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Author: Chas. Edw. Pollock Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: For pain or for pleasure, for weal or for woe Refrain First Line: Sowing the seeds by our words and our deeds Used With Tune: [For pain or for pleasure, for weal or for woe]

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[For pain or for pleasure, for weal or for woe]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 55117 22212 33323 Used With Text: The Harvest Is Sure

[For pain or for pleasure, for weal or for woe]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. Edw. Pollock Incipit: 55655 34567 15671 Used With Text: The Harvest is Sure

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The Harvest Is Sure

Hymnal: Grace and Glory #106 (1882) First Line: For pain or for pleasure, for weal or for woe Refrain First Line: Sowing the seeds by our words and our deeds Languages: English Tune Title: [For pain or for pleasure, for weal or for woe]

The Harvest is Sure

Author: Chas. Edw. Pollock Hymnal: Waves of Melody #119 (1901) First Line: For pain or for pleasure, for weal or for woe Refrain First Line: Sowing the seeds by our words and our deeds Languages: English Tune Title: [For pain or for pleasure, for weal or for woe]

Sowing the seeds by our words and our deeds

Hymnal: Songs of Glory #48 (1874) First Line: For pain or for pleasure, for weal or for woe

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Charles Edward Pollock

1853 - 1928 Person Name: Chas. Edw. Pollock Author (Chorus) of "The Harvest is Sure" in Waves of Melody Charles Edward Pollock USA 1853-1928. Born at Newcastle, PA, he moved to Jefferson City, MO, when age 17. He was a cane maker for C W Allen. He also worked 20 years for the MO Pacific Railroad, as a depot clerk and later as Assistant Roadmaster. He was a musician and prolific songwriter, composing 5000+ songs, mostly used in Sunday school settings and church settings. He took little remuneration for his compositions, preferring they be freely used. He produced three songbooks: “Praises”, “Beauty of praise”, and “Waves of melody”. In 1886 he married Martha (Mattie) Jane Harris, and they had three children: Robert, Edward, and a daughter. He died in Merriam, KS. John Perry ================= Pollock, Charles Edward. (Jefferson City, Missouri, 1853-1924). Records of Jefferson City indicate the following: 1897 clerk at depot; residence at 106 Broadway (with Mildred Pollock) 1904-1905 cane maker for C. W. Allen 1908-1909 musician; residence at 106 Broadway (with wife Matty) 1912-1913 residence at St. Louis Road, east city limits --Wilmer Swope, DNAH Archives Note: not to be confused with Charles Edward Pollock (c.1871-1924).

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[For pain or for pleasure, for weal or for woe]" in Grace and Glory 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