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Are You Building On the Rock?

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: Are you building on the Rock Refrain First Line: Are you hearing and obeying Used With Tune: [Are you building on the Rock]
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[Are you building on the Rock]

Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 55111 23112 22342 Used With Text: Are You Building On the Rock?
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[Are you building on the Rock]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Fred A. Fillmore Incipit: 35133 21356 54321 Used With Text: Building on the Rock
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[Are you building on the Rock]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. B. Herbert Used With Text: Building on the Rock
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Are You Building On the Rock?

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Hymns for Today #59 (1920) First Line: Are you building on the Rock Refrain First Line: Are you hearing and obeying Lyrics: 1 Are you building on the Rock, High above the sandy beach, Where no sudden wave can shock, Where no beating tide can reach? Refrain: Are you hearing and obeying? Are you working, watching, praying? Tell me, does your dwelling stand On the rock, or on the sand? 2 Like the tides years come and go; Tell me, are you very sure That they will not overthrow Much that seemed at first secure? [Refrain] 3 Lay with patience, faith and pray’r Your foundations, deep and wide; Build thereon with watchful care, Far above the angry tide. [Refrain] Scripture: Matthew 7:24-28 Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you building on the Rock]
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On the Rock of ages

Author: Jessie H. Brown Pounds Hymnal: The Eureka Highway Songs #d4 (1918) First Line: Are you building on the rock, high above the sandy beach Refrain First Line: Are you hearing and obeying
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Building on the Rock

Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Heart Songs #8 (1893) First Line: Are you building on the Rock Refrain First Line: Are you hearing and obeying? Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you building on the Rock]
Building on the Rock

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Author of "Are You Building On the Rock?" in Life Songs 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)
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Jessie H. Brown

Author of "Are You Building On the Rock?" in Grateful Praise See Pounds, Jessie Brown, 1861-1921
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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Are you building on the Rock]" in Life Songs James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry
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