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Cream of Song

Publication Date: 1906 Publisher: Pickett Pub. Co. Publication Place: Louisville, Ky. Editors: L. L. Pickett; O. B. Culpepper; Pickett Pub. Co.

Be a messenger

Author: E. Dee Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: To the sad at heart I will joy impart Refrain First Line: I will spread the news

I believe Jesus saves

Author: WIlliam McDonald Appears in 71 hymnals First Line: I am coming to Jesus for rest

I am trusting, Lord, in thee

Author: WIlliam McDonald Appears in 850 hymnals First Line: I am coming to the cross, I am poor

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Hymnal: CoS1906 #d1 (1906) Languages: English

My soul's found something

Author: Leander L. Pickett Hymnal: CoS1906 #d2 (1906) First Line: A cry is heard on every hand Languages: English

O come now, come now

Author: E. Dee Hymnal: CoS1906 #d3 (1906) First Line: A voice sweet and tender is pleading Languages: English

1868 - 1946 Hymnal Number: d14 Author of "The cloud and fire" in Cream of Song Charles Austin Miles USA 1868-1946. Born at Lakehurst, NJ, he attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of PA. He became a pharmacist. He married Bertha H Haagen, and they had two sons: Charles and Russell. In 1892 he abandoned his pharmacy career and began writing gospel songs. At first he furnished compositions to the Hall-Mack Publishing Company, but soon became editor and manager, where he worked for 37 years. He felt he was serving God better in the gospel song writing business, than as a pharmacist. He published the following song books: “New songs of the gospel” (1900), “The service of praise” (1900), “The voice of praise” (1904), “The tribute of song” (1904), “New songs of the gospel #2” (1905), “Songs of service” (1910), “Ideal Sunday school hymns” (1912). He wrote and/or composed 400+ hymns. He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

William W. Walford

1772 - 1850 Hymnal Number: d187 Author of "Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer" in Cream of Song William W. Walford, a blind preacher of England, is the author of the hymn beginning "Sweet hour of prayer." This hymn first appeared in print in the New York Observer September 13, 1845. The contributor who furnished the hymn says: "During my residence at Coleshill, Warwickshire, England, I became acquainted with W. W. Walford, the blind preacher, a man of obscure birth and connections and no education, but of strong mind and most retentive memory. In the pulpit he never failed to select a lesson well adapted to his subject, giving chapter and verse with unerring precision, and scarcely ever misplacing a word in his repetition of the Psalms, every part of the New Testament, the prophecies, and some of the histories, so as to have the reputation of knowing the whole Bible by heart." Rev. Thomas Salmon, who was settled as the pastor of the Congregational Church at Coleshill in 1838, remained until 1842, and then removed to the United States, is believed to have been the contributor who says of the hymn: "I rapidly copied the lines with my pencil as he uttered them, and send them for insertion in the Observer if you think them worthy of preservation." From: Nutter, C. S., & Tillett, W. F. (1911). The hymns and hymn writers of the church, an annotated edition of The Methodist hymnal. New York: Methodist Book Concern.