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I Want to Get Closer to Jesus

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I want to get closer to Jesus, My vision so often is dim Refrain First Line: Closer to Jesus, closer to Jesus

[I want to get closer to Jesus]

Appears in 15 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 55321 35155 32176 Used With Text: I Want to Get Closer to Jesus

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I Want to Get Closer to Jesus

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Loyal Praise #14 (1907) Refrain First Line: Closer to Jesus, closer to Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [I want to get closer to Jesus]

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Sing Unto the Lord #14 (1906) Refrain First Line: Closer to Jesus, closer to Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [I want to get closer to Jesus]

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Author of "I Want to Get Closer to Jesus" in Loyal Praise Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[I want to get closer to Jesus]" in Loyal Praise 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