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[Back from the Long Ago]

Appears in 11 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 32312 16165 12344 Used With Text: Nearer to Thee

Nearer to Thee

Author: Jessie H. Brown Appears in 15 hymnals First Line: Back from the long ago Refrain First Line: Still all my song shall be Used With Tune: [Back from the long ago]

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Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Pearls of Praise #89 (1893) First Line: Back from the Long Ago Refrain First Line: Still all my song shall be Lyrics: 1 Back from the Long Ago, Distant and dim, Breathing a warning low, Comes a sweet hymn; Fraught with my childhood dreams, Is it for me; Sacred and tender seems, “Nearer to thee; “Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee.” 2 Oft in an hour of bliss, Comes the refrain, Biding me find in this, Heavenly gain; Even in my griefs I say: Father, I flee Out of this clouded way, Nearer to thee; “So by my woes to be, Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee.” 3 Thus let me daily rise Nearer thy throne, Nearer the lasting prize Kept for thine own; E’en when Death’s heralds come, Lord, may they be Angels to lead me home, Nearer to thee; “Angels to beckon me, Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee.” Scripture: Colossians 1:20 Tune Title: [Back from the Long Ago]

Nearer to Thee

Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.3 #32 (1892) First Line: Back from the long ago Refrain First Line: Still all my song shall be Topics: Solo Tune Title: [Back from the long ago]

Nearer to Thee

Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Triumphant Songs Nos. 3 and 4 Combined #32 (1894) First Line: Back from the long ago Refrain First Line: Still all my song shall be Languages: English Tune Title: [Back from the long ago]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Back from the long ago]" in Triumphant Songs No.3 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

Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie H. Brown Author of "Nearer to Thee" in Triumphant Songs No.3 Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)