My Starred Hymns
My Hymnals
My Purchased Files
Planning worship?
Check out our sister site, ZeteoSearch.org,
for 20+ additional resources related to your search.
- |
User Links
Search Results
Western Style Songs. Vol. 1
Publication Date: 1958 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House Publication Place: Grand Rapids, Mich. Editors: Robert J. Hughes; Zondervan Publishing House
Western Style Songs. Vol. 1
Old Time Religion
Appears in 328 hymnals First Line: It was good for our mothers Refrain First Line: Tis the old time religion Used With Tune: [It was good for our mothers]
Old Time Religion
Sweet Hour of Prayer
Author: W. W. Walford Appears in 1,313 hymnals First Line: Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer Used With Tune: [Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer]
Sweet Hour of Prayer
Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Appears in 119 hymnals First Line: I am weak but thou art strong Used With Tune: [I am weak but thou art strong]
Just a Closer Walk with Thee
[I am weak but thou art strong]
Appears in 97 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. J. Hughes Incipit: 55635 44217 56165 Used With Text: Just a Closer Walk with Thee
[I am weak but thou art strong]
[It was good for our mothers]
Appears in 214 hymnals Incipit: 55611 16511 12232 Used With Text: Old Time Religion
[It was good for our mothers]
[Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer]
Appears in 561 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. G. Bradbury Incipit: 13455 67165 33212 Used With Text: Sweet Hour of Prayer
[Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer]
No sunset in God's tomorrow
Author: Keith Whitford Hymnal: WSSV1958 #1 (1958) First Line: There'll be no sunset in God's tomorrow Tune Title: [There'll be no sunset in God's tomorrow]
No sunset in God's tomorrow
Back to the prairies
Author: Oswald J. Smith Hymnal: WSSV1958 #2 (1958) First Line: I want to go back to the prairies Tune Title: [I want to go back to the prairies]
Back to the prairies
When God Dips His Love in My Heart
Author: Cleavant Derricks Hymnal: WSSV1958 #3 (1958) First Line: When God dips his pen of love in my heart Tune Title: [When God dips his pen of love in my heart]
When God Dips His Love in My Heart
William W. Walford
1772 - 1850 Person Name: W. W. Walford Hymnal Number: 33 Author of "Sweet Hour of Prayer" in Western Style Songs. Vol. 1 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
William B. Bradbury
1816 - 1868 Person Name: Wm. G. Bradbury Hymnal Number: 33 Composer of "[Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer]" in Western Style Songs. Vol. 1 William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life.
John Perry
William B. Bradbury
J. Edwin Orr
1912 - 1987 Hymnal Number: 30 Author of "Cleanse Me" in Western Style Songs. Vol. 1 Rv James Edwin Orr MA ThD EdD PhD United Kingdom/USA. Born at Belfast, Northern Ireland, son of a jeweler with both British and American citizenship (so his children did as well), he studied at the College of Technology, Belfast, Ireland. After spending some years as a baker, he began evangelizing in Britian and in Europe. In 1937 he married Ivy Carol Carlson, and they had a daughter: Eileen. After their marriage, the Orrs evangelized in Australia (1939), China, Canada, South America, and the U.S. In 1939 he enrolled at Northwest University, and in 1940 was ordained into the Baptist Christian ministry at Newark, NJ. He received a MA from Northwest University in 1941 and a ThD from Northern Baptist Seminary in 1943. During WWII he served as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force in the Pacific region. During these years he also wrote several accounts of his preaching tours. After the war he continued his studies and took his PhD at Oxford University in 1948, with his thesis on the second evangelical awakening in Britain. In 1949 he and his wife made the U.S. their permanent base and continued to travel the world promoting church revival and renewal. They evangelized in 150 countries on several continents. In 1966 he became a professor at the School of World Missions, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. In 1971 he received his EdD degree from UCLA. He remained at Fuller until 1981., and as professor emeritus thereafter. He also received honorary degrees from an Indian seminary and the university of South Africa. Billy Graham wrote: “Dr J Edwn Orr, in my opinion, is one of the greatest authorities on the history of religious revivals in the Protestant world.” From 1951 on he was influential in Campus Crusade for Christ, and was one of its five original board members. He authored 40+ works, mostly on revival work. He also wrote a few hymn lyrics. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the American Geographical Society, the Royal Historical Society, and the Royal Society of Literature. He died at Ridgecrest, NC. Burial: Camarillo, CA.
John Perry
J. Edwin Orr
