Birdie Bell

Short Name:	Birdie Bell
Full Name:	Bell, Birdie

C. Louise Bell, also known a Birdie Bell, was born, raised and lived in New York city. She began writing hymns when she was sixteen years old. She is the author of more than 500 hymns, 200 religious poems, and 200 Christmas and Easter lyrics, as well as short stories, and articles. She wrote under the name of Birdie Bell, which is what her family called her.

Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Texts Tunes Hymnals

Texts by Birdie Bell (284)	As	Authority Languages	Instances
只一摸，當主正經過 (Zhǐ yī mō, dāng zhǔ zhèng jīngguò)	Birdie Bell (Author)	Chinese	2
You will find the peace which you often crave	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
You need to be washed in the blood	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
You and I can help another	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Yonder in heathen lands many are waiting	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Writing a book as the days go by	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		4
Would you have your life transfigured	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Work in my vineyard the morning is bright	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
With long lost friends we'll meet	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Why in thy bondage wilt thou stay	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	8
Whosoever will may come	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Where the darkness gathers	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
Where do I meet my Savior	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Whene'er my heart grows heavy	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
When you come to snares and pitfalls	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
When the weary march is over we shall find the promised rest	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
When the turbulent waves in their fury dash high	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
When the old church bell that we love so well	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	11
When the feet are bruised	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
When my heart is aching, weary	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
When heart and brain	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
What's thy mission, O my brother	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
What we need in this world is Jesus	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	4
What of the journey, pilgrim	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
What is heaven, a glorious	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
What are the birdies singing	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
We're going to a country where everything is new	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
We march along with battle song	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
We gathered with songs of rejoicing	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
We come, heavenly Father	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
We are traveling the pathway to heaven	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		3
We are strangers and sojourners traveling to the better land	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
We are soldiers in the army of the heavenly King	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
We are pupils in life's school	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
We are lambs of the fold, Through the green fields we go	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
We are Jesus' little soldiers	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
We are Jesus' little pilgrims	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
We are heralds of a great and free salvation	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Walking in the sunlight, on I go each day	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	6
Walk in the sunlight with Jesus	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Uplift the Christ! to men reveal His tenderness and grace	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Twilight shadows gather round us	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
Turn away from earth's allurements	C. Louise Bell (Author)		3
Traveling the path to Canaan's land	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Tossing on life's fitful sea	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
To daily walk by faith, not sight	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
To all who have in Christ believed	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
'Tis easy to fret over troubles	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
'Tis by this sign	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
'Tis a weary way	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
'Tis a message sweet	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Though the storms of life were raging	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Though 'tis hard to part from a friend that's dear	C. Louise Bell (Author)	English	3
Though shadows fall across my way	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
There's sunlight on the mountain, a flood of glory	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
There's a work that's waiting for your hands	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
There's a happy song	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
There's a blessed story all should hear	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		4
There's a blessed Book that's given for the saving of mankind	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
There's a beautiful robe that waits on high	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
There'll be singing and rejoicing in the land beyond the sight	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
There was room at the cross for a sinner like me	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
There is only one way to the kingdom of God	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	5
There is light at the end of the journey	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
There is a gift of wondrous price	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		3
There are many joys to cheer me as I journey day by day	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
The world needs Jesus! The sick and sad	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
The world has need of singers	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
The Word of God is shining	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
The sun is ever shining	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
The Shepherd is seeking His wandering sheep	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	9
The Master's voice is calling (Bell)	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
The Master is calling for workers (Bell)	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
The joy of acquaintance with Jesus	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
The journey of life is before thee	Birdie Bel (Author)		2
The higher life for this I pray	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
The desert, drear, and lonely	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
The day of hope	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
The burden I bear may bend me low	C. Louise Bell (Author)		2
The Bible is mine	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Tell what Jesus does for you	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	4
Tell the gospel story everywhere you go	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
Tell me the old, old story, Tell it, for 'tis always new	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	8
Tell it, O tell it to somebody	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Teach our hands to do thy biding	C. Louise Bell (Author)		2
Sweetly and softly on my ear	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Step by step and day by day, Traveling on life's pilgrim way	Birdie Bell (Author)		3
