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Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.)

Publication Date: 1989 Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers Publication Place: Murfreesboro, Tn Editors: Dr. Curtis Hutson; Dr. John Reynolds; Dr. John R. Rice; Joy Rice Martin

When They Ring the Golden Bells

Author: Dion De Marbelle Appears in 155 hymnals First Line: There's a land beyond the river Refrain First Line: Don't you hear the bells now ringing? Topics: Heaven Used With Tune: [There's a land beyond the river]

Face to Face

Author: Carrie E. Breck Appears in 220 hymnals First Line: Face to face with Christ, my Saviour Refrain First Line: Face to face I shall behold Him Topics: Heaven Used With Tune: [Face to face with Christ, my Saviour]

Saved by Grace

Author: Fanny J. Crosby Appears in 206 hymnals First Line: Someday the silver cord will break Refrain First Line: And I shall see Him face to face Topics: Consolation; Grace; Heaven Used With Tune: [Someday the silver cord will break]

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Tunes

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[Away in a manger]

Appears in 215 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Luther Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55433 21176 55565 Used With Text: Away in a Manger

[Come, Thou Almighty King]

Appears in 1,314 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Felice de Giardini Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 53121 71123 45432 Used With Text: Come, Thou Almighty King

[Jesus, keep me near the cross]

Appears in 404 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William H. Doane Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 34321 66511 33234 Used With Text: Near the Cross

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Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken

Author: Henry F. Lyte Hymnal: SSSH1989 #1 (1989) Topics: Cross Tune Title: [Jesus, I my cross have taken]

Glory to His Name

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: SSSH1989 #2 (1989) First Line: Down at the cross where my Saviour died Topics: Cross Tune Title: [Down at the cross where my Saviour died]

Jesus Paid It All

Author: Elvina M. Hall Hymnal: SSSH1989 #3 (1989) First Line: I hear the Saviour say Topics: Cross Tune Title: [I hear the Saviour say]

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People

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal Number: 2 Author of "Glory to His Name" in Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) 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) ==============

P. P. Bilhorn

1865 - 1936 Hymnal Number: 111 Author of "Sweet Peace, the Gift of God’s Love" in Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) Pseudonyms: W. Ferris Britcher, Irene Durfee; C. Ferris Holden, P. H. Roblin (a anagram of his name) ================ Peter Philip Bilhorn was born, in Mendota, IL. His father died in the Civil War 3 months before he was born. His early life was not easy. At age 8, he had to leave school to help support the family. At age 15, living in Chicago, he had a great singing voice and sang in German beer gardens there. At this time, he and his brother also formed the Eureka Wagon & Carriage Works in Chicago, IL. At 18 Peter became involved in gospel music, studying under George F. Root and George C. Stebbins. He traveled to the Dakotas and spent some time sharing the gospel with cowboys there. He traveled extensively with D. L. Moody, and was Billy Sunday's song leader on evangelistic endeavors. His evangelistic work took him into all the states of the Union, Great Britain, and other foreign countries. In London he conducted a 4000 voice choir in the Crystal Palace, and Queen Victoria invited him to sing in Buckinghm Palace. He wrote some 2000 gospel songs in his lifetime. He also invented a folding portable telescoping pump organ, weighing 16 lbs. It could be set up in about a minute. He used it at revivals in the late 19th century. He founded the Bilhorn Folding Organ Company in Chicago. IL, and his organ was so popular it was sold all over the world. He edited 10 hymnals and published 11 gospel songbooks. He died in Los Angeles, CA, in 1936. John Perry

E. Prentiss

1818 - 1878 Person Name: Elizabeth P. Prentiss Hymnal Number: 314 Author of "More Love to Thee" in Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) Elizabeth Payson Prentiss USA 1818-1878. Born at Portland, ME, 5th child of Congregationalist minister, Edward Payson. He died of tuberculosis in 1827, and the family moved to New York City in 1831. That year she professed faith in Christ and joined the Bleeker Street Presbyterian Church. She possessed keen abilities, including sympathy and perceptiveness. She began writing stories and poems, and contributed her works to “The youth’s companion”, a New England religious periodical. In 1838 she opened a small girls’ school in her home and took up a Sabbath-school class as well. Two years later, she moved to Richmond, VA, to be a department head at a girls’ boarding school. In 1845 she married George Lewis Prentiss, a brother of her close friend, Anna Prentiss Stearns. The Prentisses settled in New Bedford, MA, where George became pastor of South Trinitarian Church. In 1851 George became pastor of Mercer St Presbyterian Church in New York City. After a happy period in life, by 1852 she had lost two of her three children, one as a newborn, one at age four. However, she went on to have three more healthy children, despite her poor health. She wrote her first book of stories, published in 1853. In 1856 she penned her famous hymn lyrics (noted below) after she nearly lost her daughter, Minnie, to an illness. After George resigned from his church due to failing health, the family went abroad for a couple of years. In 1860 they returned to NY, where George resumed his pastorate and held a chair at Union Theological Seminary. She published her most popular book, “Stepping heavenward” in 1869, furnishing it in installments to ‘Chicago Advance’. The family evenually settled in Dorset, VT, where she died. After her death, her husband published “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss” in 1882. The family children were: Annie, Eddy, Bessie, Minnie, George, and Henry. John Perry ================ Prentiss, Elizabeth, née Payson, youngest daughter of Dr. Edward Payson, was born at Portland, Maine, Oct. 26, 1818; married to George Lewis Prentiss, D.D., then at Bedford, Massachusetts, April, 1845; and died at Dorset, Vermont, Aug. 13, 1878. Her Life and Letters by her husband appeared some time after. Dr. Prentiss removed from Bedford to New York in 1851, and was appointed Professor of Pastoral Theology at Union Seminary, New York, 1873. Mrs. Prentiss's works include The Flower of the Family; Stepping Heavenward, 1869; and Religious Poems, 1873. Of her hymns the two following are most widely known:— 1. As on a vast eternal shore Thanksgiving. Contributed to Schaff's Christ in Song, 1869. 2. More love to Thee, 0 Christ. More Love to Christ desired. Written in 1869, and first printed on a fly-sheet; then in Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, N. Y., 1872. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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