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Higher Ground
Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 360 hymnals First Line: I'm pressing on the upward way Refrain First Line: Lord, lift me up and let me stand Topics: Righteousness
Higher Ground
[I'm pressing on the upward way]
Appears in 289 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 55133 21621 65131 Used With Text: Higher Ground
[I'm pressing on the upward way]
[I'm pressing on the upward way]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Will W. Slater Tune Key: A Flat Major Used With Text: On Higher Ground
[I'm pressing on the upward way]
I'm Pressing on the Upward Way
Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: The Great Christian Hymnal #85 (1962) Tune Title: [I'm pressing on the upward way]
I'm Pressing on the Upward Way
I'm Pressing On the Upward Way
Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Great Songs of the Church #127 (1921) Refrain First Line: Lord, lift me up and let me stand Languages: English Tune Title: [I'm pressing on the upward way]
I'm Pressing On the Upward Way
I'm Pressing on the Upward Way
Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr., 1856-1926 Hymnal: Christian Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #382 (1959) Refrain First Line: Lord, lift me up and let me stand Languages: English Tune Title: [I'm pressing on the upward way]
I'm Pressing on the Upward Way
Johnson Oatman, Jr.
1856 - 1922 Author of "Higher Ground" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church.
Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher.
For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides.
He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns.
In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy.
Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914
Johnson Oatman, Jr.
Chas. H. Gabriel
1856 - 1932 Person Name: Charles H. Gabriel, 1856-1932 Composer of "[I'm pressing on the upward way]" in Hymnal of the Church of God 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.
Bert Polman
Chas. H. Gabriel
