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[Jesus, and shall it ever be]

Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. E. Winsett Incipit: 56531 56535 65313 Used With Text: Not Ashamed of Jesus

Jesus, and Shall it Ever Be

Author: Joseph Grigg Appears in 1,284 hymnals Used With Tune: [Jesus, and shall it ever be]

Author: H. C. Ball Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: ¿Será posible, mi Señor, que me avergúence Refrain First Line: No mi Señor, Te adoro hoy Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13:4 Used With Tune: [¿Será posible, mi Señor, que me avergúence]

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Jesus, and Shall it Ever Be

Author: Joseph Grigg Hymnal: Songs of the Kingdom #124 (1911) Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus, and shall it ever be]

Not Ashamed of Jesus

Author: Joseph Grigg Hymnal: Songs of Perennial Glory #124 (1915) First Line: Jesus, and shall it ever be Refrain First Line: No, when I blush, be this my shame Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus, and shall it ever be]

Not Ashamed of Jesus

Author: Joseph Grigg; R. E. W. Hymnal: Songs of Pentecostal Power, Complete #166 (1912) First Line: Jesus, and shall it ever be Refrain First Line: No, when I blush, be this my shame Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus, and shall it ever be]

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R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Person Name: R. E. W. Arranger of "Not Ashamed of Jesus" in Songs of Pentecostal Power, Complete Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music. Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899. He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory. He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day). Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children. Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame. --www.wikipedia.org

J. Grigg

1720 - 1768 Person Name: Joseph Grigg Author of "Not Ashamed of Jesus" in Songs of Pentecostal Power, Complete Grigg, Joseph, was born in 1728, according to the D. Sedgwick’s Manuscript," but this date seems to be some six or eight years too late. He was the son of poor parents and was brought up to mechanical pursuits. In 1743 he forsook his trade and became assistant minister to the Rev. Thomas Bures, of the Presbyterian Church, Silver Street, London. On the death of Mr. Bures in 1747, he retired from the ministry, and, marrying a lady of property, look up his residence at St. Albans. He died at Walthamstow, Essex, Oct. 29, 1768. As a hymnwriter Grigg is chiefly known by two of his hymns, "Behold a stranger at the door"; and "Jesus, and can it ever be?" His hymnwriting began, it is said, at ten years of age. His published works of various kinds number over 40. Those in which his hymns are found are:— (1) Miscellanies on Moral and Religious Subjects, &c, London, Elizabeth Harrison, 1756. (2) The Voice of Danger, the Voice of God. A Sermon Preached at St. Albans, and at Box-Lane, Chiefly with a View to the apprehended Invasion. By J. Grigg. London, J. Buckland, 1756. To this is appended his hymn, "Shake, Britain, like an aspen shake." (3) Four Hymns on Divine Subjects wherein the Patience and Love of Our Divine Saviour is displayed, London, 1765. (4) Hymns by the late Rev. Joseph Grigg, Stourbridge, 1806. (5) During 1765 and 1766 he also contributed 12 hymns to The Christians Magazine. In 1861 D. Sedgwick collected his hymns and poems, and published them with a memoir as: Hymns on Divine Subjects, * * * * London, 1861. This volume contains 40 "Hymns," and 17 "Serious Poems." In the “S. MSS." Sedgwick notes that in 1861 he omitted three hymns by Grigg, which were then unknown to him, viz.:—l) On "The National Fast," appended to a sermon preached at Northampton, Feb. 13, 1761, by W. Warburton, and published in London, 1761. (2) "A Harvest Hymn by the late Rev. Joseph Grigg," in 6 stanzas, in the Evangelical Magazine, July, 1822; and (3) On the Parable of Dives and Lazarus, dated "Feb. 15, 1767." -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)