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I Have Been Alone With Jesus
Appears in 15 hymnals First Line: I have been alone with Jesus with my head upon His breast Refrain First Line: I've been alone with Jesus Used With Tune: [I have been alone with Jesus with my head upon His breast]
I Have Been Alone With Jesus
[I have been alone with Jesus with my head upon his breast]
Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mrs. R. R. Forman Incipit: 56714 32671 12523 Used With Text: I Have Been Alone With Jesus
[I have been alone with Jesus with my head upon his breast]
[I have been alone with Jesus]
Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jas. M. Kirk Incipit: 33335 32122 2123 Used With Text: Leaning on Jesus
[I have been alone with Jesus]
[I have been alone with Jesus]
Appears in 65 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. J. Vail Incipit: 55111 11771 22231 Used With Text: Alone with Jesus
[I have been alone with Jesus]
I Have Been Alone With Jesus
Hymnal: Favorites Number 3 #19 (1951) First Line: I have been alone with Jesus, with my head upon his breast Refrain First Line: I’ve been alone with Jesus Lyrics: 1 I have been alone with Jesus, with my head upon his breast,
For I was so very weary, that I waited there to rest.
I have been alone with Jesus, and he bade me stay awhile,
And I felt it very precious, in the sunshine of his smile.
Refrain:
I’ve been alone with Jesus,
My blessed, blessed Jesus,
I’ve been alone with Jesus,
In the sunshine of his smile.
2 With a trembling heart I told him, while with joy I lingered there,
All the burden of my sorrow and my heavy weight of care;
How the voice of Satan’s whisp’rings often called me into sin,
And I asked him if I might not stay forever there with Him. [Refrain]
3 Shall I tell you what he told me, while I still was waiting there?
For it took away my trouble, and it took away my care.
O he told me how he lov’d me, tho’ a wayward, erring child,
And I felt so very happy, as he look’d on me and smil’d. [Refrain]
4 Then he told me I was welcome, evermore with him to stay,
And he said that he would never cast his loving child away,
“Lo!” he said, “I am thy Saviour, as a rock I firmly stand,
Come and rest beneath my shadow, in this weary, thirsty land.” [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [I have been alone with Jesus]
I Have Been Alone With Jesus
I Have Been Alone With Jesus
Hymnal: Hymns We Love, for Sunday Schools and All Devotional Meetings #46 (1907) First Line: I have been alone with Jesus with my head upon Refrain First Line: I’ve been alone with Jesus Lyrics: 1 I have been alone with Jesus with my head upon His breast,
For I was so very weary that I waited there to rest.
I have been alone with Jesus and He bade me stay awhile,
And I felt it very precious in the sunshine of His smile.
Refrain:
I’ve been alone with Jesus,
My blessed, blessed Jesus,
I’ve been alone with Jesus,
In the sunshine of his smile.
2 With a trembling heart I told Him while with joy I lingered there,
All the burden of my sorrow and my heavy weight of care;
How the voice of Satan’s whisp’rings often called me into sin,
And I asked him if I might not say forever there with Him. [Refrain]
3 Shall I tell you what He told me while I still was waiting there,
For it took away my troubles and it took away my care.
Oh! He told me how He loved me tho’ a wayward, erring child,
And I felt so very happy as He looked on me and smiled. [Refrain]
4 Then He told me I was welcome evermore with him to stay,
And He said that He would never cast His loving child away,
Lo! He said, I am thy Saviour, as a rock I firmly stand—
Come and rest beneath my shadow in this weary, thirsty land. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [I have been alone with Jesus]
I Have Been Alone With Jesus
I Have Been Alone With Jesus
Hymnal: Hall-Mack Company's Book of Sacred Selections for Men's Voices #48 (1912) First Line: I have been alone with Jesus with my head upon his breast Refrain First Line: I've been alone with Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [I have been alone with Jesus with my head upon his breast]
I Have Been Alone With Jesus
Ira David Sankey
1840 - 1908 Person Name: I. D. S. Arranger of "Alone with Jesus" in Sacred Songs No. 2 Sankey, Ira David, was born in Edinburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1840, of Methodist parents. About 1856 he removed with his parents to New Castle, Pennsylvania, where he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Four years afterwards he became the Superintendent of a large Sunday School in which he commenced his career of singing sacred songs and solos. Mr. Moody met with him and heard him sing at the International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association, at Indianapolis, and through Mr. Moody's persuasion he joined him in his work at Chicago. After some two or three years' work in Chicago, they sailed for England on June 7, 1872, and held their first meeting at York a short time afterwards, only eight persons being present. Their subsequent work in Great Britain and America is well known.
