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Gather the Little Ones In
Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: Go to the hedges and broad highways Refrain First Line: Gather them in, let the room be full
Gather the Little Ones In
[Go to the hedges and broad highways]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: A. J. Showalter Incipit: 55556 53517 77765 Used With Text: Gather the Little Ones In
[Go to the hedges and broad highways]
[Go to the hedges and broad highways]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. M. Hunt Incipit: 53456 55442 34456 Used With Text: Gather Them Into the Fold
[Go to the hedges and broad highways]
[Go to the hedges and broad highway]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: I. Baltzell Incipit: 55534 56534 44254 Used With Text: Gather Them Into the Fold
[Go to the hedges and broad highway]
Gather Them Into the Fold
Hymnal: Holy Voices #188 (1883) First Line: Go to the hedges and broad highway Refrain First Line: Gather them in Languages: English Tune Title: [Go to the hedges and broad highway]
Gather Them Into the Fold
Gather the Little Ones In
Hymnal: Good Tidings #A24 (1885) First Line: Go to the hedges and broad highways Refrain First Line: Gather them in Languages: English Tune Title: [Go to the hedges and broad highways]
Gather the Little Ones In
Gather Them Into the Fold
Hymnal: The Missionary Triumph #102 (1889) First Line: Go to the hedges and broad highways Refrain First Line: Gather them in, gather them in Languages: English Tune Title: [Go to the hedges and broad highways]
Gather Them Into the Fold
A. J. Showalter
1858 - 1924 Composer of "[Go to the hedges and broad highways]" in Good Tidings Anthony Johnson Showalter USA 1858-1924/ Born in Cherry Grove, VA, he became an organist, gospel music composer, author, teacher, editor, and publisher. He was taught by his father and in 1876 received training at the Ruebush-Kieffer School of Music, Dayton, VA. He also attended George Root’s National Normal school at Erie, PA, and Dr Palmer’s International Normal at Meadville, PA. He was teaching music in shape note singing schools by age 14. He taught literary school at age 19, and normal music schools at age 22, when he also published his first book. In 1881 he married Lucy Carolyn (Callie) Walser of TX, and they had seven children: Tennie, Karl, Essie, Jennie, Lena, Margaret, and Nellie. At age 23 he published his “Harmony & composition” book, and years later his “Theory of music”. In 1884 he moved to Dalton, GA, and in 1890 formed the Showalter Music Company of Dalton. His company printed and published hymnals, songbooks, schoolbooks, magazines, and newspapers, and had offices in Texarkana, AR, and Chattanooga, TN. In 1888 he became a member of the M T N A (Music Teachers National Association) and was vice-president for his state for several years. In 1895 he went abroad to study methods of teachers and conductors in Europe. He held sessions of his Southern Normal Music Institute in a dozen or more states. He edited “The music teacher & home magazine” for 20 years. In 1895 he issued his “New harmony & composition” book. He authored 60+ books on music theory, harmony, and song. He published 130+ music books that sold over a million copies. Not only was he president of the A J Showalter Music Company of Dalton, GA, but also of the Showalter-Patton Company of Dallas, TX, two of the largest music publishing houses in the American south. He was a choir leader and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Dalton (and his daughter, Essie, played the organ there). He managed his fruit farm, looking after nearly 20,000 trees , of which 15,000 are the famous Georgia Elberta peaches, the rest being apples, plums, pecans, and a dozen other varieties of peaches. He was also a stockholder and director of the Cherokee Lumber Company of Dalton, GA, furnishing building materials to a large trade in many southern, central and eastern states. He died in Chattanooga, TN, and is buried in Dalton, GA. He loved hymns, and kept up with many of his students over the years, writing them letters of counsel and encouragement. In 2000 Showalter was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Note: Showalter received two letters one evening from former music students, both of who were grieving over the death of their wives. He had heard a sermon about the arms of Moses being held up during battle, and managed to form a tune and refrain for a hymn, but struggled to find words for the verses that fit. He wrote to his friend in OH, Rev Elisha Hoffman, who had already composed many hymns and asked if he could write some lyrics, which he gladly did.
John Perry
A. J. Showalter
I. Baltzell
1832 - 1893 Composer of "[Go to the hedges and broad highway]" in Holy Voices Baltzell, Isaiah. (near Frederick, Maryland, November 26, 1832--January 16, 1893, Frederick). He was educated in the common schools, and at New Windsor Academy, Carroll County, Maryland. In 1859 he married Cecilia Caroline James at Mountain Jackson, Virginia. Originally a Lutheran, he joined the United Brethren Church in 1847, was licensed to preach by the Virginia Conference in 1854, and ordained in 1856. In 1862 he joined the Pennsylvania Conference. He was presiding elder from 1875 to 1880, and from 1883 to 1889. He was a delegate to three General Conferences, and was a trustee of Otterbein University. In 1873 he was appointed by the General Conference a member of the committee to superintend the publication of Hymns for the Sanctuary. His first compilation was Revival Songster (Baltimore, 1859). He was joint editor, with G.W.M. Rigor, or Choral Gems (1871); joint editor, with E.S. Lorenz, of Heavenly Carols, Songs of Grace, Gates of Praise, Songs of Cheer, Songs of the Kingdom, Holy Voices, Songs of Refreshing, Notes of Triumph, Garnered Sheaves, Songs of the Morning, and The Master's Praise. He was also author of music and services for special occasions, and the editor and publisher of Carols of Praise.
See: Shuey, W.A. (1892). Manual of the United Brethren Publishing House; Historical and Descriptive: 243-244.
Some of his hymns bear the pseudonym Amicus.
--Harry Eskew, DNAH Archives
I. Baltzell
J. M. Hunt
1855 - 1919 Composer of "[Go to the hedges and broad highways]" in Songs of Zion As of 1885, Hunt lived in Lampasas, Texas. His works include:
Harvest Bells, with William Penn
Harvest Bells No. 2, with William Penn (Cincinnati, Ohio: The John Church Company, 1885)
The Gospel Alarm, with Sanford Miller Brown (St. Louis, Missouri: Central Baptist, 1886)
The Missionary Triumph, with Sanford Miller Brown (Cincinnati, Ohio: The John Church Company, 1889)
Songs of Zion, with Sanford Miller Brown (Kansas City, Missouri: Word and Way Publishing Company, 1898)
--www.hymntime.com/tch
J. M. Hunt
