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[I've looked my life over and counted my store]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 55671 23456 55321 Used With Text: Jesus, the Life-Boat

Author: J. J. Maxfield Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I've looked my life over and counted my store Refrain First Line: I will live the old ship that is stranded Used With Tune: [I've looked my life over and counted my store]

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Jesus, the Life-Boat

Author: J. J. Maxfield Hymnal: Songs of the Pentecost for the Forward Gospel Movement #100 (1894) First Line: I've looked my life over and counted my store Refrain First Line: I will live the old ship that is stranded Languages: English Tune Title: [I've looked my life over and counted my store]

Jesus, the Life-Boat

Author: J. J. Maxfield Hymnal: Sifted Wheat #184 (1898) First Line: I've looked my life over and counted my store Refrain First Line: I will live the old ship that is stranded Languages: English Tune Title: [I've looked my life over and counted my store]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[I've looked my life over and counted my store]" in Sifted Wheat 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