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Chas. H. Gabriel
1856 - 1932 Person Name: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Composer of "[There is a lamp whose steady light]" in The Cyber Hymnal Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree
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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.
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Chas. H. Gabriel
Robert W. Dixon
1750 - 1825 Person Name: R. W. Dixon Composer of "STAINCLIFFE" in The Song Companion to the Scriptures
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H. J. Betts
1825 - 1925 Author of "There is a lamp whose steady light" in The Song Companion to the Scriptures Betts, Henry John, was born 1825, at Great Yarmouth, where his father was a Baptist minister. He entered the Baptist ministry in 1847, and laboured successively in London, Edinburgh, Bradford (Yorks.), Manchester, Darlington, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mr. Betts has published a small volume of hymns and poetical translations, entitled Early Blossoms, 1842; two vols. of sermons on Scripture Localities and their Associations, 1853; Lectures on Elijah, 1856; and at different times single sermons and lectures. For some years he was editor of the Primitive Church Magazine. His Children’s Hosannah appealed in 1864. From it the following hymns are in common use:
1. Beautiful Star, whose heavenly light. Christ the Star.
2. Jesus, Thou art meek and lowly. Jesus desired.
3. Our Father God, Who art in heaven. The Lord's Prayer.
4. There is a lamp whose steady light. Holy Scripture. These are found in Major's Book of Praise, and some other collections. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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