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[Dark and thorny is the desert]
Appears in 19 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: P. P. Bilhorn Incipit: 32132 16151 13322 Used With Text: Better Farther On
[Dark and thorny is the desert]
Better Farther On
Appears in 137 hymnals First Line: Dark and thorny is the desert Refrain First Line: Father on, but how much farther? Used With Tune: [Dark and thorny is the desert]
Better Farther On
Better Farther On
Author: James Nicholson Appears in 12 hymnals First Line: Oft I hear hope sweetly singing Used With Tune: [Oft I hear hope sweetly singing]
Better Farther On
Better Farther On
Author: Flora Kirkland Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When the clouds of trouble gather Refrain First Line: Farther on there's bliss forever! Used With Tune: [When the clouds of trouble gather]
Better Farther On
It Is Better Farther On
Author: Unknown Hymnal: Timeless Truths #343 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D First Line: Hark! I hear Hope sweetly singing Lyrics: 1 Hark! I hear Hope sweetly singing
Softly in an undertone,
Singing as if God had taught her,
“It is better farther on.”
Night and day I hear her singing—
Singing while I sit alone,
Singing so my heart may hear it,
“It is better farther on.”
2 When my faith took hold on Jesus,
Light divine within me shone,
And I know since that glad moment,
“It is better farther on.”
I have plunged into the fountain,
Flowing free for everyone;
I am saved and Hope is singing,
“It is better farther on.”
3 Farther on, but how much farther?
Count the milestones one by one;
No, no counting, only trusting—
“It is better farther on.”
Rest, my soul, in hope forever,
all my doubts and fears are gone;
Jesus is my Savior, Keeper—
“It is better farther on.” Scripture: Philippians 3:13-14 Tune Title: [Hark! I hear Hope sweetly singing]
It Is Better Farther On
It is better Farther On
Author: Anonymous Hymnal: Songs of the Evening Light #143 (1897) First Line: Hark! I hear hope sweetly singing Languages: English Tune Title: [Hark! I hear hope sweetly singing]
It is better Farther On
It is Better Farther On
Hymnal: Select Hymns #404 (1911) First Line: Hark, I hear hope sweetly singing Tune Title: [Hark, I hear hope sweetly singing]
It is Better Farther On
B. B. McKinney
1886 - 1952 Arranger of "Better Farther On" in Pilot Hymns Pseudonyms--
Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin)
Otto Nellen
Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh)
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Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942.
McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Worth, where Isham E. Reynolds asked him to join the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He taught at the seminary until 1932, then pastored in at the Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth (1931–35). In 1935, McKinney became music editor for the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee.
McKinney wrote words and music for about 150 songs, and music for 115 more.
--© Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)
B. B. McKinney
P. P. Bilhorn
1865 - 1936 Arranger of "[Dark and stormy is the desert]" in Songs of Redemption and Praise. Rev. Pseudonyms: W. Ferris Britcher, Irene Durfee; C. Ferris Holden, P. H. Roblin (a anagram of his name)
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Peter Philip Bilhorn was born, in Mendota, IL. His father died in the Civil War 3 months before he was born. His early life was not easy. At age 8, he had to leave school to help support the family. At age 15, living in Chicago, he had a great singing voice and sang in German beer gardens there. At this time, he and his brother also formed the Eureka Wagon & Carriage Works in Chicago, IL. At 18 Peter became involved in gospel music, studying under George F. Root and George C. Stebbins. He traveled to the Dakotas and spent some time sharing the gospel with cowboys there. He traveled extensively with D. L. Moody, and was Billy Sunday's song leader on evangelistic endeavors. His evangelistic work took him into all the states of the Union, Great Britain, and other foreign countries. In London he conducted a 4000 voice choir in the Crystal Palace, and Queen Victoria invited him to sing in Buckinghm Palace. He wrote some 2000 gospel songs in his lifetime. He also invented a folding portable telescoping pump organ, weighing 16 lbs. It could be set up in about a minute. He used it at revivals in the late 19th century. He founded the Bilhorn Folding Organ Company in Chicago. IL, and his organ was so popular it was sold all over the world. He edited 10 hymnals and published 11 gospel songbooks. He died in Los Angeles, CA, in 1936.
John Perry
P. P. Bilhorn
James Nicholson
1828 - 1896 Arranger of "[Dark and stormy is the desert]" in Pilot Hymns James L Nicholson United Kingdom/USA 1828-1876. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States around age 25. He lived in Philadelphia, PA, worked as a postal clerk, and was a member of the Wharton Street Methodist Episcopal Church there for about 20 years, where he taught Sunday school, led singing in church, and assisted in evangelical work. This was also hymn writer, William J Kirkpatrick’s, church. Around 1871 he moved to Washington, DC, and worked as a postal clerk there. In addition to his hymn writing, he also wrote several books, one on birds and their care, one on forensic medicine. He died in Washington, DC, but was buried in Philadelphia, PA.
John Perry
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Nicholson, James, an American Methodist minister, is the author of (1) "Dear [Lord] Jesus I long to be perfectly whole" (Holiness desired); and (2) "There's a beautiful land on high " (Heaven), both of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
James Nicholson
