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I Am Happy All the Time

Author: R. H. McDaniel Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I have given my heart to Jesus and I've joy and peace within Refrain First Line: I am happy, O so happy

[I have given my heart to Jesus]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Used With Text: I Am Happy All the Time

Instances

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Author: Rev. R. H. McDaniel Hymnal: Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services #13 (1917) First Line: I have given my heart to Jesus and I've joy Refrain First Line: I am happy, O so happy Lyrics: 1 I have giv’n my heart to Jesus and I’ve joy and peace within; He has banished all my darkness and has pardoned all my sin; Now I love to tell the story, precious souls for Him to win, So I’m happy, yes, I’m happy all the time. Refrain: I am happy, O so happy, for I’m on my journey home To the land of fadeless glory, Just beyond the Jordan’s foam, There to dwell with all the holy, never, nevermore to roam, So I’m happy, Yes, I’m happy all the time. 2 All my doubts and fears have vanished since He came into my soul, And He fills me with His fullness, sweeter far than can be told, Making gladness like a river thro’ my heart to sweetly roll; So I’m happy, yes, I’m happy all the time. [Refrain] 3 I rejoice in all my trials, for by faith I see the day When the clouds will all be lifted and my tears be wiped away— When in heav’n I’ll meet my Savior, nevermore from Him to stray; So I’m happy, yes, I’m happy all the time. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [I have given my heart to Jesus]

I Am Happy All the Time

Author: Rev. R. H. McDaniel Hymnal: Gospel Hymns and Songs #13 (1918) First Line: I have giv’n my heart to Jesus and I’ve joy and peace within Refrain First Line: I am happy, O so happy, for I’m on my journey home Topics: Joy Languages: English Tune Title: [I have giv’n my heart to Jesus and I’ve joy and peace within]

People

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Rufus H. McDaniel

1850 - 1940 Person Name: R. H. McDaniel Author of "I Am Happy All the Time" Rufus H. McDaniel was ordained in the Christian church in 1873. He found much joy in church music. He began writing hymns in the 1880's. He wrote, "I feel in my soul that God has something for me to do in brightening the experience of struggling souls. My chief desire is to be a blessing, if possible, to my fellow-men through these hymns and thereby glorify God in the name of his dear son 'whose I am and whom I serve.'" Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[I have given my heart to Jesus]" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman