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['Mid the toil and the battle I think of my home]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Gilmour Incipit: 55535 17655 43556 Used With Text: Just Ahead

Author: Edgar Page; H. L. G. Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: 'Mid the toil and the battle I think of my home Refrain First Line: Just ahead, just ahead Used With Tune: ['Mid the toil and the battle I think of my home]

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Just Ahead

Author: Edgar Page Hymnal: Sunlit Songs #80 (1890) First Line: 'Mid the toil and the battle I think of my home Refrain First Line: Just ahead, just ahead Languages: English Tune Title: ['Mid the toil and the battle I think of my home]

Just Ahead

Author: Edgar Page; H. L. G. Hymnal: The Emory Hymnal No. 2 #104 (1891) First Line: 'Mid the toil and the battle I think of my home Refrain First Line: Just ahead, just ahead Languages: English Tune Title: ['Mid the toil and the battle I think of my home]

Just Ahead

Author: Edgar Page; H. L. G. Hymnal: Songs of Love and Praise No. 3 #148 (1896) First Line: 'Mid the toil and the battle I think of my home Refrain First Line: Just ahead, just ahead Languages: English Tune Title: ['Mid the toil and the battle I think of my home]

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Edgar Page

1836 - 1921 Author of "Just Ahead" in Songs of Love and Praise No. 3 Real name Edgar Page Stites. Used Edgar Page ====================== Page, Edgar, is set forth in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878-81, as the author of (1) "I've reached the land of corn and wine" (Peace with God); (2) ”Simply trusting every day" (Trust in Jesus). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ===================== Page, Edgar, p. 1585, i. In his Sacred Songs, &c, Mr. Sankey attributes the hymns "I've reached the land of corn and wine," and "Simply trusting every day," to "Edgar Page," as stated on p. 1585, i.; but in his My Life and Sacred Songs, 1906, he gives both to "E. P. Stites," together with some details concerning them, but without any reference to the change in his ascription of authorship. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Person Name: H. L. G. Author (chorus) of "Just Ahead" in Songs of Love and Praise No. 3 Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry