['Tis the promise of God, full salvation to give]

['Tis the promise of God, full salvation to give]

Composer: P. P. Bliss (1876)
Published in 79 hymnals


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Composer: P. P. Bliss

Philip P. Bliss (b. Clearfield County, PA, 1838; d. Ashtabula, OH, 1876) left home as a young boy to make a living by working on farms and in lumber camps, all while trying to continue his schooling. He was converted at a revival meeting at age twelve. Bliss became an itinerant music teacher, making house calls on horseback during the winter, and during the summer attending the Normal Academy of Music in Genesco, New York. His first song was published in 1864, and in 1868 Dwight L. Moody advised him to become a singing evangelist. For the last two years of his life Bliss traveled with Major D. W. Whittle and led the music at revival meetings in the Midwest and Southern United States. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey published a popular series of hym… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: ['Tis the promise of God, full salvation to give]
Composer: P. P. Bliss (1876)
Meter: 12.12 with refrain
Incipit: 55161 51232 35321
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Piano Solo

  • Piano Preludes
    Composer/Editor Gina Y. Sprunger
    Published By: SoundForth (2006) pp. 11

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  • Hymn Duos for Organ and Piano Book Two
    Composer/Editor Ethel Tench Rogers
    Published By: Lillenas Publishing Company (1971) pp. 10

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