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Author: Sabine Baring-Gould Appears in 1,792 hymnals Topics: Choir and Special First Line: Onward, Christian soldiers! Refrain First Line: Onward, Christian soldiers! Used With Tune: [Onward, Christian soldiers!]

All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name (Diadem)

Author: Edward Perronet; John Rippon Appears in 3,417 hymnals Topics: Choir and Special First Line: All hail the pow'r of Jesus’ name! Used With Tune: DIADEM

Master, the Tempest Is Raging

Author: Mary A. Baker Appears in 268 hymnals Topics: Choir and Special First Line: Master, the tempest is raging! Refrain First Line: "The winds and the waves shall obey My will Used With Tune: [Master, the tempest is raging!]

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[Jesus, Lover of my soul]

Appears in 834 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Simeon B. Marsh Topics: Choir and Special Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33312 22335 43213 Used With Text: Jesus, Lover of My Soul

PEACE, BE STILL!

Meter: 8.7.9.7.8.6.10.7 with refrain Appears in 175 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Horatio R. Palmer Topics: Choir and Special Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 56551 32617 65453 Used With Text: Master, the Tempest Is Raging!

[A great and mighty wonder]

Appears in 169 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Anonymous; Michael Praetorious (1571-1621) Topics: Choir and Special Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55565 53432 17155 Used With Text: A Great and Mighty Wonder

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Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

Author: Charles Wesley Hymnal: Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) #90 (1989) Topics: Choir and Special Tune Title: [Jesus, Lover of my soul]

Wonderful Peace

Author: W. D. Cornell Hymnal: Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) #113 (1989) Topics: Choir and Special First Line: Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight Refrain First Line: Peace! Peace! wonderful peace Tune Title: [Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight]

Each Step I Take

Author: W. Elmo Mercer Hymnal: Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) #128 (1989) Topics: Choir and Special First Line: Each step I take my Saviour goes before me Refrain First Line: Each step I take I know that He will guide me Tune Title: [Each step I take my Saviour goes before me]

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People

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Joseph A. Seiss

1823 - 1904 Topics: Choir and Special Translator (4th verse) of "Fairest Lord Jesus" in Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) Joseph A. Seiss was born and raised in a Moravian home with the original family name of Seuss. After studying at Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg and completing his theological education with tutors and through private study, Seiss became a Lutheran pastor in 1842. He served several Lutheran congregations in Virginia and Maryland and then became pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church (1858-1874) and the Church of the Holy Communion (1874-1904), both in Philadelphia. Known as an eloquent and popular preacher, Seiss was also a prolific author and editor of some eighty volumes, which include The Last Times (1856), The Evangelical Psalmist (1859), Ecclesia Lutherana (1868), Lectures on the Gospels (1868-1872), and Lectures on the Epistles (1885). He contributed to and compiled several hymnals. Bert Polman

J. Edwin Orr

1912 - 1987 Topics: Choir and Special Author of "Cleanse Me" in Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) Rv James Edwin Orr MA ThD EdD PhD United Kingdom/USA. Born at Belfast, Northern Ireland, son of a jeweler with both British and American citizenship (so his children did as well), he studied at the College of Technology, Belfast, Ireland. After spending some years as a baker, he began evangelizing in Britian and in Europe. In 1937 he married Ivy Carol Carlson, and they had a daughter: Eileen. After their marriage, the Orrs evangelized in Australia (1939), China, Canada, South America, and the U.S. In 1939 he enrolled at Northwest University, and in 1940 was ordained into the Baptist Christian ministry at Newark, NJ. He received a MA from Northwest University in 1941 and a ThD from Northern Baptist Seminary in 1943. During WWII he served as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force in the Pacific region. During these years he also wrote several accounts of his preaching tours. After the war he continued his studies and took his PhD at Oxford University in 1948, with his thesis on the second evangelical awakening in Britain. In 1949 he and his wife made the U.S. their permanent base and continued to travel the world promoting church revival and renewal. They evangelized in 150 countries on several continents. In 1966 he became a professor at the School of World Missions, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. In 1971 he received his EdD degree from UCLA. He remained at Fuller until 1981., and as professor emeritus thereafter. He also received honorary degrees from an Indian seminary and the university of South Africa. Billy Graham wrote: “Dr J Edwn Orr, in my opinion, is one of the greatest authorities on the history of religious revivals in the Protestant world.” From 1951 on he was influential in Campus Crusade for Christ, and was one of its five original board members. He authored 40+ works, mostly on revival work. He also wrote a few hymn lyrics. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the American Geographical Society, the Royal Historical Society, and the Royal Society of Literature. He died at Ridgecrest, NC. Burial: Camarillo, CA. John Perry

W. S. Pitts

1830 - 1918 Person Name: William S. Pitts Topics: Choir and Special Author of "The Church in the Wildwood" in Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) William Savage Pitts MD USA 1830-1918. Born at Yates, NY, the son of Puritans, he was the 8th of nine children. He had musical ability from an early age, taking formal music lessons from a graduate of the Boston Handel & Hadyn Society. At age 19, he traveled with his family to Rock County, WI, where he worked as a rural music schoolteacher in Union, WI. He taught for several years, there and at singing schools, and for brass bands, composing much of their music. In 1857 he traveled to Fredericksburg, IA, to visit his fiancee, Ann Eliza Warren, a teacher. Along the way he stopped his horse-drawn wagon at Bradford, IA, to rest. He walked across a field and saw a picturesque wooded valley formed by the Cedar River. Viewing the spot, he envisioned a church building there. He couldn’’t get the image out of his mind. Returning home to WI, he wrote out the words to a poem about the envisioned scene, calling it “Church in the wildwood”, for his own sake. He was then at rest about it. In 1862, he was married in Union, WI, and he and his wife moved to Fredericksburg to be near her elderly parents. Upon returning to Iowa, Pitts stopped along the route at the same location he had five years before to see it again. He was surprised to see a little church being built, and being painted brown. He met with the builders and asked why it was being painted brown, finding out that it was the cheapest paint they could find.. money being tight. The church builders, learning about his poem written several years earlier, asked him to bring his church choir to the dedication and sing a dedicatory song. In 1863 he did so. This was the first time the song was sung in public. The Pitts remained at Fredersicksburg, IA, for 44 years and had five children: Nellie, Grace, Alice, William, and Kate. Pitts served as mayor of Fredericksburg for seven years, as school treasurer for 26 years, wrote a biographical local history, and was a Master Freemason. In 1865 Pitts moved to Chicago to enroll at Rush Medical College. While there, to pay expenses, he offered several songs he had written to a music publisher, who chose his song “Little brown church in the vale”, and he sold the rights to his song for $25. He completed medical school, graduating in 1868, but the song was largely forgotten for several decades. Pitts practiced medicine in Fredericksburg until 1906. His wife died in 1886, and he remarried to Martha Amelia Pierce Grannis in 1887. They moved to Clarion, IA, in 1906. She died in 1909. Pitts then moved to Brooklyn, NY, to be with his son, William, who was working for the U. S. War Department. Pitts joined Fredericksburg’s Baptist Church in 1871, then the Congregational Church in Clarion, IA, in 1906, and later the Dyker Heights Congregational Church in Brooklyn, NY, in 1909. He occasionally performed his most famous song. He died at Brooklyn, NY, but was buried in Fredericksburg, IA. John Perry

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