Search Results

Switch back to the old search page.Advanced Search

[At the portals of your heart]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 56651 33222 12321

Author: I. M. B.; E. C. Magaret Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Sieh', vor deiner Herzensthür Refrain First Line: Ach! soll es vergeblich sein? Used With Tune: [Sieh', vor deiner Herzensthür]

Shall It Be in Vain

Author: Ida M. Budd Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: At the portals of your heart Refrain First Line: Lost one, shall it be in vain Lyrics: 1 At the portals of your heart, Waiting from the world apart, Lo! a kingly form doth stand Knocking still with pierced hand. Knocking gently at the door Where He oft has knocked before, In His weariness and pain, Sinner shall He knock in vain? Refrain: Lost one, shall it be in vain, All His agony and pain? At the portals of your heart, Will you let Him knock in vain? 2 Can you in earth’s joys rejoice, While His tender, loving voice Still carves entrance at your door, Can you slight Him evermore? He has died that you might live; Peace to you He longs to give; Since He for your sins was slain, Can you let Him plead in vain? [Refrain] 3 Will you bid Him hence depart— Closer lock your cold, proud heart? Or entreat Him still to stay Till some more convenient day? Will you not the door unbar? Bow before Him as you are? Hark! He asks you yet again! Let His asking be not vain? [Refrain] Topics: Forgiveness Scripture: Isaiah 45:19 Used With Tune: [At the portals of your heart]

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Shall It Be in Vain

Author: Ida M. Budd Hymnal: Gospel Herald in Song #73 (1899) First Line: At the portals of your heart Refrain First Line: Lost one, shall it be in vain Lyrics: 1 At the portals of your heart, Waiting from the world apart, Lo! a kingly form doth stand Knocking still with pierced hand. Knocking gently at the door Where He oft has knocked before, In His weariness and pain, Sinner shall He knock in vain? Refrain: Lost one, shall it be in vain, All His agony and pain? At the portals of your heart, Will you let Him knock in vain? 2 Can you in earth’s joys rejoice, While His tender, loving voice Still carves entrance at your door, Can you slight Him evermore? He has died that you might live; Peace to you He longs to give; Since He for your sins was slain, Can you let Him plead in vain? [Refrain] 3 Will you bid Him hence depart— Closer lock your cold, proud heart? Or entreat Him still to stay Till some more convenient day? Will you not the door unbar? Bow before Him as you are? Hark! He asks you yet again! Let His asking be not vain? [Refrain] Topics: Forgiveness Scripture: Isaiah 45:19 Languages: English Tune Title: [At the portals of your heart]

Soll es umsonst sein?

Author: I. M. B.; E. C. Magaret Hymnal: Die Kleine Palme No. 2 #86 (1900) First Line: Sieh', vor deiner Herzensthür Refrain First Line: Ach! soll es vergeblich sein? Languages: German Tune Title: [Sieh', vor deiner Herzensthür]

People

Authors, composers, editors, etc.

E. C. Magaret

1845 - 1924 Translator of "Soll es umsonst sein?" in Die Kleine Palme No. 2

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[At the portals of your heart]" in Gospel Herald in Song 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

Ida M. Budd

1859 - 1959 Author of "Shall It Be in Vain" in Gospel Herald in Song Ida M. Budd was born in 1859 in a log cabin in Saginaw County, Michigan. When she was three years old her parents moved to Milford, Michigan. She loved nature and books. She decided to be a school teacher, receiving her teaching certificate when she was fifteen. Her first poem was published in 1881. She is known for her poems for children. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)