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Devotional Hymns
Publication Date: 1935 Publisher: Hope Pub. Co. Publication Place: Chicago Editors: Hope Pub. Co.
Devotional Hymns
It came upon the [a] midnight clear
Author: Edmund H. Sears, 1810-1876; Edmund Hamilton Sears Appears in 884 hymnals
It came upon the [a] midnight clear
The old time religion
Appears in 330 hymnals First Line: It was good for our fathers [mothers] [poor old Daniel] [the apostles] Refrain First Line: 'Tis the old time religion
The old time religion
Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear My voice ascending high
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 658 hymnals
Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear My voice ascending high
A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Hymnal: DH1935 #d1 (1935) Languages: English
A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify
A glory gilds the sacred page
Author: William Cowper Hymnal: DH1935 #d2 (1935) Languages: English
A glory gilds the sacred page
A mighty fortress is our God
Author: Frederic Henry Hedge; Martin Luther Hymnal: DH1935 #d3 (1935) Languages: English
A mighty fortress is our God
William W. Walford
1772 - 1850 Hymnal Number: d225 Author of "Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer" in Devotional Hymns 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.
William W. Walford
E. S. Elliott
1836 - 1897 Person Name: Emily E. S. Elliott Hymnal Number: d256 Author of "O come to my heart, Lord Jesus" in Devotional Hymns Elliott, Emily Elizabeth Steele, third daughter of the late Rev. E. B. Elliott, of Brighton, author of the Horae Apocalypticae was born at Brighton, and now [1887] lives in London. She has contributed hymns, some of which have obtained wide acceptance, to the choir manuals, and Additional Hymns, 1866 (Nos. 8, 34) for use in St. Mark's Church, Brighton; to the Church Missionary Juvenile Instructor, which she edited for six years. Her Chimes of Consecration, a volume of 70 hymns and poems, was published in 1873, and her Chimes for Daily Service in 1880. The latter contains 71 hymns in two parts. The second part of 48 hymns is also published separately as Under the Pillow, for use as a cheap large type hymn-book (with corresponding tune-book) for hospitals and infirmaries and the sick generally. Her hymn, “Let us keep the feast" (Holy Communion), was first published in The Feast of Sacrifice and The Feast of 'Remembrance, 1865, in 5 stanzas of 5 lines. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Elliott, Emily E. 8., p. 328, ii. The following additional hymns by Miss Elliott have recently come into common use:—
1. Brothers, sisters, pray for us. [Missionaries' Farewell.] Appeared in the C. M. Gleaner, Sept. 1896, p. 14?, and entitled "The Missionaries' Departing Petition." In the Church Miss. Hymn Book, 1899.
2. Rabboni, Master, we have heard. [Consecration of Self to Duty.] In theC. M. Gleaner, Dec. 1895, p. 195. It was sung for the first time at the Gleaners' Union Anniversary, 1895. In the Church Miss. Hymn Book, 1899.
3. Full consecration! heart and spirit yielded. [Full Consecration.] Given in Hymns of Consecration and Faith, 1902.
4. They come and go, the seasons fair, [Second Advent.] In the C. M. Gleaner, Nov. 1891, p. 172, as "What will be when the King comes?" It was sung for the first time at the Gleaners' Union Anniversary, Oct. 30, 1891. In the Church Miss. Hymn Book, 1899.
Miss Elliott was born at Brighton, July 22, 1836, and died at Mildmay, London, Aug. 3, 1897.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
E. S. Elliott
Jessie Brown Pounds
1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie H. Brown Pounds Hymnal Number: d15 Author of "Anywhere, anywhere, fear I cannot know" in Devotional Hymns 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 memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Jessie Brown Pounds
