nearly 1500 songs. He also served on the commission for the 1905 Methodist Hymnal. John Perry

R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Person Name: R. E. W. Hymnal Number: 87 Author (vs. 4) of "Where Jesus Is, 'Tis Heaven" in Soul Stirring Songs 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

Russell Kelso Carter

1849 - 1928 Person Name: R. K. C. Hymnal Number: 95 Author of "Standing On the Promises" in Soul Stirring Songs Russel Kelso Carter was a professor in the Pennsylvania Military College of Chester. While there he was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became very active in leading camp meetings and revivals. After failing health forced him to abandon this work, he studied and became a medical doctor as well as a writer. He wrote novels as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

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