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[Help me, Lord, to look to Thee]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry P. Morton Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 34533 21517 65433 Used With Text: Help Me, Lord

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Help me, Lord, to look to Thee Lyrics: 1 Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Not to those who run with me, Lest one swifter in the race Shame my own poor stumbling pace, Or a laggard spur my pride-- Let me look to neither side; Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Not to those who run with me. 2 Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Not to things behind for me, Lest sins, once besetting, lure From rewards that shall endure; Lest the past should hold me back From the runner's narrow track, Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Not to things behind for me. 3 Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Author of the faith in me; Throned and waiting at the goal, Let Thy love speed on my soul! Let Thy strong desire fulfill All Thy longing, all Thy will; Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Finish now Thy work in me. Used With Tune: [Help me, Lord, to look to Thee]

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Help Me, Lord

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Christian Hymns #328 (1935) First Line: Help me, Lord, to look to Thee Lyrics: 1 Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Not to those who run with me, Lest one swifter in the race Shame my own poor stumbling pace, Or a laggard spur my pride-- Let me look to neither side; Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Not to those who run with me. 2 Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Not to things behind for me, Lest sins, once besetting, lure From rewards that shall endure; Lest the past should hold me back From the runner's narrow track, Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Not to things behind for me. 3 Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Author of the faith in me; Throned and waiting at the goal, Let Thy love speed on my soul! Let Thy strong desire fulfill All Thy longing, all Thy will; Help me, Lord, to look to Thee, Finish now Thy work in me. Languages: English Tune Title: [Help me, Lord, to look to Thee]

Help Me, Lord

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Sweeter Than All Songs #277 (1927) First Line: Help me, Lord, to look to Thee Tune Title: [Help me, Lord, to look to Thee]

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Author of "Help Me, Lord" in Christian Hymns 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)