Speak to every weary heart	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Soul, art thou weary because of the journey?	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		3
Sometimes the sun hides itself	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Soldiers are needed, is your name enrolled?	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Softly the Christmas star	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Softly falling, hear the message	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Sing when days are dreary	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Sing for joy! sing for joy! sing for joy!	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Sing at your work and be cheery	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Sing as you journey, gladden the way	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Sing a song of praise to the Savior's name	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Sin has dimmed your vision	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Side by side we travel	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Seu fardo é pesado e ninguém pra contar?	Birdie Bell (Author)	Portuguese	2
Send salvation's message to the lands afar	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	4
Search for the wandering sheep of the fold	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		6
Ring out, O bells, right merrily	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Ring it out in gladness, bells of Eastertide	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	5
Press on dear traveler press thou on	Mrs. J. H. Bell (Author)	English	6
Pilgrim, whither journey you	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
Pilgrim, travel stained and weary	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	4
Pass it by, the look	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Over the town of Bethlehem	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		3
Over the ocean there come earnest cries	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Over and over I seem to hear	Birdie Bell (Author)		4
Our barks may be launched on life's voyage	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Only one story which never grows old	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	7
Once over the hills of Judah	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	4
Old Glory! we love thee, The light of each star	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Oftmals drohen Sturm und Wellen	Birdie Bell (Author)	German	1
Oft we learn the sweetest lesson	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
O weary years of wandering	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
O we clasp the hand in gladness	Birdie Bell (Author)		4
O there are sheep within the desert	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		4
O soul, thou hast wandered afar from thy Lord	C. Louise Bell (Author)		2
O Shepherd, abide in thy heavenly fold	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
O precious legacy that Jesus left	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
O precious Book! upon thy leaves	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
O precious blood, all-cleansing stream	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
O pilgrim are you weary	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
O night of wonder! night of peace!	C. Louise Bell (Author)	English	2
O Jesus is the dearest friend	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
O haste to the Rock	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
O bring them to Jesus! the wayward the weary	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
O blessed hereafter, for thee do we long	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
O beautiful palace up yonder!	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	6
Not the way, we often murmur	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
Not the way O blessed Savior it would lead us far from home	Birdie Bell (Author)		1
Not my own, for thou hast bought me	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Not always in paths that are pleasant	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
No star shines over the restless seas	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
No place can be desert when Jesus is there	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
No matter if clouds have over shadowed the way	C. Louise Bell (Author)	English	3
No matter how lowly the service may be	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
No clouds up there, be trustful	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
Never slight the task that's given	C. Louise Bell (Author)		2
Never mind the darkness	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Never a burden of care and woe	C. Louise Bell (Author)		2
Nature is teaching a lesson	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
My Father has a storehouse	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
My boat is so small and Thy ocean so wide!	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
More of thy sunshine in my heart, More of thy love to me impart	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	6
May the Lord in love and mercy	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Many on life's pathway murmur and complain	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	4
Many are seeking a helper	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
Many are longing thy message to hear	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	5
Losing the sorrow which swept o'er my soul	C. Louise Bell (Author)		2
Lord, we come to seek Thy face	C. Louise Bell (Author)	English	2
Look up when shadows gather near	C. Louise Bell (Author)	English	3
Look on the bright side turn	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Live in the sunshine	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
List to the bells, bright, beautiful bells	Miss Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Life's burdens are many	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Life is a warfare! go forth to the battle	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Let Him come near to thee	C. Louise Bell (Author)		2
Lead us, O star, as we	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Lead us, O Shepherd, each step of the way	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
Keep looking up, and tread the path before thee	Birdie Bell (Author)		3
Keep close to me for dangers	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Keep a smile in your heart	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Just to believe that the Lord will receive	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		4
Just tell it to Jesus, when burdens oppress	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Just one touch as He moves along	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	54
Just a beam of sunlight	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Journeying with Jesus, in His chosen way	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Jewels of light for the crown of the Master	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Jesus on the stormy sea	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Jesus of Nazareth passed my way	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	4
Jesus, my Shepherd, save by	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Jesus is with us at all times	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Jesus is the dearest Friend I know	C. Louise Bell (Author)	English	2
Jesus is passing this way, my friend	Miss Birdie Bell (Author)	English	5
Jesus goes before you all along	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Jesus geht heute vorbei, mein Freund	Miss Birdie Bell (Author)	German	3
Jesus did it on the cross	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Is the battle fierce and long	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	4
In the shadow of His hand	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
