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Tell it today, for the Master will hear

Author: Eden Reade Latta Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Are you for Jesus, express it

[Are you for Jesus? express it!]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. S. Lorenz Incipit: 55553 11727 67653 Used With Text: Are You for Jesus?

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Author: Eden R. Latta Hymnal: Songs for Work and Worship #162 (1900) First Line: Are you for Jesus? express it Refrain First Line: Tell it today, for the Master will hear Lyrics: 1 Are you for Jesus? express it! Tell it today! Tell it today! Be not ashamed to confess it, Tell it today, today! Have you your follies forsaken? Tell it, tell it today! Truly his cross have you taken, Tell it, tell it today! Chorus: Tell it today, for the Master will hear! Tell it today, for our hearts it will cheer! Tell it in weakness, tell it in meekness, Tell it, tell it today! 2 Are you for Jesus? don’t hide it! Tell it today! Tell it today! What if the world should deride it? Tell it today, today! Are you ‘gainst evil contending? Tell it, tell it today! Are you on Jesus depending? Tell it, tell it today! [Chorus] 3 Are you for Jesus? reveal it! Tell it today! Tell it today! Why should you seek to conceal it? Tell it today, today! Does the Redeemer confess you? Tell it, tell it today! Does he forgive you and bless you? Tell it, tell it today! [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you for Jesus? express it]

Are You for Jesus?

Author: Eden R. Latta Hymnal: Spirit and Life #36 (1895) First Line: Are you for Jesus? express it! Refrain First Line: Tell it today, for the Master will hear Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you for Jesus? express it!]

Are You for Jesus?

Author: Eden R. Latta Hymnal: Times of Refreshing #76 (1896) First Line: Are you for Jesus? express it! Refrain First Line: Tell it today, for the Master will hear Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you for Jesus? express it!]

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E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Person Name: Eden R. Latta Author of "Are You for Jesus?" in Songs for Work and Worship Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA. John Perry

Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Composer of "[Are you for Jesus? express it]" in Songs for Work and Worship Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund, ==================== Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900. Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany. He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889. Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934). For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree. --Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives