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Nearer Home
Author: Alice Carey Appears in 90 hymnals First Line: O'er the hills the sun is setting Refrain First Line: Nearer, nearer Used With Tune: [O'er the hills the sun is setting]
Nearer Home
[O’er the hills the sun is setting]
Appears in 51 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Flotow Incipit: 34653 12313 35431 Used With Text: Nearer Home
[O’er the hills the sun is setting]
NEARER HOME
Appears in 11 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jas. McGranahan Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 54533 23111 11265 Used With Text: Nearer Home
NEARER HOME
[O'er the hills the sun is setting]
Appears in 15 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Von Weber Incipit: 55365 17671 76536 Used With Text: Nearer Home
[O'er the hills the sun is setting]
One Day Nearer Home
Hymnal: Gospel Praise Book. #20 (1885) First Line: O'er the hills the sun is setting Refrain First Line: Nearer, nearer Lyrics: 1 O’er the hills the sun is setting,
And the eve is drawing on;
Slowly drops the gentle twilight,
For another day is gone.
Gone for aye—its race is over;
Soon the darker shades will come;
Still ‘tis sweet to know at evening
That we’re one day nearer home.
Chorus:
Nearer, nearer,
One day nearer home;
Nearer, nearer,
One day nearer home.
2 Worn and weary, oft the pilgrim
Hails the setting of the sun,
For the goal is one day nearer,
And his journey nearly done;
Thus we feel when o’er the life’s desert
Heart and sandal-sore we roam;
As the twilight gathers o’er us,
We are one day nearer home. [Chorus]
3 Nearer home! yes, one day nearer
To our Father’s house on high,
To the green fields and the fountains
Of the land beyond the sky;
For the heavens grow brighter o’er us,
And the lamps hand in the dome,
And our tents are pitched still closer,
For we’re one day nearer home. [Chorus]
4 “One day nearer,” sings the mar’ner,
As he glides the water o’er,
While the light is softly dying
On his distant native shore;
Thus the Christian on life’s ocean,
As his life-boat cuts the foam,
In the evening cries with rapture,
“I am one day nearer home.” [Chorus]
Topics: Close of Worship; Growth in Grace; Christian Experience; Heaven Languages: English Tune Title: [O'er the hills the sun is setting]
One Day Nearer Home
One Day Nearer
Hymnal: Joyful Songs #52 (1875) First Line: O'er the hills the sun is setting Lyrics: 1 O'er the hills the sun is setting,
And the eve is drawing on,
Slowly drops the gentle twilight,
For another day is gone;
Gone for aye its race is over,
Soon the darker shades will come,
Still 'tis sweet to know at even,
We are one day nearer home.
2 "One day nearer" sings the sailor,
As he glides the waters o'er,
While the light is softly dying,
On his distant native shore;
So the Christian on life's ocean,
As his life boat cuts the foam,
In the ev'ning cries with rapture,
"I am one day nearer home."
3 Nearer home! Yes, one day nearer
To our Father's home on high,
To the green fields and the fountains,
Of the land beyond the sky;
For the heav'n grows brighter o'er us,
And the lamps hang in the dome,
And our tents are pitched still closer,
For we're one day nearer home. Languages: English Tune Title: [O'er the hills the sun is setting]
One Day Nearer
Nearer My Home
Author: Unknown Hymnal: The Gospel in Song #4 (1885) First Line: O'er the hills the sun is setting Refrain First Line: Nearer home! yes, one day nearer Languages: English Tune Title: [O'er the hills the sun is setting]
Nearer My Home
James McGranahan
1840 - 1907 Person Name: Jas. McGranahan Composer of "NEARER HOME" in The Christian Sunday School Hymnal James McGranahan USA 1840-1907. Born at West Fallowfield, PA, uncle of Hugh McGranahan, and son of a farmer, he farmed during boyhood. Due to his love of music his father let him attend singing school, where he learned to play the bass viol. At age 19 he organized his first singing class and soon became a popular teacher in his area of the state. He became a noted musician and hymns composer. His father was reluctant to let him pursue this career, but he soon made enough money doing it that he was able to hire a replacement farmhand to help his father while he studied music. His father, a wise man, soon realized how his son was being used by God to win souls through his music. He entered the Normal Music School at Genesco, NY, under William B Bradbury in 1861-62. He met Miss Addie Vickery there. They married in 1863, and were very close to each other their whole marriage, but had no children. She was also a musician and hymnwriter in her own right. For a time he held a postmaster’s job in Rome, PA. In 1875 he worked for three years as a teacher and director at Dr. Root’s Normal Music Institute. He because well-known and successful as a result, and his work attracted much attention. He had a rare tenor voice, and was told he should train for the operatic stage. It was a dazzling prospect, but his friend, Philip Bliss, who had given his wondrous voice to the service of song for Christ for more than a decade, urged him to do the same. Preparing to go on a Christmas vacation with his wife, Bliss wrote McGranahan a letter about it, which McGranahan discussed with his friend Major Whittle. Those two met in person for the first time at Ashtubula, OH, both trying to retrieve the bodies of the Bliss’s, who died in a bridge-failed train wreck. Whittle thought upon meeting McGranahan, that here is the man Bliss has chosen to replace him in evangelism. The men returned to Chicago together and prayed about the matter. McGranahan gave up his post office job and the world gained a sweet gospel singer/composer as a result. McGranahan and his wife, and Major Whittle worked together for 11 years evangelizing in the U.S., Great Britain, and Ireland. They made two visits to the United Kingdom, in 1880 and 1883, the latter associated with Dwight Moody and Ira Sankey evangelistic work. McGranahan pioneered use of the male choir in gospel song. While holding meetings in Worcester, MA, he found himself with a choir of only male voices. Resourcefully, he quickly adapted the music to those voices and continued with the meetings. The music was powerful and started what is known as male choir and quartet music. Music he published included: “The choice”, “Harvest of song”, “Gospel Choir”,, “Gospel hymns #3,#4, #5, #6” (with Sankey and Stebbins), “Songs of the gospel”, and “Male chorus book”. The latter three were issued in England. In 1887 McGranahan’s health compelled him to give up active work in evangelism. He then built a beautiful home, Maplehurst, among friends at Kinsman, OH, and settled down to the composition of music, which would become an extension of his evangelistic work. Though his health limited his hours, of productivity, some of his best hymns were written during these days. McGranahan was a most lovable, gentle, modest, unassuming, gentleman, and a refined and cultured Christian. He loved good fellowship, and often treated guests to the most delightful social feast. He died of diabetes at Kinsman, OH, and went home to be with his Savior.
