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Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church Publication Place: New York Editors: Charles Albert Tindley; S. T. Kimbrough, Jr.; Carlton R. Young

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Nothing Between

Author: Charles A. Tindley Appears in 113 hymnals First Line: Nothing between my soul and the Savior Refrain First Line: Nothing between my soul and the Savior Used With Tune: [Nothing between my soul and the Savior]

We are often tossed and driven (We'll understand it better by and by)

Author: Charles A. Tindley Appears in 93 hymnals First Line: We are often tossed and driven on the restless sea of time Refrain First Line: By and by, when the morning comes Lyrics: 1. We are often tossed and driven on the restless sea of time. Somber skies and howling tempest oft succeeds a bright sunshine. In that land of perfect day, When the mists have rolled away. We will understand it better by and by. Chorus: By and by, when the morning comes, All the saints of God are gathered home, We'll tell the story how we've overcome, For we'll understand it better by and by. 2. We are often destitute of the things that life demands. Want of shelter and of food, thirsty hills and barren lands. We are trusting in the Lord, and according to His word, We will understand it better by and by. [Chorus] 3. Trials dark on every hand, and we cannot understand, All the ways that God would lead us to that Blessed Promised Land. But He guides us with His eye, and we'll follow till we die, For we'll understand it better by and by. [Chorus] 4. Temptations, hidden snares, often take us unawares, And our hearts are made to bleed for a thoughtless word or deed. And we wonder why the test, when we try to do our best; We will understand it better by and by. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [We are often tossed and driven on the restless sea of time]

I am thinking of friends (What are they doing in heaven?)

Author: Charles A. Tindley Appears in 20 hymnals First Line: I am thinking of friends whom I used to know Refrain First Line: What are they doing in heaven today Used With Tune: [I am thinking of friends whom I used to know]

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[A better day is coming, the morning draweth nigh]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles A. Tindley, Jr. Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 55612 33353 123 Used With Text: A better day is coming

[We are often tossed and driven on the restless sea of time]

Appears in 84 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Francis A. Clark; Charles A. Tindley Incipit: 12333 21211 61123 Used With Text: We are often tossed and driven (We'll understand it better by and by)

[Nothing between my soul and the Savior]

Appears in 71 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles A. Tindley; Francis A. Clark Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 33331 21665 11113 Used With Text: Nothing Between

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Instances

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Ye pilgrims through this vale of tears (Consolation)

Author: Charles A. Tindley Hymnal: BOH2006 #1 (2006) First Line: Ye pilgrims through this vale of tears Languages: English Tune Title: [Ye pilgrims through this vale of tears]

Go, ye humble pilgrim stranger (Pilgrim stranger)

Author: Charles Albert Tindley Hymnal: BOH2006 #2 (2006) First Line: Go, ye humble pilgrim stranger Languages: English Tune Title: [Go, ye humble pilgrim stranger]

When the storms of life are raging (Stand by me)

Author: Charles A. Tindley Hymnal: BOH2006 #3 (2006) First Line: When the storms of life are raging Languages: English Tune Title: [When the storms of life are raging]

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Frederick J. Tindley

Hymnal Number: 30 Arranger of "[If your life in days gone by]" in Beams of Heaven

Hazel P. Tindley

Hymnal Number: 42 Arranger of "[Come, everyone that loves the Lord]" in Beams of Heaven

Charles Albert Tindley

1851 - 1933 Person Name: Charles A. Tindley Hymnal Number: 5 Author of "Nothing Between" in Beams of Heaven Charles Albert Tindley was born in Berlin, Maryland, July 7, 1851; son of Charles and Hester Tindley. His father was a slave, and his mother was free. Hester died when he was very young; he was taken in my his mother’s sister Caroline Miller Robbins in order to keep his freedom. It seems that he was expected to work to help the family. In his Book of Sermons (1932), he speaks of being “hired out” as a young boy, “wherever father could place me.” He married Daisy Henry when he was seventeen. Together they had eight children, some of whom would later assist him with the publication of his hymns. Tindley was largely self-taught throughout his lifetime. He learned to read mostly on his own. After he and Daisy moved to Philadelphia in 1875, he took correspondence courses toward becoming a Methodist minister. He did this while working as a sexton (building caretaker) for the East Bainbridge Street Church. Beginning in 1885, he was appointed by the local bishop to serve two or three-year terms at a series of churches, until coming full circle to become pastor at East Bainbridge in 1902. Under his leadership, the church grew rapidly. They relocated in 1904 to the East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, then again in 1924 to the new Tindley Temple, where the membership roll blossomed to about ten thousand. Tindley was known for being a captivating preacher, and for also taking an active role in the betterment of the people in his community. His songs were an outgrowth of his preaching ministry, often introduced during his sermons. Tindley was able to draw people of multiple races to his church ministry; likewise, his songs have been adopted and proliferated by white and black churches alike. The songs of Charles Tindley were published cumulatively in two editions of Soul Echoes (1905, 1909) and six editions of New Songs of Paradise (1916-1941). His wife Daisy died in 1924, before the completion of the Tindley Temple. He remarried in 1927 to Jenny Cotton. Charles A. Tindley died July 26, 1933.

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