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As You're Passing Down Life's Way

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Strive to make the day seem lighter Topics: Children's Day; Service Used With Tune: [Strive to make the day seem lighter]

[Strive to make the day seem lighter]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 12355 56176 51352 Used With Text: As You're Passing Down Life's Way

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Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Harp of Zion #45 (1905) First Line: Strive to make the day seem lighter Refrain First Line: Do your best some joy to heighten Languages: English Tune Title: [Strive to make the day seem lighter]

Passing Down Life's Way

Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Joyful Praise #77 (1902) First Line: Strive to make the day seem lighter Refrain First Line: Do your best Languages: English Tune Title: [Strive to make the day seem lighter]

As You're Passing Down Life's Way

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 5 and 6 Combined #241 (1911) First Line: Strive to make the day seem lighter Topics: Children's Day; Service Languages: English Tune Title: [Strive to make the day seem lighter]

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Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Author of "As You're Passing Down Life's Way" in Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 5 and 6 Combined Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Strive to make the day seem lighter]" in Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 5 and 6 Combined Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman