Sunday Morning

O welcome Sunday morning

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Published in 5 hymnals

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds

Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorab… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: O welcome Sunday morning
Title: Sunday Morning
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Language: English
Refrain First Line: The day comes back again
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Hymnal for Joyous Youth #8

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Joy and Praise #17

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Life Songs #158

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Songs of Cheer for Children #28

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