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Safe on that promise

Author: Carrie E. Breck Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: The billows of Jordan are swelling Refrain First Line: Jesus is holding my hand

[The billows of Jordan are swelling]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: F. H. Hutchins Incipit: 33234 32313 22123 Used With Text: Holding My Hand

[The billows of Jordan are swelling]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: F. A. Blackmer Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 55111 21173 44467 Used With Text: Safe on that Promise

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Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Hymnal: The Golden Sheaf #47 (1902) First Line: The billows of Jordan are swelling Refrain First Line: Holding my hand Lyrics: 1 The billows of Jordan are swelling, And in the dark waters I stand, But Jesus has promised to keep me, And Jesus is holding my hand. Refrain: Holding my hand, Holding my hand; Yes, Jesus has promised to keep me, And safe on that promise I stand. 2 I fear not the valley of shadows, For Jesus my Comforter is, And I shall go home on the promise, For there is no promise like his. [Refrain] 3 O, I will go home on the promise, The promise so sure and so strong; I know it will carry me over To gladness and glory and song. [Refrain] Tune Title: [The billows of Jordan are swelling]

Holding My Hand

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Hymnal: Melodies of Grace and Truth #96 (1908) First Line: The billows of Jordan are swelling Languages: English Tune Title: [The billows of Jordan are swelling]

Holding My Hand

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Hymnal: Celestial Songs #784 (1921) First Line: The billows of Jordan are swelling Languages: English Tune Title: [The billows of Jordan are swelling]

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Carrie Ellis Breck

1855 - 1934 Author of "Holding My Hand" Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersey, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck.

F. A. Blackmer

1855 - 1930 Composer of "[The billows of Jordan are swelling]" in The Golden Sheaf Blackmer, Francis Augustus. (Ware, Massachusetts, February 17, 1855--October 8, 1930, Somerville, Massachusetts). Advent Christian musician. His parents, Augustus and Jane Blackmer, were among those caught up in the excitement of the Millerite Movement. One son, Fred, became an Advent Christian minister. Francis, with a talent recognized at an early age, consecrated his own life to Christian service as a musician. He was immersed in baptism at the Adventist campmeeting in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Elder Miles Grant. His early years were spend in central Massachusetts, his schooling at Wilbraham Academy. He was largely self-taught in harmony and musical composition. He wrote the words and music to his first gospel song, "Out on the fathomless sea," at the age of sixteen. Altogether he wrote over 300 gospel songs about the Second Coming, witnessing and working for the Lord, and praises to God's Holy Name. A few of these have circulated widely outside his own denomination. His final text, "I shall see him, And be like him," came when he was so weak that his friend, Clarence M. Seamans, had to supply the music. He used the pseudonym, A. Francis, with some of his early songs. Blackmer's first anthology was The Gospel Awakening, (1888). Subsequent gospel songbooks with which he was associated were: Singing by the Way (1895), Carols of Hope (1906), The Golden Sheaf, No. 2 (1916), and Songs of Coming Glory (1926). Most of his adult life was spent in Somerville, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, where he had a prosperous piano business. In the 1890s, his "Francis A. Blackmer Pianos" were made for him by the Washington Hall Piano Company of Boston. Later, his "Good as Gold Pianos" were manufactured by the Christman Piano Company of New York City and shipped directly to his customers throughout New England. In Somerville, Blackmer served as choirmaster and song-leader in the Advent Christian Church for many years. He was also an elder of the church until his death. From 1914 until his death, he was songleader at the mid-summer Alton Bay Campmeeting on Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hapshire. There his High Rock Hill was both a salesroom and a summer cottage over the years. He was a member of the board of directors of the campmeeting association for several years. Very popular were his singing sessions on the campground square between suppertim and evening services, and a final sing into the small hours of the night following the final service of the campmeeting. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives