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The Gospel in Song
Publication Date: 1929 Publisher: The Rodeheaver Company Publication Place: Chicago, Ill. Editors: Homer Rodeheaver; The Rodeheaver Company
The Gospel in Song
Take the Name of Jesus With You
Author: Mrs. Lydia Baxter Appears in 671 hymnals Refrain First Line: Precious Name, O how sweet Used With Tune: [Take the Name of Jesus with you]
Take the Name of Jesus With You
More About Jesus
Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 417 hymnals First Line: More about Jesus would I know Refrain First Line: More, more about Jesus Used With Tune: [More about Jesus would I know]
More About Jesus
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Author: Sarah F. Adams Appears in 2,553 hymnals Used With Tune: [Nearer, my God, to Thee]
Nearer, My God, to Thee
["Man of Sorrow," what a name]
Appears in 241 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: P. P. Bliss Incipit: 55531 17665 17655 Used With Text: Hallelujah, What a Saviour
["Man of Sorrow," what a name]
[O listen to our wondrous story]
Appears in 159 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. Owen Incipit: 15651 76553 56217 Used With Text: What Did He Do
[O listen to our wondrous story]
[Must Jesus bear the cross alone]
Appears in 668 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Geo. N. Allen Incipit: 34551 32161 65513 Used With Text: Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?
[Must Jesus bear the cross alone]
O Worship the King
Author: Robert Grant Hymnal: GS1929 #1 (1929) First Line: O worship the King, all-glorious above Languages: English Tune Title: [O worship the King, all-glorious above]
O Worship the King
The Old Rugged Cross
Author: Rev. Geo. Bennard Hymnal: GS1929 #2 (1929) First Line: On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross Refrain First Line: So I'll cherish the old rugged cross Languages: English Tune Title: [On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross]
The Old Rugged Cross
Have You Counted the Cost?
Author: A. J. H. Hymnal: GS1929 #3 (1929) First Line: There's a line that is drawn by rejecting our Lord Refrain First Line: Have you counted the cost if your soul should be lost Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a line that is drawn by rejecting our Lord]
Have You Counted the Cost?
Rufus H. McDaniel
1850 - 1940 Person Name: R. H. McDaniel Hymnal Number: 69 Author of "Since Jesus Came Into My Heart" in The Gospel in Song Rufus H. McDaniel was ordained in the Christian church in 1873. He found much joy in church music. He began writing hymns in the 1880's. He wrote, "I feel in my soul that God has something for me to do in brightening the experience of struggling souls. My chief desire is to be a blessing, if possible, to my fellow-men through these hymns and thereby glorify God in the name of his dear son 'whose I am and whom I serve.'"
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Rufus H. McDaniel
William W. Walford
1772 - 1850 Person Name: W. W. Walford Hymnal Number: 107 Author of "Sweet Hour of Prayer" in The Gospel in Song William W. Walford, a blind preacher of England, is the author of the hymn beginning "Sweet hour of prayer." This hymn first appeared in print in the New York Observer September 13, 1845. The contributor who furnished the hymn says:
"During my residence at Coleshill, Warwickshire, England, I became acquainted with W. W. Walford, the blind preacher, a man of obscure birth and connections and no education, but of strong mind and most retentive memory. In the pulpit he never failed to select a lesson well adapted to his subject, giving chapter and verse with unerring precision, and scarcely ever misplacing a word in his repetition of the Psalms, every part of the New Testament, the prophecies, and some of the histories, so as to have the reputation of knowing the whole Bible by heart."
Rev. Thomas Salmon, who was settled as the pastor of the Congregational Church at Coleshill in 1838, remained until 1842, and then removed to the United States, is believed to have been the contributor who says of the hymn: "I rapidly copied the lines with my pencil as he uttered them, and send them for insertion in the Observer if you think them worthy of preservation."
From: Nutter, C. S., & Tillett, W. F. (1911). The hymns and hymn writers of the church, an annotated edition of The Methodist hymnal. New York: Methodist Book Concern.
William W. Walford
George Matheson
1842 - 1906 Person Name: Rev. Geo. Matheson Hymnal Number: 156 Author of "O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go" in The Gospel in Song Matheson, George, D.D., was born at Glasgow, March 27, 1842, and although deprived of his eyesight in youth he passed a brilliant course at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. in 1862. In 1868 he became the parish minister at Innellan; and subsequently of St. Bernard's, Edinburgh. He was the Baird Lecturer in 1881, and St. Giles Lecturer in 1882. He has published several important prose works. His poetical pieces were collected and published in 1890 as Sacred Songs, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. In addition to his hymn "O Love that wilt not let me go" (q. v.), four others from his Sacred Songs are in Dr. A. C. Murphey's Book of Common Song, Belfast, 1890.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Matheson, G., p. 1579, i. In addition to Dr. Matheson's hymn, "O Love, that wilt not let me go," p. 1583, i,, the following from his Sacred Songs, 1890, have come into common use since 1892:—
1. Come, let us raise a common song. Brotherhood.
2. Father divine, I come to Thee. Strength for Life. This, in Horder's Worship Song, 1905, is altered to”Saviour divine, I come to Thee."
3. Gather us in, Thou Love that fillest all. One in Christ.
4. Jesus, Fountain of my days. Christian's Polestar.
5. Lend me, O Lord, Thy softening cloud. The Fire and the Cloud. In the Sunday Magazine, 1875.
6. Lord, Thou hast all my frailty made. Strength for the Day.
7. Make me a captive, Lord. Christian Freedom.
8. There are coming changes great. The Glad New Time.
9. Three doors there are in the temple. Prayer.
Dr. Matheson informed us that these hymns, together with the rest of his Sacred Songs, 1890, were written at Bow, Dumbartonshire, in 1890. The 3rd ed. of the Sacred Songs was published in 1904. He died suddenly at Avenelle, North Berwick, Aug. 28, 1906.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
George Matheson
