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America Beloved

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: America beloved, prize of the pilgrims' quest

[America beloved, prize of the pilgrims' quest]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Hymnal Title: Hymns for Today Incipit: 55434 51111 76554 Used With Text: America Beloved

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Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: A Hymnal for Joyous Youth #267 (1927) Hymnal Title: A Hymnal for Joyous Youth First Line: America beloved, prize of the pilgrims' quest Refrain First Line: America beloved, thine ancient faith renew Languages: English Tune Title: [America beloved, prize of the pilgrims' quest]

America Beloved

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Hymns for Today #258 (1920) Hymnal Title: Hymns for Today First Line: America beloved, prize of the pilgrims' quest Lyrics: 1 America beloved, prize of the pilgrims’ quest; America beloved, in thee our hearts have rest; Uncounted ships sail toward thee, uncounted wealth is thine; America beloved, thou dost our love enshrine. Refrain: America beloved, thine ancient faith renew; America beloved, May God preserve thee true. 2 America beloved, thy day is yet to be; Beyond our proudest dreaming thy God has place for thee; Front nobly toward the future, keep clear-eyed, free to choose, In trade with greed and cunning thy birth-right never lose. [Refrain] 3 America beloved, let not thy faith grow dim; Thro all the generations, God keep thee true to Him; For those who shall come after, God keep thee true today; America beloved, for thee, for thee we pray! [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [America beloved, prize of the pilgrims' quest]

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "America Beloved" Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Hymnal Title: Hymns for Today Composer of "[America beloved, prize of the pilgrims' quest]" in Hymns for Today James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry