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Rest Is Coming

Author: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Appears in 4 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Brother, if thy step gets weary

[Brother, if thy step gets weary]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. S. Lorenz Hymnal Title: Light and Life Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 12323 55423 43466 Used With Text: Rest is coming

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Author: C. H. Gabriel Hymnal: Gates of Praise #57 (1880) Hymnal Title: Gates of Praise First Line: Brother, if thy step gets weary Languages: English Tune Title: [Brother, if thy step gets weary]

Rest Is Coming

Author: C. H. Gabriel Hymnal: Gates of Praise #57 (1884) Hymnal Title: Gates of Praise First Line: Brother, if thy step gets weary Languages: English Tune Title: [Brother, if thy step gets weary]

Rest is coming

Author: C. H. Gabriel Hymnal: Light and Life #7 (1881) Hymnal Title: Light and Life First Line: Brother, if thy step gets weary Refrain First Line: Rest is coming, Rest is coming Lyrics: 1 Brother, if thy step gets weary, And thy path grows dark and dreary, Look away beyond the sky, For rest is coming by and by. Chorus: Rest is coming, Rest is coming, In the home prepared on high: Rest is coming, Rest is coming, Yes, rest is coming, by and by. 2 Should the way seem dark before thee, And the lamps of faith die o'er thee, Raise thy heart to God on high, For rest is coming by and by. [Chorus] 3 Tho' life's cares annoy and fret thee, Tho' temptations fierce beset thee, Let thy heart their rage defy, For rest is coming by and by. [Chorus] 4 Press thy way a little longer, Look to God, he'll make thee stronger, He will hear thy eager cry, For rest is coming by and by. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Brother, if thy step gets weary]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: C. H. Gabriel Hymnal Title: Light and Life Author of "Rest is coming" in Light and Life Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman

Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Hymnal Title: Light and Life Composer of "[Brother, if thy step gets weary]" in Light and Life 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