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Be Ready When He Comes

Author: Abner P. Cobb Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Are you ready for your Lord, should He come? Refrain First Line: O be ready for Him when He comes!

[Are you ready for your Lord, should He come? should He come]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 56111 16511 21123 Used With Text: Be Ready When He Comes

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Author: A. P. Cobb Hymnal: Gems and Jewels #120 (1890) First Line: Are you ready for your Lord, should He come? should He come Refrain First Line: Oh, be ready for Him when He comes! when He comes Lyrics: 1 Are you ready for your Lord, should He come? should He come? Are you ready for His summons home? Does your anxious spirit burn, His appearing to discern? Are you ready if your Lord should come? Chorus: Oh, be ready for Him when He comes! when He comes! Oh, be ready for Him when He comes! Be it midnight, be it morning, When He gives the solemn warning, Oh, be ready, be ready when He comes! 2 Oh, there’ll be rejoicing when He comes! when He comes! If we hear Him saying: “Children come! Come, ye blessed, enter in, I have cleans’d you from all sin!” Oh, there’ll be rejoicing when He comes! [Chorus] 3 See! the saints enter in when He comes! when He comes! To the wedding when the Bridegroom comes! Brightly burning is each light, And in raiment spotless white, See! the saints enter in when He comes! [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you ready for your Lord, should He come? should He come]

Be Ready When He Comes

Author: A. P. Cobb Hymnal: Songs Tried and Proved #82 (1896) First Line: Are you ready for your Lord, should He come? should He come? Refrain First Line: Oh, be ready for Him when He comes! when He comes! Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you ready for your Lord, should He come? should He come?]

When He Comes

Author: A. P. Cobb Hymnal: Hymns New and Old, No. 2 #97 (1890) First Line: Are you ready for your Lord should He come, should He come Refrain First Line: Oh, be ready for Him when He comes, when He comes Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you ready for your Lord should He come, should He come]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Are you ready for your Lord, should He come? should He come]" in Gems and Jewels James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Abner P. Cobb

1853 - 1923 Person Name: A. P. Cobb Author of "Be Ready When He Comes" in Gems and Jewels Born: October 27, 1853, Wooster, Ohio. Died: February 11, 1923. Buried: Fairlawn Cemetery, Decatur, Illinois. Cobb’s family moved to Decatur, Illinois, when he was about 13 years old. As a young man, he worked as a machinist. He graduated from Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois, in 1878, and pastored in Normal, Washburn, Petersburg and Springfield, Illinois; Des Moines, Iowa; Covington, Kentucky; and San Antonio, Texas. He was also an active evangelist, attending meetings in Boston, New York City, Minneapolis, and other major cities. --www.hymntime.com/tch/