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[Father, lead me day by day] (Gabriel)

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles H. Gabriel Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11771 23432 11771

Father, Lead Me Day By Day

Author: John P. Hopps Appears in 163 hymnals Topics: Guidance Used With Tune: [Father, lead me day by day] (Gabriel)

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Author: John P. Hopps Hymnal: New Songs for Service #41 (1929) Refrain First Line: Lead me, lead me Lyrics: 1 Father, lead me day by day, Ever in Thine own sweet way; Teach me to be pure and true; Show me what I ought to do. Refrain: Lead me, lead me, Father, lead me day by day. 2 When in danger, make me brave, Make me know that Thou canst save; Keep me safe by Thy dear side; Let me in Thy love abide. [Refrain] 3 When I’m tempted to do wrong, Make me steadfast, wise and strong; And when all alone I stand, Shield me with Thy mighty hand. [Refrain] 4 May I do the good I know, Serving gladly here below, Then at last go home to Thee, Evermore Thine own to be. [Refrain] Topics: Supplication Languages: English Tune Title: [Father, lead me day by day]

Father, Lead Me Day By Day

Author: John P. Hopps Hymnal: Christian Service Songs #240 (1939) Topics: Guidance Languages: English Tune Title: [Father, lead me day by day] (Gabriel)

Father, Lead Me Day By Day

Author: John P. Hopps Hymnal: Youth Hymnal #211 (1935) Languages: English Tune Title: [Father, lead me day by day]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: Charles H. Gabriel Composer of "[Father, lead me day by day] (Gabriel)" in Christian Service Songs 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

John Page Hopps

1834 - 1911 Person Name: John P. Hopps Author of "Father, Lead Me Day By Day" in Christian Service Songs Hopps, John Page, was born in London, Nov. 6, 1834, and educated at the G. Baptist College, Leicester. Commencing public work in 1856, after a brief ministry at Hugglescote and Ibstock, in Leicestershire, he became colleague with George Dawson at the Church of the Saviour, Birmingham. From 1860 to 1876 he ministered to Unitarian congregations at Sheffield, Dukinfield, and Glasgow. Since 1876 he has preached in Leicester. Mr. Hopps has published many books and pamphlets, chiefly volumes of Sermons and Lectures. Most of his smaller works are controversial. In 1863 he commenced a monthly periodical called The Truthseeker. He has compiled the following hymnbooks for Congregational, Mission, or School purposes:— (1) Hymns for Public Worship and the Home, 1858; (2) Hymns of Faith and Progress, c. 1865; (3) Hymns for Public Worship, 1873; (4) One hundred Hymns for Sunday Schools, 1873; (5) Hymns, Chants and Anthems for Public Worship, 1877; (6) The Children's Hymn Book, 1879; (7) The Young People's Book of Hymns, 1881; (8) and six different editions of Hymns for Special Services (for Sunday afternoon and evening gatherings in the Temperance Hall and Floral Hall, Leicester). Mr. Hopps has himself written various hymns, some of considerable merit. Several have appeared in Congregational, Baptist, Unitarian and other collections. Among the best known are the following:— 1. Cold and cheerless, dark and drear. Winter. 2. Father, lead me day by day. Child's Prayer for Divine Guidance. 3. Father, let Thy kingdom come. God's Kingdom desired. 4. God bless the little children. Prayer for Children. 5. We praise Thee oft for hours of bliss. The blessings of Sorrow. These hymns are from his Hymns, Chants, and Anthems, &c. 1877, and the Hymns for Special Services. The most popular is No. 2. [Rev. W. R .Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)