Is My Name Written There

To him that overcomes, O glorious hope

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Tune: ["To him that overcomes," O glorious hope]
Published in 1 hymnal

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Representative Text

1 “To him that overcomes,” O glorious hope,
O promise sweet and sure!
The triumph that is won thru tears and blood,
Forever shall endure,
Forever shall endure.

Refrain:
“His name is in the Book of Life!”
Shall I that promise share?
Shall I at last be victor in the strife?
Is my name written there?
Is my name written there?

2 “To him that overcomes,” my soul be strong!
The strife is not in vain;
The weary sentry watch, the long, long march,
The test of fire and pain,
The test of fire and pain. [Refrain]

3 “To him that overcomes,” no chance or change
That record shall destroy;
Beyond the changing years there still unroll,
Eternities of joy,
Eternities of joy. [Refrain]

Source: Hymns for Today: for Sunday Schools, Young People's Societies, The Church, The Home, Community Welfare Associations, and Patriotic Meetings #225

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 >

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First Line: To him that overcomes, O glorious hope
Title: Is My Name Written There
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Language: English
Refrain First Line: His name is in the Book of Life!
Publication Date: 1920
Copyright: Public Domain

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