Mr. Sankey's special duty was the singing of sacred songs and solos at religious gatherings, a practice which was in use in America for some time before he adopted it. His volume of Sacred Songs and Solos is a compilation from various sources, mainly American and mostly in use before. Although known as Sankey and Moody’s Songs, only one song, "Home at last, thy labour done" is by Mr. Sankey, and not one is by Mr. Moody. Mr. Sankey supplied several of the melodies. The English edition of the Sacred Songs & Solos has had an enormous sale; and the work as a whole is very popular for Home Mission services. The Songs have been translated into several languages.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Pseudonymns:
Harry S. Lower
Rian A. Dykes
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Sankey, I. D., p. 994, i. During the past fifteen years Mr. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos have had a very large sale, which has justified him in increasing the number of songs and hymns, including " New Hymns and Solos," to 1200. In 1906 he published My Life and Sacred Songs (London : Morgan & Scott). In addition to the "Story of his Own Life," the work contains an account of the most popular of his solos, with interesting reminiscences of the spiritual awakening of many who were influenced through his singing of them in public. In this respect it corresponds in some measure with G. J. Stevenson's Methodist Hymn Book, &c, 1883 (p. 1094, i.). It is an addition to the Sacred Songs and Solos, which will be held in esteem by many. In addition to his hymn, noted on p. 994, ii., Mr. Sankey gives details of the following:—
1. Out of the shadow-land into the sunshine. [Heaven Anticipated.] Mr. Sankey's account of this hymn is:—
"I wrote this hymn specially for the memorial service held for Mr. Moody in Carnegie Hall, where 1 also sang it as a solo. It is the last sacred song of which I wrote both the words and music. The idea was suggested by Mr. Moody's last words, 'Earth recedes; heaven opens before me . . . God is calling me, and I must go.' On account of its peculiar association with my fellow-labourer in the Gospel for so many years, the words are here given in full."
The hymn follows on p. 185, in 3 stanzas of 4 lines and a chorus.
2. Rejoice! Rejoice! our King is coming, [Advent.] Mr. Sankey writes concerning this hymn:—
"During one of my trips to Great Britain on the SS. City of Rome a storm raged on the sea. The wind was howling through the rigging, and waves like mountains of foam were breaking over the bow of the vessel. A great fear had fallen upon the passengers. When the storm was at its worst, we all thought we might soon go to the bottom of the sea. The conviction came to me that the Lord would be with us iu the trying hour, and sitting down in the reading room, I composed this hymn. Before reaching England the tune had formed itself in my mind, and on arriving in London I wrote it out, and had it published in Sacred Songs and Solos, where it is No. 524 in the edition. of 1888.
From Mr. Sankey's autobiographical sketch we gather that he was born at Edinburgh, in Western Pennsylvania, Aug. 28, 1840, joined Mr. Moody in 1871, and visited England for the first time in 1873. The original of the Sacred Songs, &c, of 23 pieces only, was offered as a gift to the London publishers of P. Phillips's Hallowed Song, and declined by them. It was subsequently accepted by Mr. K. O. Morgan, of Morgan & Scott, and is now a volume of 1200 hymns.
From a return kindly sent us by Messrs. Morgan & Scott, we find that the various issues of the Sacred Songs and Solos were:—
In 1873, 24 pp.; 1874, 72 pp. ; 1876, 153 hymns; 1877, 271 hymns; 1881, 441 hymns; 1888, 750 hymns; 1903, 1200 hymns.
In addition, The Christian Choir, which is generally associated with the Sacred Songs and Solos, was issued in 1884 with 75 hymns, and in 1896 with 281. The New Hymns & Solos, by the same firm, were published in 1888.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Ira David Sankey
S. J. Vail
1818 - 1884 Composer of "[I have been alone with Jesus]" in Sacred Songs No. 2 In his youth Silas Jones Vail learned the hatter's trade at Danbury, Ct. While still a young man, he went to New York and took employment in the fashionable hat store of William H. Beebe. Later he established himself in business as a hatter at 118 Fulton Street, where he was for many years successful. But the conditions of trade changed, and he could not change with them. After his failure in 1869 or 1870 he devoted his entire time and attention to music. He was the writer of much popular music for use in churches and Sunday schools. Pieces of music entitled "Scatter Seeds of Kindness," "Gates Ajar," "Close to Thee," "We Shall Sleep, but not Forever," and "Nothing but Leaves" were known to all church attendants twenty years ago. Fanny Crosby, the blind authoress, wrote expressly for him many of the verses he set to music.
--Vail, Henry H. (Henry Hobart). Genealogy of some of the Vail family descended from Jeremiah Vail at Salem, Mass., 1639, p. 234.
S. J. Vail
R. R. Forman
Person Name: Mrs. R. R. Forman Composer of "[I have been alone with Jesus]" in Hymns We Love, for Sunday Schools and All Devotional Meetings Early 20th Century
The Summy Company registered for copyright [for "Happy Birthday to You"] in 1935, crediting authors Preston Ware Orem and Mrs. R.R. Forman.
--www.princeton.edu/
R. R. Forman
