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Wonder Hymns of Faith
Publication Date: 1923 Publisher: The Standard Publishing Company Publication Place: Cincinnati, Oh. Editors: Chas. R. Scoville; W. E. M. Hackleman; The Standard Publishing Company; J. E. Sturgis
Wonder Hymns of Faith
I Need Thee Every Hour
Author: Mrs. Annie S. Hawks Appears in 986 hymnals First Line: I need Thee ev'ry hour Refrain First Line: I need Thee, O I need Thee Used With Tune: [I need Thee ev'ry hour]
I Need Thee Every Hour
Come, Thou Almighty King
Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 1,800 hymnals Used With Tune: [Come, Thou Almighty King]
Come, Thou Almighty King
Lead, Kindly Light
Author: J. H. Newman Appears in 1,235 hymnals First Line: Lead, kindly Light, amid th'encircling gloom Used With Tune: [Lead, kindly Light, amid th'encircling gloom]
Lead, Kindly Light
[Beneath the cross of Jesus]
Appears in 395 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Frederick C. Maker Incipit: 55546 53123 443 Used With Text: Beneath the Cross of Jesus
[Beneath the cross of Jesus]
[O listen to our wondrous story]
Appears in 141 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. Owen Incipit: 15651 76553 56217 Used With Text: What Did He Do?
[O listen to our wondrous story]
[Nearer, my God, to Thee]
Appears in 1,011 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lowell Mason Incipit: 32116 65132 32116 Used With Text: Nearer, My God, to Thee
[Nearer, my God, to Thee]
Faith of Our Fathers
Author: Frederick W. Faber Hymnal: WHoF1923 #1 (1923) First Line: Faith of our fathers! living still Languages: English Tune Title: [Faith of our fathers! living still]
Faith of Our Fathers
Not One Shall Seem a Stranger
Author: Mrs. C. D. Martin Hymnal: WHoF1923 #3 (1923) First Line: Not one shall seem a stranger, though never seen before Refrain First Line: The saints shall know each other Languages: English Tune Title: [Not one shall seem a stranger, though never seen before]
Not One Shall Seem a Stranger
W. S. Pitts
1830 - 1918 Person Name: Dr. Wm. S. Pitts Hymnal Number: 187 Composer of "[There's a church in the valley by the wild-wood]" in Wonder Hymns of Faith William Savage Pitts MD USA 1830-1918. Born at Yates, NY, the son of Puritans, he was the 8th of nine children. He had musical ability from an early age, taking formal music lessons from a graduate of the Boston Handel & Hadyn Society. At age 19, he traveled with his family to Rock County, WI, where he worked as a rural music schoolteacher in Union, WI. He taught for several years, there and at singing schools, and for brass bands, composing much of their music. In 1857 he traveled to Fredericksburg, IA, to visit his fiancee, Ann Eliza Warren, a teacher. Along the way he stopped his horse-drawn wagon at Bradford, IA, to rest. He walked across a field and saw a picturesque wooded valley formed by the Cedar River. Viewing the spot, he envisioned a church building there. He couldn’’t get the image out of his mind. Returning home to WI, he wrote out the words to a poem about the envisioned scene, calling it “Church in the wildwood”, for his own sake. He was then at rest about it. In 1862, he was married in Union, WI, and he and his wife moved to Fredericksburg to be near her elderly parents. Upon returning to Iowa, Pitts stopped along the route at the same location he had five years before to see it again. He was surprised to see a little church being built, and being painted brown. He met with the builders and asked why it was being painted brown, finding out that it was the cheapest paint they could find.. money being tight. The church builders, learning about his poem written several years earlier, asked him to bring his church choir to the dedication and sing a dedicatory song. In 1863 he did so. This was the first time the song was sung in public. The Pitts remained at Fredersicksburg, IA, for 44 years and had five children: Nellie, Grace, Alice, William, and Kate. Pitts served as mayor of Fredericksburg for seven years, as school treasurer for 26 years, wrote a biographical local history, and was a Master Freemason. In 1865 Pitts moved to Chicago to enroll at Rush Medical College. While there, to pay expenses, he offered several songs he had written to a music publisher, who chose his song “Little brown church in the vale”, and he sold the rights to his song for $25. He completed medical school, graduating in 1868, but the song was largely forgotten for several decades. Pitts practiced medicine in Fredericksburg until 1906. His wife died in 1886, and he remarried to Martha Amelia Pierce Grannis in 1887. They moved to Clarion, IA, in 1906. She died in 1909. Pitts then moved to Brooklyn, NY, to be with his son, William, who was working for the U. S. War Department. Pitts joined Fredericksburg’s Baptist Church in 1871, then the Congregational Church in Clarion, IA, in 1906, and later the Dyker Heights Congregational Church in Brooklyn, NY, in 1909. He occasionally performed his most famous song. He died at Brooklyn, NY, but was buried in Fredericksburg, IA.
John Perry
W. S. Pitts
George A. Minor
1845 - 1904 Hymnal Number: 92 Composer of "[Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness]" in Wonder Hymns of Faith George A. Minor was a native of Richmond, Virginia. He was an active member of the First Baptist church and led the singing in the Sunday school of that church. He composed several Sunday school hymns. He worked for the Hume-Minor Company, a piano and music dealer, and for the Mason-Hamlin Company,a piano manufacturer.
Dianne Shapiro, excerpted from obituary in "Richmond Times-Dispatch," January 31, 1904
George A. Minor
Mrs. C. H. Morris
1862 - 1929 Person Name: Mrs. C. H. M. Hymnal Number: 110 Author of "Sweeter as the Years Go By" in Wonder Hymns of Faith Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by."
Mary Louise VanDyke
Mrs. C. H. Morris
