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The Pilgrim's Hymnal.
Publication Date: 1908 Publisher: William H. Crouse Publication Place: Graymont, Ga. Editors: William H. Crouse; William H. Crouse
The Pilgrim's Hymnal.
How tedious and tasteless [restless and tiresome] the hours
Author: John Newton Appears in 649 hymnals
How tedious and tasteless [restless and tiresome] the hours
Is this not the land of Beulah
Appears in 205 hymnals First Line: I am dwelling on the mountain where the golden sunlight
Is this not the land of Beulah
I feel like going on
Author: William Thomas Dale Appears in 15 hymnals First Line: I have started for the kingdom, I am on my Refrain First Line: Yes, I feel like going on
I feel like going on
To be there
Author: W. H. Crouse Hymnal: PH1908 #d1 (1908) First Line: A mansion above for the blessed
To be there
A sovereign Protector I have
Author: Augustus M. Toplady, 1740-1778 Hymnal: PH1908 #d3 (1908)
A sovereign Protector I have
William H. Crouse
1874 - 1941 Person Name: W. H. Crouse Hymnal Number: d1 Author of "To be there" in The Pilgrim's Hymnal. William Harlan Crouse 1874-1941 was a Primitive Baptist preacher who had pastorates in Kentucky, Indiana, and Georgia, his final state. He edited hymns and published the Pilgrim's Hymnal in 1908 again in 1936.
John Duane Perry (email to Hymnary)
William H. Crouse
Ellen M. H. Gates
1835 - 1920 Hymnal Number: d81 Author of "Home of the soul" in The Pilgrim's Hymnal. Gates, Ellen, née Huntingdon, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is the author of several popular pieces in the American Mission and Sunday School hymn-books. Of these the following have passed from the American books into Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos:—
1. Come home, come home, you are weary at heart. Invitation.
2. I am now a child of God. Saved through Jesus.
3. I will sing you a song of that beautiful land. Concerning Heaven.
4. O the clanging bells of time. Yearning for Heaven.
5. Say, is your lamp burning, my brother. Watching and Waiting.
Concerning her poem which is used as a hymn in America, "If you cannot on the ocean" (Duty), Duffield says her account of its origin is as follows:—"The lines were written upon my slate one snowy afternoon in the winter of 1860. I knew, as I know now, that the poem was only a simple little thing, but somehow 1 had a presentiment that it had wings, and would fly into sorrowful hearts, uplifting and strengthening them." (English Hymns, 1886, p. 257.)
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Gates, Ellen, p. 1565, i., now (1906) of New York city, was born at Torrington, Conn., and married to Isaac E. Gates. Her poems, &c, were published as Treasures of Kurium, 1895. Concerning Dr. March's hymn, "Hark! the voice of Jesus crying" (q.v.), and Mrs. Gates's "If you cannot on the ocean," some confusion has arisen, mainly, we think, from the fact that the opening line of Mrs. Gates's hymn, written in 1860, and the first line of Dr. March's second stanza are nearly the same, i.e., "If you cannot on the ocean," and "If you cannot cross the ocean." The incident which associates the late President Lincoln's name with this hymn is thus set forth by Mr. Philip Phillips in his Singing Pilgrim, 1866, p. 97:—
"The words of this truly beautiful song ['If you cannot on the ocean'] were written by Mrs. Ellen H. Gates . . . When our lamented President Lincoln heard Mr. Phillips sing it at the Hall of Representatives in Washington, Feb. 29, 1865, he was overcome with emotion, and sent up the following written request [given in facsimile on p. 97] to Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Chairman, for its repetition:—' Near the end let us have "Your Mission" [the title of the hymn] repeated by Mr. Phillips. Don't say I called for it. A. Lincoln.' "
It was through this incident that the hymn became known through America as " President Lincoln's favourite hymn." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Ellen M. H. Gates
DeWitt Clinton Huntington
1830 - 1912 Person Name: D. W. C. Huntington Hymnal Number: d148 Author of "Over there" in The Pilgrim's Hymnal. Rv DeWitt Clinton Huntington USA 1830-1912. Born at Townsend, VT, one of nine siblings, he attended Syracuse University, NY, and was ordained a Methodist Episcopal minister in 1853. He married Frances Harriett Davis in 1853, and they had three children: Charles, Thomas, and Horace. After her death in 1866, he married Mary Elizabeth Moore in 1868, and they had a daughter, Mary Frances. He pastored in Rochester, NY, (1861-71 & 1876-79), Syracuse, NY, (1873-76), Olean, NY, (1885-89), Bradford, PA, (1882-85 & 1889-91), and Lincoln, NE, (1891-96), where he became a Methodist District Superintendent of relief work. At his pastorate he also personally designed and oversaw construction of a brick sanctuary seating over 1100 people. A depression in 1893 caused him to forego salary for a number of months while pastoring. As things improved, he designed an addition to the church that was finally built two decades later. He was prevailed upon to serve as Chancellor of Nebraska Wesleyan University (1898-1908), at first without pay, and asked more than once to stay after desiring to retire. In 1908 he became Chancellor emeritus and assumed the role of professor of English Bible & Ethics. He also wrote several books, one titled, “Is the Lord among us?”. Another: “Half century messages to pastors and people”. Another: “A documentary history of religion in America since 1877”. He also served on the boards of the local telephone company and Windom Bank. He contracted pleura-pneumonia and died in Lincoln, NE. A Lincoln, NE, street is named for him, as is an elementary school. He was opposed to football, thinking it had no place in a proper Christian institution, but football was re-instituted at the college after his death.
John Perry
DeWitt Clinton Huntington