John Perry
James McGranahan
James R. Murray
1841 - 1905 Person Name: J. R. M. Composer of "[O'er the hills the sun is setting]" in Joyful Songs L.P.M. (1905, April 12). Obituary. New Church Messenger, p.209.
Murray.--At Cincinnati, March 10, 1905, James Ramsey Murray. Funeral services in the Church of the New Jersualem, March 13th.
James R. Murray was widely known in the musical world as the author of many songs and song books, and in the New Church in Chicago and Cincinnati as an affectionate, intelligent, and loyal New Churchman.
He was born in Andover (Ballard Vale), Mass., March 17, 1841. In early life he developed musical talent, and composed many minor pieces for local and special occasions. Later at North Reading, Mass., he attended Dr. George F. Root's School of Music, and was associated with William Bradbury and Dr. Lowell Mason. He enlisted in the Fourteenth Regiment of infantry, commonly known as the Essex County Regiment, and afterwards was changed to the First Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, which was engaged in most of the battles fought by the Second Army Corps up to the surrender of General Lee.
"Daisy Deane," the first and most popular of his early song successes, was composed in 1863 in Virginia while in camp, words by his cousin, Thomas F. Winthrop. This song is known all over the world, and the Salvation Army is using an arrangement of it for one of their war cry songs.
In 1868 Mr. Murray married Isabella Maria Taylor of Andover; and they removed to Chicago. Here three children were born to them, two passing early to their heavenly home, the youngest, Winthrop Root Murray, is still living. It was during these first years in Chicago that Mr. and Mrs. Murray became interested in the New Church, while he was engaged with Root and Cady as editor of the Long Visitor, afterwards merged with the Musical Visitor. After the great fire of 1871 Mr. and Mrs. Murray returned East, where he was engaged in teaching in Lawrence and Andover, and as organist at the Old South Church in Andover. In 1881 they removed to Cincinnati and Mr. Murray became the editor of the Musical Viistor [sic] and head of the publication department of the John Church Company. Among the most popular of his books are "Pure Diamonds," "Royal Gems," "The Prize" and "Murray's Sacred Songs." The following titles will recall some of his best loved sacred songs: "At Last," "Calm on the Listening Ear of Night," "I Shall Be Satisfied," "There Shall No Evil Befall Thee," "Thine, O Lord, Is the Greatness," "The Way Was Mine," "How Beautiful Upon the Mountains," "Angels from the Realms of Glory."
His last great labor in the publishing department of the John Church Company was the seeing through the press five volumes of Wagner's music dramas, with full score and original German text, and an English translation. The immense and careful labor involved in the preparation of these volumes, with a really smooth and excellent English translation, had perhaps, as it was done under pressure, something to do with Mr. Murray's breakdown. Although for some reason Mr. Murray's name does not appear on the title page of these volumes, his friends knew of the place the work held in his affections and ambition.
Mr. Murray was a member of the Church Council of the Cincinnati Society for the last four years and took a deep interest in the building of the New Church, and in the inauguration of services, with all the changes looking to the improvement of the musical part of the service. The vested choir, organized by Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, which Mr. Murray as councilman had urged from the beginning, in their entrance to the church each Sunday singing the processional hymn participated in the funeral service, with a congregation of brethren and friends, all moved by deep love and profound respect for the consistent life and faith of a worthy Churchman and beloved friend.
--DNAH Archives
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For a discussion of Murray and the tune MUELLER, see: Stulken, M.K. (1981). Hymnal companion to the Lutheran Book of Worship. Philadelphia : Fortress Press, p.170.
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Also available in the DNAH Archives:
1. An excerpt from Christie, George A. (1927). New Free Church. In Music in Andover. Papers read at "Fagot Party" of the Andover Natural History Society.
2. Unsourced essay about Murray written soon after his death, likely from Andover, Mass., perhaps authored by Charlotte Helen Abbott.
James R. Murray
E. O. Excell
1851 - 1921 Composer of "[O'er the hills the sun is setting]" in The Gospel in Song Edwin Othello Excel USA 1851-1921. Born at Uniontown, OH, he started working as a bricklayer and plasterer. He loved music and went to Chicago to study it under George Root. He married Eliza Jane “Jennie” Bell in 1871. They had a son, William, in 1874. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became a prominent publisher, composer, song leader, and singer of music for church, Sunday school, and evangelistic meetings. He founded singing schools at various locations in the country and worked with evangelist, Sam Jones, as his song leader for two decades. He established a music publishing house in Chicago and authored or composed over 2,000 gospel songs. While assisting Gypsy Smith in an evangelistic campaign in Louisville, KY, he became ill, and died in Chicago, IL. He published 15 gospel music books between 1882-1925. He left an estate valued at $300,000.
John Perry
E. O. Excell
