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20th Century Gospel Songs

Publication Date: 1957 Publisher: Singspiration Publication Place: Grand Rapids, Mich. Editors: Don DeVos; Singspiration

Trust and Obey

Author: J. H. Sammis Appears in 440 hymnals First Line: When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word Used With Tune: [When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word]

In His Name

Author: R. C. Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: In His name and for His glory Used With Tune: [In His name and for His glory]

Author: D. W. Whittle Appears in 146 hymnals First Line: There's a royal banner given for display Refrain First Line: Marching on, marching on Used With Tune: [There's a royal banner given for display]

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Tunes

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[Wonderful birth, to a manger He came]

Appears in 14 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. H. Ackley Incipit: 56532 12123 17654 Used With Text: Wonderful

[When peace, like a river, attendeth my way]

Appears in 328 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: P. P. Bliss Incipit: 55433 23465 43517 Used With Text: It Is Well With My Soul

[What a Friend we have in Jesus]

Appears in 879 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles C. Converse Incipit: 55653 11651 31532 Used With Text: What a Friend

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Instances

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Day By Day

Hymnal: TCGY1957 #0 (1957) First Line: Sing when the day is bright Languages: English Tune Title: [Sing when the day is bright]

Wonderful Words of Life

Author: P. P. Bliss Hymnal: TCGY1957 #1 (1957) First Line: Sing them over again to me Refrain First Line: Beautiful words, wonderful words Languages: English Tune Title: [Sing them over again to me]

The Old Rugged Cross

Author: G. B. Hymnal: TCGY1957 #2 (1957) First Line: On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross Refrain First Line: So I'll cherish the old rugged cross Languages: English Tune Title: [On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross]

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People

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Helen Howarth Lemmel

1864 - 1961 Person Name: H. H. L. Hymnal Number: 48 Author of "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus" in 20th Century Gospel Songs Born: November 14, 1863, Wardle, England. Died: November 1, 1961, at her home in Seattle, Washington. Buried: Lemmel was cremated, but her final resting place is unknown to us. Daughter of a Methodist minister, Helen emigrated from England with her family to America when she was 12 years old. They first settled in Mississippi, then relocated to Wisconsin. She moved to Seattle in 1904, and for three years was music critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. While interviewing German singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Helen was persuaded to go to Europe. A gifted singer, she studied music in Germany for four years. Upon her return to America, she began giving concerts and traveling on the Chautauqua circuit. Eventually, she became a vocal music teacher at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. After retirement, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she was a member of the Ballard Baptist Church. Among her works are a hymnal used by evangelist Billy Sunday for over a decade. Lemmel and a women’s choral group she directed were part of Sunday’s group at the peak of his career. Sources: Hustad, pp. 272-73 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 3, 1961 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)

Jennie Evelyn Hussey

1874 - 1958 Hymnal Number: 45 Author of "Lead Me to Calvary" in 20th Century Gospel Songs Jane Evelyn Hussy was born 8 February 1874 in Henniker, N.H. She was an invalid from rheumatism. She began writing verse as a child. The first were published when she was thirteen. At sixteen she began to write stories, articles and designs for crochet needlework for magazines. In 1898 her first hymns were published. She was a member of the Society of Friends. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Joseph Medlicott Scriven

1819 - 1886 Person Name: Joseph Scriven Hymnal Number: 41 Author of "What a Friend" in 20th Century Gospel Songs Joseph M. Scriven (b. Seapatrick, County Down, Ireland, 1819; d. Bewdley, Rice Lake, ON, Canada, 1886), an Irish immigrant to Canada, wrote this text near Port Hope, Ontario, in 1855. Because his life was filled with grief and trials, Scriven often needed the solace of the Lord as described in his famous hymn. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, he enrolled in a military college to prepare for an army career. However, poor health forced him to give up that ambition. Soon after came a second blow—his fiancée died in a drowning accident on the eve of their wedding in 1844. Later that year he moved to Ontario, where he taught school in Woodstock and Brantford. His plans for marriage were dashed again when his new bride-to-be died after a short illness in 1855. Following this calamity Scriven seldom had a regular income, and he was forced to live in the homes of others. He also experienced mistrust from neighbors who did not appreciate his eccentricities or his work with the underprivileged. A member of the Plymouth Brethren, he tried to live according to the Sermon on the Mount as literally as possible, giving and sharing all he had and often doing menial tasks for the poor and physically disabled. Because Scriven suffered from depression, no one knew if his death by drowning in Rice Lake was suicide or an accident. Bert Polman ================ Scriven, Joseph. Mr. Sankey, in his My Life and Sacred Songs, 1906, p. 279, says that Scriven was b. in Dublin in 1820, was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and went to Canada when he was 25, and died there at Port Hope, on Lake Ontario, in 1886. His hymn:— What a Friend we have in Jesus. [Jesus our Friend] was, according to Mr. Sankey, discovered to be his in the following manner: "A neighbour, sitting up with him in his illness, happened upon a manuscript of 'What a Friend we have in Jesus.' Reading it with great delight, and questioning Mr. Scriven about it, he said he had composed it for his mother, to comfort her in a time of special sorrow, not intending any one else should see it." We find the hymn in H. 1... Hastings's Social Hymns, Original and Selected, 1865, No. 242; and his Song of Pilgrimage, 1886, No. 1291, where it is attributed to "Joseph Scriven, cir. 1855." It is found in many modern collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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