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Sermons in Song No. 3

Publication Date: 1901 Publisher: Tullar-Meredith Co. Publication Place: Chicago Editors: I. H. Meredith; Grant Colfax Tullar; J. W. Lerman; C. S. Kauffman; Tullar-Meredith Co.

Nearer, My God, to Thee

Author: Sarah F. Adams Appears in 2,496 hymnals Used With Tune: [Nearer, my God, to Thee]

Author: Jennie Wilson Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Fully surrendered, my Savior, to Thee Refrain First Line: Fully surrendered, O Jesus, my King Used With Tune: [Fully surrendered, my Savior, to Thee]

The Way of the Cross

Appears in 771 hymnals First Line: I can hear my Savior calling Refrain First Line: Where he leads me I will follow Used With Tune: [I can hear my Savior calling]

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Tunes

Tune authorities

[There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus]

Appears in 289 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Geo. C. Hugg Incipit: 33211 76165 33232 Used With Text: No, Not One!

[Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin?]

Appears in 250 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: G. T. Caldbeck Incipit: 55555 66655 51232 Used With Text: Peace, Perfect Peace

[Dwelling, O God, in me]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. C. Ackley Incipit: 34332 11765 57212 Used With Text: Dwelling in Me

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Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Praise His Name

Author: C. H. G. Hymnal: SS3C1901 #1 (1901) First Line: All the way my lord is leading me Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! This is my song Languages: English Tune Title: [All the way my lord is leading me]

God So Loved the World

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Hymnal: SS3C1901 #2 (1901) First Line: How great the love of God to me Refrain First Line: For God so loved the world Languages: English Tune Title: [How great the love of God to me]

The Promise Means, Just Now

Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: SS3C1901 #3 (1901) First Line: "Tho' your sins be as scarlet" there is hope for you Refrain First Line: Just now, just now Languages: English Tune Title: ["Tho' your sins be as scarlet" there is hope for you]

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People

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John H. Sammis

1846 - 1919 Person Name: Rev. J. H. Sammis Hymnal Number: 4 Author of "Trust and Obey" in Sermons in Song No. 3 John H. Sammis was born in Brooklyn. He moved to Logansport, Indiana when ye was 22, where he was converted to Christianity. He was active in the Y.M.C.A., serving as secretary for the Terre Haute Association and later becoming State Secretary. After this, he studied at Lane and McCormack seminaries and was ordained in the Presbyterian church at Glidden, Iowa. He also pastored churches in Indianapolis, Grand Haven, MI, Red Wing and St. Paul, Minn. In 1909 he became associated with the Los Angeles Bible Institute. He wrote more that 100 hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal Number: 143 Author of "Leaning On the Everlasting Arms" in Sermons in Song No. 3 Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

James Nicholson

1828 - 1896 Hymnal Number: 166 Author of "Whiter than Snow" in Sermons in Song No. 3 James L Nicholson United Kingdom/USA 1828-1876. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States around age 25. He lived in Philadelphia, PA, worked as a postal clerk, and was a member of the Wharton Street Methodist Episcopal Church there for about 20 years, where he taught Sunday school, led singing in church, and assisted in evangelical work. This was also hymn writer, William J Kirkpatrick’s, church. Around 1871 he moved to Washington, DC, and worked as a postal clerk there. In addition to his hymn writing, he also wrote several books, one on birds and their care, one on forensic medicine. He died in Washington, DC, but was buried in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry =============== Nicholson, James, an American Methodist minister, is the author of (1) "Dear [Lord] Jesus I long to be perfectly whole" (Holiness desired); and (2) "There's a beautiful land on high " (Heaven), both of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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