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Precious Hymns No. 2

Publication Date: 1911 Publisher: John J. Hood Co. Publication Place: Philadephia Editors: C. Harold Lowden; Rev. William Stone; John J. Hood Co.

Yield Not to Temptation

Author: H. R. P. Appears in 727 hymnals Refrain First Line: Ask the Saviour to help you Used With Tune: [Yield not to temptation]

Jesus Paid It All

Author: Mrs. E. M. Hall Appears in 809 hymnals First Line: I hear the Saviour say Used With Tune: [I hear the Saviour say]

Author: Harriet E. Buell Appears in 384 hymnals First Line: My Father is rich in houses and lands Refrain First Line: I'm the child of a King Used With Tune: [My Father is rich in houses and lands]

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Tunes

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[The Son of God goes forth to war]

Appears in 536 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry S. Cutler Incipit: 53451 17712 34322 Used With Text: The Son of God Goes Forth to War

[Jesus, my Lord, to Thee I cry]

Appears in 177 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. J. H. Stockton Incipit: 55112 33213 23432 Used With Text: Take Me as I Am

[O sometimes the shadows are deep]

Appears in 144 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William G. Fischer Incipit: 51315 61655 5123 Used With Text: The Rock of Refuge

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Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Jesus Makes Heaven

Author: Charles J. Butler Hymnal: PH21911 #3 (1911) First Line: E'er since the Saviour came to me Refrain First Line: All glory to His name so dear Languages: English Tune Title: [E'er since the Saviour came to me]

Glory On the Highlands over There

Author: Jennie Wilson Hymnal: PH21911 #4 (1911) First Line: There are joys and blessings here, but if grief to you draw near Refrain First Line: There is glory on the highlands over there Languages: English Tune Title: [There are joys and blessings here, but if grief to you draw near]

Such Marvelous Love

Author: Mrs. C. D. Martin Hymnal: PH21911 #5 (1911) First Line: To save the lost the Saviour came Refrain First Line: Such love, marvelous love Languages: English Tune Title: [To save the lost the Saviour came]

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People

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Russell Kelso Carter

1849 - 1928 Person Name: R. K. C. Hymnal Number: 45 Author of "Standing On the Promises" in Precious Hymns No. 2 Russel Kelso Carter was a professor in the Pennsylvania Military College of Chester. While there he was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became very active in leading camp meetings and revivals. After failing health forced him to abandon this work, he studied and became a medical doctor as well as a writer. He wrote novels as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Person Name: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal Number: 50 Author of "Higher Ground" in Precious Hymns No. 2 Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914

Joseph Swain

1761 - 1796 Hymnal Number: 66 Author of "O Thou in Whose Presence" in Precious Hymns No. 2 Swain, Joseph, was born at Birmingham in 1761, and after being apprenticed to an engraver, removed to London. After a time he became a decided Christian, and being of an emotional poetic temperament, began to give expression to his new thoughts and feelings in hymns. In 1783 he was baptized by the Rev. Dr. Rippon, and in 1791 became minister of a Baptist congregation in East Street, Walworth. After a short but popular and very useful ministry, he died April 16, 1796 Swain published the following:— (1) A Collection of Poems on Several Occasions, London, 1781; (2) Redemption, a Poem in five Books, London, 1789; (3) Experimental Essays on Divine Subjects, London, 1791; (4) Walworth Hymns, by J. Swain, Pastor of the Baptist Church Meeting there, London, 1792, 129 hymns; with a Supplement, 1794, 192 hymns; (5) A Pocket Companion and Directory, London, 1794. In addition to a limited number of Swain's hymns, annotated under their respective first lines, the following, from his Walworth Hymns1792, and the 2nd ed., 1796, are also in common use:— 1. Brethren, while we sojourn here. Mutual Encouragement. 2. Children of the King of grace. Holy Baptism. 3. Christ the Lord will come again. Second Advent. 4. Come, ye souls, by sin afflicted. The Yoke of Christ. 5. How sweet, how heavenly is the sight. Communion of Saints. 6. In expectation sweet. Second Advent. 7. Lift up your heads, ye gates. Ascension. 8. Love is the sweetest bud that blows. A Flower an Emblem of Christ. 9. 0 how the thought that I shall know. Heaven Anticipated. Sometimes it begins with st. ii., "For ever to behold Him shine". 10. On earth the song begins. Heaven Anticipated. 11. On the wings of faith upspringing. Passiontide. 12. Pilgrims we are to Canaan bound. Pilgrimage of Life. 13. Praise ye the Lord, the eternal King. Divinity of Christ. 14. Praise your Redeemer, praise His Name. Praise for Redemption. 15. 'Tis heaven begun below. Heaven Anticipated. 16. What is it for a saint to die? Death and Burial. 17. What must [will] it be to dwell above? Heaven Anticipated. 18. When firm I [we] stand on Zion's hill. Confidence. Sometimes as "I stand on Zion's mount," in American collections. 19. Who can forbear to sing? Praise of Jesus. From his Redemption, a Poem in Five Books, 1791, the following hymns are also in common use:-- 20. 0 Thou in whose presence my soul takes delight. In Affliction. 21. Ye daughters of Zion, declare, have you see? Comfort in Affliction. Of these hymns the most widely known are Nos. 1, 5, 6, and 20. We may add that several of Swain's hymns appeared in The Theological Miscellany, 1784-1789. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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