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Soul, a Savior Thou Art Needing

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 13 hymnals First Line: Soul, a Savior thou art needing! Topics: Invitation Scripture: Matthew 11:28-29 Used With Tune: [Soul, a Savior thou art needing!]

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[Soul, a Savior thou art needing!]

Appears in 9 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: James H. Fillmore, 1849-1936 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51353 32132 57246 Used With Text: Soul, a Savior Thou Art Needing

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Soul, A Savior Thou Art Needing

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: The Majestic Hymnal, number two #291 (1959) First Line: Soul, a Savior thou art needing! Refrain First Line: He is calling, softly calling Topics: Invitation; Invitation Languages: English Tune Title: [Soul, a Savior thou art needing!]

Soul, a Savior Thou Art Needing

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Christian Hymns #262 (1948) First Line: Soul, a Savior thou art needing! Languages: English Tune Title: [Soul, a Savior thou art needing!]

Soul, a Savior Thou Art Needing

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Great Songs of the Church #287 (1921) First Line: Soul, a Savior thou art needing! Refrain First Line: He is calling, softly calling Languages: English Tune Title: [Soul, a Savior thou art needing!]

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Author of "Soul, a Savior Thou Art Needing" in Great Songs of the Church 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)

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Soul, a Savior thou art needing!]" in Great Songs of the Church 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