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What a Wonderful Savior
Author: E. A. H. Appears in 181 hymnals First Line: Christ has for sin atonement made Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Savior is Jesus, my Jesus! Used With Tune: [Christ has for sin atonement made]
What a Wonderful Savior
The Haven of Rest
Author: H. L. Gilmour Appears in 327 hymnals First Line: My soul in sad exile was out on life's sea Refrain First Line: I've anchored my soul in the "Haven of Rest" Used With Tune: [My soul in sad exile was out on life's sea]
The Haven of Rest
I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go
Author: Mary Brown Appears in 458 hymnals First Line: It may not be on the mountain's height Refrain First Line: I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord Used With Tune: [It may not be on the mountain's height]
I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go
[Christ has for sin atonement made]
Appears in 130 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 51155 76544 32155 Used With Text: What a Wonderful Savior
[Christ has for sin atonement made]
["All things are ready," come to the feast!]
Appears in 73 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. A. Ogden Incipit: 55565 32211 67117 Used With Text: Come to the Feast
["All things are ready," come to the feast!]
[I've reached the land of corn and wine]
Appears in 218 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jno. R. Sweney Incipit: 53332 11154 44322 Used With Text: Beulah Land
[I've reached the land of corn and wine]
Our Lord's Return to Earth Again
Author: J. M. K. Hymnal: Sing1950 #1 (1950) First Line: I am watching for the coming of glad millennial day Refrain First Line: Oh! our Lord is coming back to earth again Languages: English Tune Title: [I am watching for the coming of glad millennial day]
Our Lord's Return to Earth Again
When the Holy Ghost Abides
Author: H. L. Hymnal: Sing1950 #2 (1950) First Line: Oh, what wondrous peace and gladness fills and thrills the human heart Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, what wondrous peace and gladness fills and thrills the human heart]
When the Holy Ghost Abides
What a Wonderful Savior
Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Sing1950 #3 (1950) First Line: Christ has for sin atonement made Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Savior is Jesus, my Jesus! Languages: English Tune Title: [Christ has for sin atonement made]
What a Wonderful Savior
Russell Kelso Carter
1849 - 1928 Person Name: R. K. C. Hymnal Number: 58 Author of "Standing on the Promises" in Sing 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)
Russell Kelso Carter
Will L. Thompson
1847 - 1909 Person Name: W. L. T. Hymnal Number: 62 Author of "Softly and Tenderly" in Sing Will Lamartine Thompson (1847-1909)
Born: November 7, 1847, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Died: September 20, 1909, New York, New York.
Buried: Riverview Cemetery, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Rebuffed in an early attempt to sell his songs to a commercial publisher, Thompson started his own publishing company. He later expanded, opening a store to sell pianos, organs and sheet music. Both a lyricist and composer, he ensured he would always remember words or melodies that came to him at odd times:
"No matter where I am, at home or hotel, at the store or traveling, if an idea or theme comes to me that I deem worthy of a song, I jot it down in verse. In this way I never lose it."
Thompson took ill during a tour of Europe, and his family cut short their travels to return home. He died a few weeks later.
Music--
1.Jesus Is All the World to Me
2.Lead Me Gently Home, Father
3.Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
4.There’s a Great Day Coming
--hymntime.com/tch
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Various biographical sketches and newspaper articles about Thompson are available in the DNAH Archives.
Will L. Thompson
A. J. Showalter
1858 - 1924 Hymnal Number: 7 Composer of "[What a fellowship, what a joy divine]" in Sing Anthony Johnson Showalter USA 1858-1924/ Born in Cherry Grove, VA, he became an organist, gospel music composer, author, teacher, editor, and publisher. He was taught by his father and in 1876 received training at the Ruebush-Kieffer School of Music, Dayton, VA. He also attended George Root’s National Normal school at Erie, PA, and Dr Palmer’s International Normal at Meadville, PA. He was teaching music in shape note singing schools by age 14. He taught literary school at age 19, and normal music schools at age 22, when he also published his first book. In 1881 he married Lucy Carolyn (Callie) Walser of TX, and they had seven children: Tennie, Karl, Essie, Jennie, Lena, Margaret, and Nellie. At age 23 he published his “Harmony & composition” book, and years later his “Theory of music”. In 1884 he moved to Dalton, GA, and in 1890 formed the Showalter Music Company of Dalton. His company printed and published hymnals, songbooks, schoolbooks, magazines, and newspapers, and had offices in Texarkana, AR, and Chattanooga, TN. In 1888 he became a member of the M T N A (Music Teachers National Association) and was vice-president for his state for several years. In 1895 he went abroad to study methods of teachers and conductors in Europe. He held sessions of his Southern Normal Music Institute in a dozen or more states. He edited “The music teacher & home magazine” for 20 years. In 1895 he issued his “New harmony & composition” book. He authored 60+ books on music theory, harmony, and song. He published 130+ music books that sold over a million copies. Not only was he president of the A J Showalter Music Company of Dalton, GA, but also of the Showalter-Patton Company of Dallas, TX, two of the largest music publishing houses in the American south. He was a choir leader and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Dalton (and his daughter, Essie, played the organ there). He managed his fruit farm, looking after nearly 20,000 trees , of which 15,000 are the famous Georgia Elberta peaches, the rest being apples, plums, pecans, and a dozen other varieties of peaches. He was also a stockholder and director of the Cherokee Lumber Company of Dalton, GA, furnishing building materials to a large trade in many southern, central and eastern states. He died in Chattanooga, TN, and is buried in Dalton, GA. He loved hymns, and kept up with many of his students over the years, writing them letters of counsel and encouragement. In 2000 Showalter was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Note: Showalter received two letters one evening from former music students, both of who were grieving over the death of their wives. He had heard a sermon about the arms of Moses being held up during battle, and managed to form a tune and refrain for a hymn, but struggled to find words for the verses that fit. He wrote to his friend in OH, Rev Elisha Hoffman, who had already composed many hymns and asked if he could write some lyrics, which he gladly did.
John Perry
A. J. Showalter
