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A Messenger for Jesus
Publication Date: 1913 Publisher: Florida Song Book Co. Publication Place: Titusville, Fla. Editors: W. F. Allen; Florida Song Book Co.
A Messenger for Jesus
Mother, will you watch for me
Author: W. F. Allen Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: A boy stood by his mother's bed Refrain First Line: O mother, will you watch for me
Mother, will you watch for me
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal
Author: Thomas Moore Appears in 1,061 hymnals First Line: Come, ye [you] disconsolate, where'er ye [you] languish
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal
Somebody's boy
Author: Floy S. Armstrong Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: Homeless and friendless he wanders today
Somebody's boy
Will you go, will you go, will you go to that beautiful land
Author: Jonathan Hall Hymnal: M4J1913 #d1 (1913) First Line: A beautiful land by faith I see Languages: English
Will you go, will you go, will you go to that beautiful land
Mother, will you watch for me
Author: W. F. Allen Hymnal: M4J1913 #d2 (1913) First Line: A boy stood by his mother's bed Refrain First Line: O mother, will you watch for me Languages: English
Mother, will you watch for me
As a volunteer
Author: W. S. Brown Hymnal: M4J1913 #d3 (1913) First Line: A call for loyal soldiers comes to one and all Refrain First Line: A volunteer for Jesus, a soldier true Languages: English
As a volunteer
Jeremiah Eames Rankin
1828 - 1904 Hymnal Number: d20 Author of "Tell it to Jesus" in A Messenger for Jesus Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy.
Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857. Another of his hymns is "Rest, rest, rest, brother rest." He died in 1904. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Rankin, J. 33., p. 951, ii. Dr. Rankin, b. in N. H. (not New Haven), and received his D.D. 1869, LL.D. 1889 from his Alma Mater. He was President for several years of Howard University, Washington, D.C. His publications included several volumes of Sermons, German-English Lyrics, Sacred and Secular, 1897; 2nd ed. 1898, &c. In addition to his hymns noted on p. 951, ii., he has written and published mainly in sheet form many others, the most important and best-known being:—
1. God be with you till we meet again. [Benediction.] Dr. Rankin's account of this hymn, supplied to us, in common with Mr. Brownlie, for his Hymns and H. Writers of The Church Hymnary, 1899, is: "It was written as a Christian good-bye, and first sung in the First Congregational Church, of which I was minister for fifteen years. We had Gospel meetings on Sunday nights, and our music was intentionally of the popular kind. I wrote the first stanza, and sent it to two gentlemen for music. The music which seemed to me to best suit the words was written by T. G. Tomer, teacher of public schools in New Jersey, at one time on the staff of General 0. 0. Howard. After receiving the music (which was revised by Dr. J. W. Bischoff, the organist of my church), I wrote the other stanzas." The hymn became at once popular, and has been translated into several languages. In America it is in numerous collections; and in Great Britain, in The Church Hymnary, 1898, Horder's Worship Song, 1905, The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, and others. It was left undated by Dr. Rankin, but I.D. Sankey gives it as 1882.
2. Beautiful the little hands. [Little ones for Jesus.] Given without date in Gloria Deo, New York, 1900.
Dr. Rankin's translations include versions of German, French, Latin, and Welsh hymns. His contributions to the periodical press have been numerous.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Jeremiah Eames Rankin
E. E. Hewitt
1851 - 1920 Person Name: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal Number: d78 Author of "He will not forsake you" in A Messenger for Jesus Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds.
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
E. E. Hewitt
Elvina M. Hall
1820 - 1889 Hymnal Number: d108 Author of "Jesus paid it all" in A Messenger for Jesus Hall, Elvina Mable, was born at Alexandria, Virginia, in 1818; and was married, first to Mr. Richard Hall, and then, in 1885, to the Rev. Thomas Myers. Her hymn, "I hear the Saviour say" (Christ All and in All), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878, is somewhat popular in Great Britain and America. It was "written on the fly-leaf of the New Lute of Zion, in the choir of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore, in the spring of 1865."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Elvina M. Hall
