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Pearls By the Way

Author: Johnson Oatman Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: While your face is toward that city with its wealth of jasper walls Refrain First Line: There are many, many pearls by the way

[While your face is toward that city with its wealth of jasper walls]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Adam Geibel Incipit: 34555 55535 66666 Used With Text: Pearls by the Way

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Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: World-Wide Hosannas #6 (1904) First Line: While your face is toward that city with its wealth of jasper walls Refrain First Line: There are many, many pearls by the way Topics: Service; Watching; Work Languages: English Tune Title: [While your face is toward that city with its wealth of jasper walls]

Pearls by the Way

Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Hymns of the Kingdom #22 (1905) First Line: While your face is t'ward that city Refrain First Line: There are many, many pearls by the way Lyrics: 1 While your face is t’ward that city with its wealth of jasper walls, Where the pearly gates are open wide to stay; Still remember there are diamonds scattered all along life's road, There are many, many pearls by the way. Refrain: There are many, many pearls by the way, You may find them if you watch as well as pray, Heaven's wealth is lying scattered all along life's dusty road, Gather up some precious pearls by the way. 2 Would you have your crown to sparkle like the stars that shine at night? Brighter than our golden sun which shines today? Do not wait to get to heaven to select your jewels there, But keep looking for life's pearls by the way. [Refrain] 3 Every crown of earth will perish, every gem return to dust, There is written over all the word “decay”; Not a thing, however precious, can you take to yonder shore, But the pearls that you may find by the way. [Refrain] 4 Every little act of kindness, every loving, noble deed, Every word that for the Master you may say, Every soul that you may garner for the harvest of our God, Are the pearls that you may find by the way. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [While your face is toward that the city]

Pearls by the Way

Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Favorites Number 6 #67 (1966) First Line: While your face is t’ward that city with its wealth of jasper walls Refrain First Line: There are many, many pearls by the way Languages: English Tune Title: [While your face is t’ward that city with its wealth of jasper walls]

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Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Person Name: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Author of "Pearls by the Way" in Hymns of the Kingdom Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914

Adam Geibel

1855 - 1933 Composer of "[While your face is toward that the city]" in Hymns of the Kingdom Born: September 15, 1855, Neuenheim, Germany. Died: August 3, 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Though blinded by an eye infection at age eight, Geibel was a successful composer, conductor, and organist. Emigrating from Germany probably around 1864, he studied at the Philadelphia Institute for the Blind, and wrote a number of Gospel songs, anthems, cantatas, etc. He founded the Adam Geibel Music Company, later evolved into the Hall-Mack Company, and later merged to become the Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company. He was well known for secular songs like "Kentucky Babe" and "Sleep, Sleep, Sleep." In 1885, Geibel organized the J. B. Stetson Mission. He conducted the Stetson Chorus of Philadelphia, and from 1884-1901, was a music instructor at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. His works include: Evening Bells, 1874 Saving Grace, with Alonzo Stone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Stone & Bechter, Publishers, 1898) Consecrated Hymns, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1902) Uplifted Voices, co-editor with R. Frank Lehman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1901) World-Wide Hosannas, with R. Frank Lehman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1904) Hymns of the Kingdom, co-editor with R. Frank Lehman et al. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1905) --www.hymntime.com/tch/