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[Have you not a word for Jesus?]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 33355 44323 45653 Used With Text: Have You Not a Word for Jesus?

Author: Geo. A. Robertson Appears in 65 hymnals First Line: Would you know why I love Jesus? Refrain First Line: This is why I love my Jesus Used With Tune: [Would you know why I love Jesus?]

Have You Not a Word for Jesus?

Appears in 8 hymnals Refrain First Line: Ye whom he hath called and chosen Used With Tune: [Have you not a word for Jesus?]

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Have You Not a Word for Jesus?

Hymnal: Spiritual Songs for Gospel Meetings and the Sunday School #42a (1878) Refrain First Line: Ye whom he hath called and chosen Languages: English Tune Title: [Have you not a word for Jesus?]

Have You Not a Word for Jesus?

Hymnal: New Spiritual Songs #42a (1887) Refrain First Line: Ye whom he hath called and chosen Languages: English Tune Title: [Have you not a word for Jesus?]

Why I Love Jesus

Author: Geo. A. Robertson Hymnal: Songs of Gratitude #5 (1877) First Line: Would you know why I love Jesus? Refrain First Line: This is why I love my Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [Would you know why I love Jesus?]

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George F. Robertson

Person Name: Geo. A. Robertson Author of "Why I Love Jesus" in Songs of Gratitude

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: J. H. F. Composer of "[Would you know why I love Jesus?]" in Songs of Gratitude 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