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[Far away across the ocean comes a call for Gospel light]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. S. Lorenz Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 34554 56531 11165 Used With Text: The Heathen at Your Door

Author: Herbert Buffum Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Far away across the ocean comes a call for Gospel light Refrain First Line: Don’t forget our brothers calling o'er the sea Lyrics: 1 Far away across the ocean comes a call for Gospel light; Millions now are dying daily, lost in superstition’s night; Let us give ourselves, our money — give it in abundant store, But not forget the heathen at our very door. Refrain: Don’t forget our brothers calling o’er the sea; Don’t forget the neighbors next to you and me; We may never bear the message to some needy distant shore, But we can win the heathen at our very door. 2 We may never take the Gospel far away from our own home; We may never leave our loved ones over land and sea to roam; Darkest Africa and India we perhaps will ne’er explore, But not forget the heathen at our very door. [Refrain] 3 Do not sigh to do some great thing that will make your name resound After you for years are sleeping underneath a little mound; We will feel repaid in Heaven, when we reach that shining shore, If one is there to greet us, saved at our own door. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Far away across the ocean] Text Sources: His Worthy Praise by Edmund S. Lorenz and Ira B. Wilson (Dayton: Lorenz Publishing Comapny, 1915)

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The Heathen at Your Door

Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: His Worthy Praise #84 (1915) First Line: Far away across the ocean comes a call for Gospel light Refrain First Line: Don't forget our brothers Lyrics: 1 Far away across the ocean comes a call for Gospel light; Millions now are dying daily, lost in superstition’s night; Let us give ourselves, our money—give it in abundant store, But not forget the heathen at our very door. Refrain: Don’t forget our brothers calling o’er the sea; Don’t forget the neighbors next to you and me; We may never bear the message to some needy distant shore, But we can win the heathen at our very door. 2 We may never take the Gospel far away from our own home; We may never leave our loved ones over land and sea to roam; Darkest Africa and India we perhaps will ne’er explore, But not forget the heathen at our very door. [Refrain] 3 Do not sigh to do some great thing that will make your name resound After you for years are sleeping underneath a little mound; We will feel repaid in Heaven, when we reach that shining shore, If one is there to greet us, saved at our own door. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Far away across the ocean comes a call for Gospel light]

The Heathen At Your Door

Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #9972 First Line: Far away across the ocean comes a call for Gospel light Refrain First Line: Don’t forget our brothers calling o'er the sea Lyrics: 1 Far away across the ocean comes a call for Gospel light; Millions now are dying daily, lost in superstition’s night; Let us give ourselves, our money — give it in abundant store, But not forget the heathen at our very door. Refrain: Don’t forget our brothers calling o’er the sea; Don’t forget the neighbors next to you and me; We may never bear the message to some needy distant shore, But we can win the heathen at our very door. 2 We may never take the Gospel far away from our own home; We may never leave our loved ones over land and sea to roam; Darkest Africa and India we perhaps will ne’er explore, But not forget the heathen at our very door. [Refrain] 3 Do not sigh to do some great thing that will make your name resound After you for years are sleeping underneath a little mound; We will feel repaid in Heaven, when we reach that shining shore, If one is there to greet us, saved at our own door. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Far away across the ocean]

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Herbert Buffum

1879 - 1939 Author of "The Heathen at Your Door" in His Worthy Praise Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Composer of "[Far away across the ocean comes a call for Gospel light]" in His Worthy Praise Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund, ==================== Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900. Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany. He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889. Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934). For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree. --Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives