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Jesus Is Calling for Thee
Author: Grace Glenn Appears in 35 hymnals First Line: When as of old, in her sadness Refrain First Line: Calling, calling Used With Tune: [When as of old, in her sadness]
Jesus Is Calling for Thee
[When, as of old, in her sadness]
Appears in 21 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 56551 23225 22521 Used With Text: Jesus Is Calling for Thee
[When, as of old, in her sadness]
[When as of old in her sadness]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Will W. Slater Incipit: 51232 12617 65312 Used With Text: Jesus Is Calling for Thee
[When as of old in her sadness]
Jesus Is Calling for Thee
Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: Gospel Praise Book. #96 (1885) First Line: When, as of old, in her sadness Refrain First Line: Calling, calling Lyrics: 1 When, as of old, in her sadness,
Mary sat weeping alone,
Softly the voice of her sister
Whispered, “The Master has come.”
So, in the depths of thy sorrow,
Gall tho’ its fountain may be,
List, for there comes a whisper,
Jesus is calling for thee.
Chorus:
Calling, calling,
Jesus is calling for thee.
Calling, calling,
Jesus is calling for thee.
2 Oh, when thy pleasures are flowing,
Fading thy hope and thy trust,
When of the dearest earth treasures
Dust shall return unto dust:
Then, tho’ the world may invite thee,
Vain will its offering be,
List, for there cometh a whisper,
Jesus is calling for thee. [Chorus]
3 Down by the shore of death’s river,
Some time thy footsteps shall stray,
Where waits an angel to bear thee
Over to infinite day.
What then tho’ dark be his shadow,
If then his coming thou see,
Cometh there softly a whisper
Jesus is calling for thee. [Chorus]
Topics: Invitations to Christ Languages: English Tune Title: [When, as of old, in her sadness]
Jesus Is Calling for Thee
Jesus Is Calling for Thee
Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: Spiritual Songs No. 2 #3 (1883) First Line: When as of old, in her sadness Refrain First Line: Calling, calling Languages: English Tune Title: [When as of old, in her sadness]
Jesus Is Calling for Thee
Jesus Is Calling for Thee
Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: Grace and Glory #32 (1882) First Line: When, as of old, in her sadness Refrain First Line: Calling, Calling Languages: English Tune Title: [When, as of old, in her sadness]
Jesus Is Calling for Thee
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Composer of "[When, as of old, in her sadness]" in Gospel Praise Book. 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
J. H. Fillmore
Will W. Slater
1885 - 1959 Composer of "[When as of old in her sadness]" in Song Crown William (Will) Washington Slater (1885 – 1959) is one of only a handful of Restoration/Stone-Campbell Movement hymn writers, editors, and publishers to have widespread success beyond the confines of the denomination he claimed as his own. His founding and association with the Eureka Publishing company, the Stamps-Baxter Company, the Firm Foundation Publishing House, and his own successful company, the Slater Company, yielded the sale of hundreds of thousands of song books and hymnals and helped to propagate many a hymnal that would come later with hymns and gospel songs from his pen.
William Washington Slater was born February 2, 1885, in Logan County, near Ozark Arkansas. He was the son of William David and Melvina Elizabeth (Williams) Slater. He had six brothers and four sisters. The boys were John, Thomas, Dewey, Sanford, Charlie and Graden. The sisters were Lucy, Effie, Edna and Bonnie.
When William was five years old, his family moved to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) settling near Sallisaw on a farm. His education was only to the 4th or 5th grade, but he did spend much time in studying and reading.
He was baptized into Christ in 1901. He soon became interested in the study of music. He went to singing schools when he could. About 1903, on Saturdays, when other young men went to town to spend the day, William would put the saddle on an old mule and ride some 15 miles to study music and take voice lessons to become a better song leader. In 1906, he became associated with S. J. Oslin, of Stigler, Oklahoma, in teaching music and to study harmony. After that, he taught many singing schools in some 20 States. He began to study the Bible more every day and told his mother that he would like to be a preacher. His mother told him he would have to work hard and study the Bible every day but if he wanted to, he could make a good preacher. He did that.
On June 5, 1910, he married Miss Nettie Washington. To this union, five children were born, four girls and one boy. Their oldest daughter, Pauline, died in 1914. The other three girls, Thelma Banowsky, Loraine Scott, and Ruth Scott live in Fort Worth, Texas. The son, J. Nelson Slater, lives in Dallas, Texas.
Will Slater became associated with such great Restoration Movement preachers including E. M. Borden, Joe H. Blue, Rue Porter, J. Will Henley, J. B. Nelson, J. D. Tant, and a host of others. Slater sang in many gospel meetings with these men and he wrote many wonderful songs.
While in a meeting with J. Will Henley at Atwood, Oklahoma, in 1912, one evening Henley preached a sermon on the home of the soul. Will took notes on the sermon and after service went to his room and before going to bed, he wrote the words for the song, "There's a Home for the Soul." The next day, he wrote the music for this song. One night in the meeting he got some others to help him to sing the song. When Henley got up to preach, with trembling voice and tears running down his cheeks, he said no man could receive a greater compliment than to have a song of that type written after one of his sermons. He said, "Brother Will, you may live long and write many great songs, but you will never write a greater song than this one. May the song live long and many thousands learn to sing and learn the great lesson therein. Thank you, brother Will, for this great song." "Brother Will" did live long and wrote many great songs. Later, he wrote the song, "Walking Alone at Eve." "Some say this was his best song, but I think 'Home of the Soul' is best," remarked Charlie Slater.
In 1913, Will began to make a few talks in the country schoolhouse, trying to preach. About that same time, he went to Coal Hill, Arkansas, and did preach part time for the church there.
In 1914, he came back to Oklahoma. The Slaters' first baby girl died and was buried near Sallisaw in Buffington Cemetery. In 1915, he went to Pourn, Oklahoma, near Muskogee, to do his first local work. Late in 1916, he went to Muskogee to do local work for the church there. While there, in 1917, his father passed from this life. Will moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1918, then to Beaumont, Texas, and then to Irving, Texas. He held many gospel meetings in 20 States.
In August, 1959, he was at Crystal Springs, Arkansas, doing what he loved best-preaching and singing. On the evening of August 22, he had preached. After the sermon, as he often did, he asked the people to stay and sing a few songs. He was asked to sing the song, "This is Someone's Last Day." He talked some about this song title, exhorted the audience to note the truthfulness of it, not realizing it was his last day. After the service, he was preparing for bed in the home of one of the brethren when he became ill. He told the folks he needed a doctor. He died enroute to the hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on August 22, 1959.
D.J. Bulls
In Memoriam, by Gussie Lambert, c.1988, Shreveport, LA p.258-260
Will W. Slater
Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
1843 - 1943 Author of "Jesus Is Calling for Thee" Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace.
Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018)
Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
