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[They gave Him their treasures]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 34555 67113 65567
[They gave Him their treasures]
They Gave Him Their Treasures
Author: Jessie Hunter Brown Pounds Appears in 2 hymnals Refrain First Line: O, have you a gift for the Savior? Lyrics: 1 They gave Him their treasures,
Those wise men of old,
Their treasures of spices
And perfumes and gold.
No gift they could bring
Was too costly or rare
To lay at the feet
Of the Infant so fair.
Refrain:
O, have you a gift for the Savior?
He asks for your treasures today;
Is aught too precious to give Him?
O, say, can you answer Him nay?
2 We can not lay gifts
At His feet as did they,
But gifts we can offer
To Jesus today;
Our help to the poor
And despised we can bring,
And giving to them
Is a gift to our king. [Refrain]
3 The hungry and thirsting
And sinful are here,
And—list to a voice
That is tender and clear:
"The treasures you give
Unto these that you see,
Lo! I will accept
As if given to Me." [Refrain] Used With Tune: [They gave Him their treasures] Text Sources: Glory and Praise by James H. Rosecrans and James H. Fillmore, Sr. (Cincinnati: Fillmore Brothers, 1887)
They Gave Him Their Treasures
They Gave Him Their Treasures
Author: Jessie Hunter Brown Pounds Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #13247 Refrain First Line: O, have you a gift for the Savior? Lyrics: 1 They gave Him their treasures,
Those wise men of old,
Their treasures of spices
And perfumes and gold.
No gift they could bring
Was too costly or rare
To lay at the feet
Of the Infant so fair.
Refrain:
O, have you a gift for the Savior?
He asks for your treasures today;
Is aught too precious to give Him?
O, say, can you answer Him nay?
2 We can not lay gifts
At His feet as did they,
But gifts we can offer
To Jesus today;
Our help to the poor
And despised we can bring,
And giving to them
Is a gift to our king. [Refrain]
3 The hungry and thirsting
And sinful are here,
And—list to a voice
That is tender and clear:
"The treasures you give
Unto these that you see,
Lo! I will accept
As if given to Me." [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [They gave Him their treasures]
They Gave Him Their Treasures
They Gave Him Their Treasures
Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Glory and Praise #128 (1887) First Line: They gave Him their treasures those wise men of old Refrain First Line: O, have you a gift for the Saviour? Languages: English Tune Title: [They gave Him their treasures those wise men of old]
They Gave Him Their Treasures
Jessie Brown Pounds
1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie Hunter Brown Pounds Author of "They Gave Him Their Treasures" in The Cyber Hymnal 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)
Jessie Brown Pounds
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Person Name: James Henry Fillmore, Sr. Composer of "[They gave Him their treasures]" in The Cyber Hymnal James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer.
John Perry
J. H. Fillmore
Jessie H. Brown
Author of "They Gave Him Their Treasures" in Glory and Praise See Pounds, Jessie Brown, 1861-1921
Jessie H. Brown
