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[You may help a load to lighten]
Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: I. H. Meredith Incipit: 32123 45132 13212 Used With Text: As You Go
[You may help a load to lighten]
You May Help a Load to Lighten
Appears in 8 hymnals Refrain First Line: Send out the sunshine as you pass along Topics: Brotherhood; Work and Service Used With Tune: AS YOU GO
You May Help a Load to Lighten
Grant Colfax Tullar
1869 - 1950 Author of "As You Go" in Sunday School Hymns No. 1 Grant Colfax Tullar was born August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut. He was named after the American President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. After the American Civil War, his father was disabled and unable to work, having been wounded in the Battle of Antietam. Tullar's mother died when he was just two years old so Grant had no settled home life until he became an adult. Yet from a life of sorrow and hardship he went on to bring joy to millions of Americans with his songs and poetry.
As a child, he received virtually no education or religious training. He worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk. The last Methodist camp meeting in Bolton was in 1847. Tullar became a Methodist at age 19 at a camp meeting near Waterbury in 1888.
He then attended the Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey. He became an ordained Methodist minister and pastored for a short time in Dover, Delaware. For 10 years he was the song leader for evangelist Major George A. Hilton. Even so, in 1893 he also helped found the well-known Tullar-Meredith Publishing Company in New York, which produced church and Sunday school music. Tullar composed many popular hymns and hymnals.
His works include: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar Meredith Co., 1903) and The Bible School Hymnal (New York: Tullar Meredith Co., 1907). One of Grant Tullar's most quoted poems is "The Weaver":
My Life is but a weaving
Between my Lord and me;
I cannot choose the colors
He worketh steadily.
Oft times He weaveth sorrow
And I, in foolish pride,
Forget He sees the upper,
And I the under side.
Not til the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly,
Shall God unroll the canvas
And explain the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful
In the Weaver's skillful hand,
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned.
He knows, He loves, He cares,
Nothing this truth can dim.
He gives His very best to those
Who chose to walk with Him.
Grant Tullar
--http://www.boltoncthistory.org/granttullar.html, from Bolton Community News, August 2006.
Grant Colfax Tullar
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Author of "As You Go" in The Fellowship Hymn Book In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
I. H. Meredith
1872 - 1962 Composer of "[You may help a load to lighten]" in Sunday School Hymns No. 1 Pseudonyms
Charles C. Ackley (taken from his wife’s name, Clarissa Ackley Cowan)
Broughton Edwards
Floyd Engle (from his address on Floyd Street in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey)
Arthur Grantley
Bruce Kennedy
See also Ackley, Chas. C. 1872-1962
See also Edwards, Broughton
I. H. Meredith
