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If It Were Not So

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: If it were not so, my Master would have told me Refrain First Line: If it were not so, He would have told me

[If it were not so, my Master would have told me]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel W. Beazley Incipit: 32343 56712 43212 Used With Text: If It Were Not So

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Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Coronation Hymns #s28 (1913) First Line: If it were not so, my Master would have told me Refrain First Line: If it were not so He would have told me Languages: English Tune Title: [If it were not so, my Master would have told me]

If It Were Not So

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Inspiring Hymns #43 (1914) First Line: If it were not so, my Master would have told me Refrain First Line: It if were not so He would have told me Languages: English Tune Title: [If it were not so, my Master would have told me]

If It Were Not So

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Diadems #65 (1913) First Line: If it were not so, my Master would have told me Refrain First Line: If it were not so, He would have told me Languages: English Tune Title: [If it were not so, my Master would have told me]

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Author of "If It Were Not So" in Inspiring Hymns 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)

Samuel W. Beazley

1873 - 1944 Composer of "[If it were not so, my Master would have told me]" in Inspiring Hymns Samuel W. Beazley was born in Sparta, Virginia in 1873. He was a music scholar and taught music at Shenandoah College for five years. He composed over 4,000 gospel songs during his lifetime. Samuel W. Beazley maintained a successful publishing business in Chicago, Illinois. He died in Chicago on September 16, 1944. He was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1992. NN, Hymnary editor. Source: www.gmahalloffame.org