Short Name: | Daniel Webster Crist |
Full Name: | Crist, D. W. (Daniel Webster), 1857-1929 |
Birth Year: | 1857 |
Death Year: | 1929 |
Born: November 28, 1857, New Chambersburg, Ohio.
Died: March 24, 1929, Alliance, Ohio.
Buried: Moultrie Chapel Cemetery, Moultrie, Ohio.
Son of Robert Crist and Mary Ruff Crist, Daniel graduated from Ohio Northern University in 1882, and taught school in Columbiana and Stark County, Ohio, for 14 years. He became superintendent of the Osnaburg grade school in 1880, and for three years was superintendent at New Franklin. In 1901, he was elected to the Ohio state legislature, and became a state senator in 1905.
Crist was composing as early as 1888, and at least through 1910, when he scored the FLOWER GIRL WALTZ. He worked for 30 years as a successful music publisher, starting in Moultrie, Ohio, where he also taught, farmed, and in New Alexander, served as a church music director and Sunday school superintendent. In 1915, he moved to Alliance, Ohio (where he became president of the Peoples Bank of Alliance). His works include:
The Evergreen Waltz
Joy and Praise for Sunday Schools, with R. A. Glenn (Cincinnati, Ohio: H. L. Benham & Company, 1886)
Gospel Gleanings, 1886
Victory of Song (Moultrie, Ohio: D. W. Crist, 1892)
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Tunes by Daniel Webster Crist (63)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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[All the temptations that try us] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 3 | 55555 56172 22133 |
[Are you marching, patient marching] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 55111 23212 33333 |
[Beautiful name of Jesus] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 3 | 33343 21222 12333 |
[Pleasures that earth can give] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 6 | 32155 53216 66176 |
[Blessed Jesus, guide my feet] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 3 | 55536 65444 65431 |
[But a little while, O ye Christian toiler] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 54565 12316 17777 |
[By and by will end on the silent strand] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | |
[Camping in the wilderness] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 33333 55355 33233 |
[Children may sing of the Savior above] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 55511 13321 12222 |
[Christ the Conqueror lives triumphant] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 34311 21651 13322 |
[Come, let us all unite to sing] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 33455 66523 45433 |
[Ein Jüngling irrt im Dunkel] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 12334 32165 11321 |
[Ewig-Vater, deine Güte] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 34556 55333 54323 |
[Gehet ihr nach dem gelobten Land dort oben] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 34555 55512 31556 |
[Go tell them of Jesus across the wave] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 3 | 55555 43466 65555 |
[God, pity the children, barefooted and cold] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 55433 21666 55543 |
[Halte still, halt' still und ruhe] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 55112 17666 61267 |
[Hark! wherever you wander, loving voices call] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 3 | 55565 32116 51111 |
[He giveth His beloved sleep] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 12333 22113 55533 |
[Herr Jesus, mein Hirte, zu dir darf ich flieh'n] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 12333 33455 55432 |
[Hosanna be the children's song] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 13213 54356 65322 |
[I dare not idle stand] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 4 | 51112 35666 71655 |
[I know there's a rest for the good that labor here] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 51111 12333 33334 |
[Ich ging im grünen Walde] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 51136 53565 43251 |
[I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 34553 11631 53234 |
[Ich wäre gern ein kleines Licht] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 55331 16665 33125 |
[Ja, es fließet eine Quelle] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 33333 65322 23432 |
[Jesus, I have need of Thee] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 35432 16511 33223 |
[Jesus of Nazareth, to Bethlehem came] | Daniel W. Christ (Composer) | 5 | 55553 12165 33331 |
[Jesus, we have heard thee calling] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 33432 32171 23443 |
[Jewels for Thy diadem] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 35556 53234 53355 |
[Just beside the river angels wait] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 33321 35656 66653 |
[Long, long from the fold that I wandered] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 3 | 55651 55766 76545 |
[Lord, I hear of showers of blessing] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 55171 23334 53132 |
[Mein Heiland, nun erkenne ich] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 53343 21223 21322 |
[Müde von des Tages Lasten] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 34315 65323 46543 |
[My earthly work is ending] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | |
NEWFOUNDLAND | Daniel Webster Crist (Composer) | 3 | 54333 43322 23446 |
[O wilt thou bend to God thine ear] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | |
[Oft our feet grow worn and weary] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | |
[O speed thee on the heavenly way] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 51111 23331 21232 |
[O the white robed throng] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 55111 34531 11222 |
[On this sacred day we meet] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 3 | 12334 32712 23213 |
[One thing I know, not long ago] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 54531 77617 67565 |
[Over the valleys, hilltops and mountains] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 6 | 53215 61665 51231 |
[Ruh' find't die müde Seel'] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 53333 31211 65133 |
[Sing those beautiful themes again] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 4 | 55345 65561 21555 |
[Some day I'll enter the pearly gate] | D. W. Christ (Composer) | 3 | 51113 21655 65312 |
[Streue Sonnschein, streue Sonnschein] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 12332 15516 53212 |
[The fields are all white, and the reapers are few] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 51111 71216 55111 |
[The Lord of life is knocking at the door] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 53331 21165 22123 |
[There's a beautiful faith] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 55333 31121 65551 |
[There's so much on earth to tempt the soul to evil] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 54333 33334 53432 |
[Think of the harm it has done in the past] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 53453 21671 44321 |
[Thought by thought we are building for eternity] | Daniel Webster Crist (Composer) | 2 | 12333 23454 32223 |
[Throwing Out the Life-Line] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 3 | 55111 11123 11222 |
[We have heard Rhy gentle voice, O loving Savior] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 12333 34321 61443 |
[Wenn der Meister mich ruft, bin ich fertig] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 34555 65451 53344 |
[When we walk amid the shadows] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 54333 21235 61165 |
[When we've crossed the jasper sea] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 54333 33433 22234 |
[Where the pearly gates are gleaming] | D. W. Christ (Composer) | 2 | 55111 11765 65543 |
[Work for the Lord in His harvest wide] | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 3 | 11113 45312 34531 |
[Zion stands with hills surrounded] (Crist) | D. W. Crist (Composer) | 2 | 34513 21616 51232 |