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Chas. H. Gabriel
1856 - 1932 Person Name: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Composer of "[I sing because I love Him]" in The Cyber Hymnal Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree
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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.
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H. A. Henry
1856 - 1932 Composer of "[I sing because I love Him]" in Songs of Conquest See also Gabriel, Chas H., 1856-1932
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Ida C. Lewis
1847 - 1925 Person Name: Ida Clarkson Lewis Author of "Why I Sing" in The Cyber Hymnal
Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Lewis is perhaps best remembered for this poem, written to honor the civil war dead from Blair County, Pennsylvania:
Her rock-ribbed mountains, high and blue,
Are not more strong and not more true,
Than is her love for those who gave
Their strong, young life our Land to save,
Who heard great Lincoln’s call for men,
And died in field and prison-pen.
Blair’s heroes sleep far, far from home,
Their only epitaph, "UNKNOWN!"
But angels bright are sent of God
To watch beside their beds of sod.
Long as our mountains pierce the skies—
Till God shall bid the dead arise—
Ne’er let the work our heroes wrought,
By children’s children be forgot.
Brave "Boys in Blue," when strife was o’er,
When cannon ceased to flame and roar;
When God’s sweet angel whispered "Peace!"
And caused the noise of war to cease;
With sun burnt face and battle scars,
Beneath the dear old Stripes and Stars,
Marched homeward to the hills of Blair,
While shouts of welcome filled the air.
These "Boys in Blue," so brave and strong,
Are with us now, but not for long;
For one by one they pass within
The tent that has no "outward swing."
The debt we owe them never can
Be paid on earth by mortal man.
May He who died a world to save
Smile on our heroes, true and brave.
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/e/w/lewis_ic.htm
Ida C. Lewis
