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Closer, Dear Lord, to Thee

Author: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Closer, dear Lord, to Thee, closer to Thee (Gabriel) Refrain First Line: Closer to Thee, closer to Thee

[Closer, dear Lord, to Thee, closer to Thee]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. Doane Incipit: 56512 12165 57123 Used With Text: Closer, Dear Lord, to Thee

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Author: Chas. H. Gabriel Hymnal: Good as Gold #150 (1880) First Line: Closer, dear Lord, to Thee, closer to Thee Refrain First Line: Closer to Thee, closer to Thee Languages: English Tune Title: [Closer, dear Lord, to Thee, closer to Thee]

Closer to Thee, closer to Thee

Hymnal: Laudes Domini #414 (1888) First Line: Closer, dear Lord, to Thee, closer to Thee Languages: English

Closer to thee

Author: Charles H. Gabriel Hymnal: Hymn Service No.2 #d15 (1880) First Line: Closer, dear Lord, to thee, closer to thee, Hid 'neath thy sheltering wing Languages: English

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Author of "Closer, Dear Lord, to Thee" 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

W. Howard Doane

1832 - 1915 Person Name: W. H. Doane Composer of "[Closer, dear Lord, to Thee, closer to Thee]" in Good as Gold An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman ============ Doane, William Howard, p. 304, he was born Feb. 3, 1832. His first Sunday School hymn-book was Sabbath Gems published in 1861. He has composed about 1000 tunes, songs, anthems, &c. He has written but few hymns. Of these "No one knows but Jesus," "Precious Saviour, dearest Friend," and "Saviour, like a bird to Thee," are noted in Burrage's Baptist Hymn Writers. 1888, p. 557. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =================== Doane, W. H. (William Howard), born in Preston, Connecticut, 1831, and educated for the musical profession by eminent American and German masters. He has had for years the superintendence of a large Baptist Sunday School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resides. Although not a hymnwriter, the wonderful success which has attended his musical setting of numerous American hymns, and the number of his musical editions of hymnbooks for Sunday Schools and evangelistic purposes, bring him within the sphere of hymnological literature. Amongst his collections we have:— (1) Silver Spray, 1868; (2) Pure Gold, 1877; (3) Royal Diadem, 1873; (4) Welcome Tidings, 1877; (5) Brightest and Best, 1875; (6) Fountain of Song; (7) Songs of Devotion, 1870; (8) Temple Anthems, &c. His most popular melodies include "Near the Cross," "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," "Pass me Not," "More Love to Thee," "Rescue the Perishing," "Tell me the Old, Old Story," &c. - John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)