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| Short Name: | Aimee Semple McPherson |
| Full Name: | McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 |
| Birth Year: | 1890 |
| Death Year: | 1944 |
McPherson, Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy Semple. (Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, October 9, 1890--September 26, 1944, Oakland, California). Foursquare. With no formal education beyond high school this remarkable and controversial woman founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel denomination. Pentacostalist missionary to China, 1917; itinerant Pentacostalist preacher in U.S. 1918-1923; pastor of Angelus Temple (Foursquare), Los Angeles, Calif. 1923-1944. Author of books on the Foursquare Church and composer of five oratorios. Evangelistic zeal is evident in her many published hymns. Full length biographical studies:
Thomas, Lately. (1970). Storming heaven : the lives and turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple McPherson. New York: William Morrow & Co.
McPherson, Aimee Semple. (1973). The Story of My Life. Waco, Tex.: Word Books.
--Terry W. York, DNAH Archives
Letter to the editor from daughter Roberta Semple Salter describes the drive from New York to Los Angeles in 1918. (Smithsonian, November 1980). DNAH Archives
Tunes by Aimee Semple McPherson (65) | As | Instances | Incipit |
|---|---|---|---|
| [All over the earth men are sighing] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 32171 76551 35 |
| [Arise, ye sons of men, arise] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 51534 56543 56 |
| [Cast ye your crowns at the blest Savior's feet] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 33456 71765 456 |
| [Christ led the way to Calvary] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 53456 54432 3543 |
| [Christ, the Light of the Ages] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 32344 56733 4 |
| [Close to its Sunset Hour] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 4 | 32342 54334 25 |
| [Come, now, ye weary and halt and blind] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 53451 23432 1 |
| [Crowns are made in crucibles] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 33232 11111 |
| [Death shall be swallow'd in victory] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 17654 35544 |
| [Forth to the battle, we march a mighty host] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 17765 51171 2 |
| [Forward march, O Foursquare Host] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 4 | 34567 17234 56753 |
| [Foursquare we stand for the living Word] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 33333 21651 1352 |
| [From the"Crossroads of Life" there leads a Highway] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 51333 33232 15533 |
| [Have you found a friend in Christ the King?] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 34534 33267 12 |
| [Hold the Foursquare Fortress firm] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 4 | 33232 31511 217 |
| [Holy and righteous Father, humbly we come to Thee] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 33343 65234 323 |
| [I claim the promise, Christ my Lord] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 53456 54442 34766 |
| [I have found a charmed circle] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 12321 65312 33333 |
| [I plead Thy Blood, O Christ] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 32343 32225 4323 |
| [I'm sailing o'er the sea of Life] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 33332 36453 55444 |
| [In a quiet dusky corner] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 12332 36512 3 |
| [It was on the day of Pentecost] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 34517 65456 534 |
| [It's raining, it's raining] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 13553 11117 665 |
| [I've found the key to Paradise] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 53341 33252 |
| [Life's first years pass away] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 34545 13455 451 |
| [Lord Jesus Thy name, is sweet in my ears] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 51123 34543 21 |
| [Lost was my soul on sin's mountain] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 16516 53316 51 |
| [Merciful and gracious] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 33533 22552 21 |
| [Not all the efforts of our hands] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 33343 22334 56544 |
| [O, Cross of Christ, and can it be] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 55443 32135 43 |
| [O man, thous't time for pleasure] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 51217 76662 32117 |
| [O mighty God upon us pour] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 51234 56543 2171 |
| [O Precious Babe of Bethlehem] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 51234 56565 4412 |
| [O that it might be no more I] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 32343 54335 4323 |
| [O is there no balm in Gilead?] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 55332 17125 54432 |
| [On! On! Up the Foursquare way!] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 33324 32111 17215 |
| [On the mountain of God, stands the mansion of Love] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 34535 61231 43333 |
| [Once came the little children] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 11235 65132 12 |
| [Once I knew a little boy] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 55171 23121 234 |
| [Pass the joyful news along] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 55543 23333 43216 |
| [Pitchers, Pitchers, Here bring your empty pitchers] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 35311 12166 5 |
| [See yonder sun how fast he run] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 16151 61511 77667 |
| [Sing, winds a lullaby] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 17656 71715 67 |
| [So far as the East is from the West] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 33335 55412 |
| [Some folks believe that when men once trust in God] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 11232 16216 5 |
| [Speak Thou, O Lord; thy servant will obey] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 33451 71432 2234 |
| [The Blood of my Saviour, by faith I now see] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 33234 33654 5 |
| [The Lord planted a garden deep within my heart] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 53232 15617 65 |
| [The world is filled with sorrow] (McPherson) | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 53343 32226 543 |
| [There came to this earth, in the dear, long ago] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 33234 34654 5 |
| [There's a bright flag waving in the sky] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 34532 16511 23343 |
| [Thirstest Thou, O Son of God] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 33435 43556 5445 |
| [Tho' stars from their heavenly orbits may stray] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 53231 77612 345 |
| ['Tis falling on the housetops] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 53333 33565 654 |
| [To thy tents! to thy tents! O Israel!] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 35151 31353 1556 |
| [We will go with our young and with our old] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 51323 65123 |
| [When I go home to heaven] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 33561 33333 3 |
| [When Naaman the leper came of old] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 51345 14433 32 |
| [When on the green banks of old Jordan's stream] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 53213 21216 1 |
| [When our God thunders, the hills and mountains fall] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 13333 34343 3 |
| [When the weary and the lame] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 34553 21712 1716 |
| [While walking in the lowlands] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 55545 65311 213 |
| [Who's that lying in the manger low?] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 55327 1222 |
| [Why are they whipping my Jesus?] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 3 | 32365 32656 7443 |
| [With the scarlet thread of Redemption] | Aimee Semple McPherson (Composer) | 2 | 32353 17672 71212 |
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