In the morning of life we would serve thee	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		4
In the lands of darkness, far across the sea	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	3
In Egypt long I lingered	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
I'm standing on the Rock of Ages	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	7
I'm on my journey homeward	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
I'll sing the matchless story of Christ	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		3
I would seek a Land in a far-off clime	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
I will lift up mine eyes (Bell)	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
I turn it over to Jesus	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
I shrink not from thoughts of the future	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
I own a priceless treasure, 'tis precious to my heart	C. Louise Bell (Author)		3
I heard a voice, 'twas low and sweet	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
I have felt His guiding hand all the way	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	4
I do not know why shadows fall	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
How is your lamp, is it trimmed	Birdie Bell (Author)		3
هل تعبت جدا دونما معين	Birdie Bell (Author)	Arabic	1
Here's a fountain pure and holy	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Heart of mine I pray thee	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
He says so! I believe it!	C. Louise Bell (Author)		2
He loves me! let me trust His care	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Have you spent the day with Jesus	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Have you left the Shepherd's care	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Have you been seeking a Friend that's kind	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	4
Have faith! just trust Him all the way	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Harvest fields are waiting, White the waving grain	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	6
Hark, the sound of bitter weeping	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Happy in Jesus the whole day through	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
Halting on the borderland	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Hail the morning bright	Birdie Bell (Author)		3
God's promises hold! Like an anchor unfailing	C. Louise Bell (Author)	English	2
God of love, from above	C. Louise Bell (Author)		2
God is good, O come with adoration	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
God hath a beautiful book on high	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Go with the message of light divine	Birdie Bell (Author)		3
Go forth, go forth, the truth proclaim	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Gleam on in splendor	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Gently through thy pastures guide	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Fragrant Easter lilies	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Fly your colors, lift the standard	C. Louise Bell (Author)	English	3
Flash out the light to the souls that repine	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Fill us with the sunshine of Thy love today	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Faithful is the one who leads the way	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Faith sees a realm these eyes can never see	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	4
Every day we need it	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Even as a bird on fluttering wing	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Duties all around you, waiting	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		3
Does the gospel sunshine	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Do you often grow discouraged As you climb the upward way	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
Do you know that Christ is listening?	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Do not chase away the sunbeams	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	4
Dear Savior, as we come today	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	4
Day dawn of gladness	C. Louise Bell (Author)		3
Darkness broods over vale and hill	C. Louise Bell (Author)	English	2
Countless are his mercies	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Conquer the world by kindness	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	4
Come to the Christ who will turn	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Come to the Christ who loves thee	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Come back, my sheep far from me straying	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	3
Clouds may darken the fairest sky	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		6
Cling to Christ forever, Though the storms are wild	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Christmas bells shine sweetly	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Christ our Shepherd	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Christ is beside thee	C. Louise Bell (Author)		3
Children heard the call	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		3
Carry the sunshine wherever you go	Birdie Bell (Author)		4
Carol the song of Jesus' birth	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Cares may beset me	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Can he count on you	C. Louise Bell (Author)		3
Busy little gleaners we Toiling on, toiling on	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	2
Brooks are gaily dancing	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Brighten the path	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Bowed beneath your burden, is there none to share	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	33
Blest Eden land, haven of peace	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Because it is true, I am telling to others	C. Louise Bell (Author)		2
Beautiful birds of the wildwood, Teach me the song that	Birdie Bell (Author)		3
Beautiful anthem the first Christmas wakened	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
Beauteous star once brightly beaming	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Beauteous shelterland	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
Be on the bright side, that is the right side	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Battling for the right	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
Battle-fought, go forth to the conflict	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		5
As you walk along life's way	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
As I go along with Jesus, I'm singing	Birdie Bell (Author)		3
Art thou sitting by the wayside	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	4
Are you treading in the footsteps	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		3
Are you ready to start for home, brother?	R. F. R. Bell (Author)	English	3
Are you looking up for guidance	Birdie Bell (Author)		3
Are you helping somewhere	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		3
Although you stumble in the way	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
Although the road is rough	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
All who are weary, sad and oppressed	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	6
All along life's rugged highway	Birdie Bell (Author)		2
A wondrous song is in the air	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
A sower was ending his homeward way	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	3
A song of joy to all the earth	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		3
A loving hand is leading me	R. F. R. Bell (Author)		2
A life of lowly service may seem but small to thee	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	2
A home with Christ the Master	Birdie Bell (Author)		3
A day of kind remembrance	C. Louise Bell (Author)		2
A bird that has roamed far away from its nest	Birdie Bell (Author)	English	6

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