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Author: W. E. P. Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: The fields are white to harvest Refrain First Line: The Harvest Bells! oh, how they ring Used With Tune: [The fields are white to harvest]

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MECKLENBURG

Meter: 7.6.7.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Evander Penn Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51155 61122 33223 Used With Text: The Fields Are White To Harvest (Harvest Bells)

[The fields are white to harvest]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: H. N. Lincoln Incipit: 55435 65515 31255 Used With Text: Harvest Bells

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The Fields Are White To Harvest (Harvest Bells)

Author: William E. Penn Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #11858 Meter: 7.6.7.6.8.6.8.6 First Line: The fields are white to harvest Refrain First Line: The harvest bells! oh, how they ring Lyrics: 1 The fields are white to harvest, The grain is falling fast, And soon the time of reaping Forever will be past. Refrain: The harvest bells! oh, how they ring; To one and all they say, "O come, the blessèd Gospel sing, Come work and watch and pray." 2 "Come over then and help us," The harvest bells do say, "Come quickly to the rescue"; This call we must obey. [Refrain] 3 Then do not tarry longer, "Make haste," the bells do say, As everywhere they’re ringing, "Work while ’tis called today". [Refrain] 4 Then let us pray and labor Until the end we see, ’Till every friend and neighbor From Satan shall be free. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: MECKLENBURG

Harvest Bells

Author: W. E. P. Hymnal: New Harvest Bells #1 (1900) First Line: The fields are white to harvest Refrain First Line: The Harvest Bells! oh, how they ring Languages: English Tune Title: [The fields are white to harvest]

Harvest Bells

Author: W. E. Penn Hymnal: Harvest Bells Nos. 1, 2 and 3 #229 (1892) First Line: The fields are white to harvest Refrain First Line: The Harvest Bells! oh, how they ring Languages: English Tune Title: [The fields are white to harvest]

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W. E. Penn

1832 - 1895 Person Name: William E. Penn Author of "The Fields Are White To Harvest (Harvest Bells)" in The Cyber Hymnal Penn, William Evander. (Near village of Old Jefferson, Rutherford County, Tennessee, August 11, 1832--April 29, 1895, Eureka Springs, Arkansas). Southern Baptist. Evangelist in Texas and other states, 1875-1895. Compiled three hymnals titled Harvest Bells (1881, 1884, 1887) for use in his meetings. His hymns were primarily revivalistic in emphasis. His finest hymn, "There is a rock in a weary land, Its shadow falls on the burning sand" was paid the compliment of being reworked and issued under the name of Edward Husband in D.B. Towner's Revival Hymns (Chicago, 1905). He and his wife Corilla Frances Sayle adopted three children. Ordained December 4, 1880. --David W. Music, and additional information from the DNAH Archives See: Linder, Michael. (1985). William Evander Penn : his contribution to church music (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. The Life and Labors of Major W. E. Penn. (1896). St. Louis: C. B. Woodward Printing).

H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Composer of "[The fields are white to harvest]" in Harvest Bells Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Horace Neely Lincoln, 1859-1948. Horace was the son of James Lincoln and Emaline King, and husband of Etta Lee Thurmand (married 1887). He moved with his family to Texas when he was seven years old. At age 10, he began attending a singing school conducted by James M. Jolley of Mississippi. In 1880, he taught his first singing class in his old neighborhood school house. Later that year, he attended his first normal music school, taught at Mountain Home (now Holland), Texas. Lincoln had other musical training under L. B. Shook (a former student of Philip Bliss) and John McPherson of Illinois. In 1898, he graduated from the Chicago National College of Music, and in 1906 took a post-graduate course under Horatio Palmer. Lincoln eventually became president of the Songland Music Company, and the World’s Normal Musical College. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime/tch)