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[Many the hearts who of error are weary]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 56717 12123 21671

Author: Ernest G. Wellesley-Wesley Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Many the hearts who of error are weary Refrain First Line: Bear to the lands that in bondage are lying Used With Tune: [Many the hearts who of error are weary]

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Answer the Call

Author: Ernest G. Wellesley-Wesley Hymnal: Sing His Praise #38 (1902) First Line: Many the hearts who of error are weary Refrain First Line: Bear to the lands that in bondage are lying Topics: Sing His Praise Languages: English Tune Title: [Many the hearts who of error are weary]

Answer the Call

Author: Ernest G. Wellesley-Wesley Hymnal: Hymni Ecclesiae #477 (1911) First Line: Many the hearts who of error are weary Refrain First Line: Bear to the lands that in bondage are lying Languages: English Tune Title: [Many the hearts who of error are weary]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Many the hearts who of error are weary]" 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

Ernest G. Wellesley-Wesley

Author of "Answer the Call" in Hymni Ecclesiae Ernest G. W. Wesley was born and educated in England. At the age of seventeen he started writing for local newspapers. When he was twenty-two he worked as special correspondent for The New York Times in Buenos Aries. While he was in Buenos Aries he became licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He came to the United States in the early 1870's and continued writing and contributing to religious and secular papers. He wrote between five and six hundred hymns and nearly two thousand articles on religious and theological topics. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)