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Scatter seeds of kindness
Author: Mrs. Smith Appears in 95 hymnals First Line: Let us gather up the sunbeams Refrain First Line: Then scatter seeds of kindness Lyrics: 1 Let us gather up the sunbeams,
Lying all around our path;
Let us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and chaff;
Let us find our sweetest comfort
In the blessings of today;
With a patient hand removing
All the briers from the way.
Chorus:
Then scatter seeds of kindness,
Then scatter seeds of kindness;
Then scatter seeds of kindness,
For our reaping by and by.
2 Strange, we never prize the music
Till the sweet-voiced bird is flown!
Strange, that we should slight the violets
Till the lovely flowers are gone!
Strange, that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one-half so fair,
As when winter's snowy pinions
Shake the white down in the air. [Chorus]
3 If we knew the baby fingers,
Press'd against the window-pane,
Would be cold and stiff tomorrow,
Never trouble us again--
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frown upon our brow?
Would the print of rosy fingers
Vex us then as they do now? [Chorus]
4 Ah! those little ice-cold fingers,
How they point our mem'ries back
To the hasty word and actions,
Strewn along our backward track!
How those little hands remind us,
As in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns, but roses--
For our reaping by and by! [Chorus] Scripture: Galatians 6:7 Used With Tune: [Let us gather up the sunbeams]
Scatter seeds of kindness
[Let us gather up the sunbeams]
Appears in 67 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. J. Vail Incipit: 55111 11771 22231 Used With Text: Scatter Seeds of Kindness
[Let us gather up the sunbeams]
[Let us gather up the sunbeams]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: T. Martin Towne Incipit: 12332 15123 44323 Used With Text: Gather Up the Sunbeams
[Let us gather up the sunbeams]
[Let us gather up the sunbeams]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. R. M. Incipit: 33323 45153 44432 Used With Text: Gather Up the Sunbeams
[Let us gather up the sunbeams]
Gather Up the Sunbeams
Hymnal: Royal Gems #108 (1880) First Line: Let us gather up the sunbeams Languages: English Tune Title: [Let us gather up the sunbeams]
Gather Up the Sunbeams
Let Us Gather Up the Sunbeams
Hymnal: The Salvation Army Songs and Music #159 (1917) Refrain First Line: Then scatter seeds of kindness Languages: English Tune Title: [Let us gather up the sunbeams]
Let Us Gather Up the Sunbeams
Let Us Gather Up the Sunbeams
Hymnal: Songs and Music #159 (1922) Refrain First Line: Then scatter seeds of kindness Languages: English Tune Title: [Let us gather up the sunbeams]
Let Us Gather Up the Sunbeams
R. H. Cornelius
1872 - 1933 Person Name: R. H. C. Author of "Scatter Seeds of Kindness" in The American Hymnal R.H. Cornelius, known as Rufus Cornelius by his friends, was born in Blount Co., AL., January 24, 1872. He was educated in the public schools of Oneonta, the county seat. He began teaching in the public schools at an early age and at one time was associate Principle of the Oneonta High School. It was while teaching in the high school that he became interested in church music and began to study with some of the best teachers of the time. His first major teacher was the late A J showalter in one of his normals at Eden, AL. He continued his study with this wellknown teacher until he had finished the courses a second time. He soon felt that the study of harmony was his first love in his study and soon became one of the best harmon teachers of his time.
Near the close of the century, he moved to Texas and settled in Midlothian, Ellis Co., where he established a publishing house and published many fine gospel song books that sold by the thousands. However, before coming to Texas, he was associated with The Showalter-Patton Co. who published his first compositions. Soon after coming to Texas, he devoted much time to teaching singing schools (Cornelius Normal Musical Institute) and soon became one of the best known teachers of that great state, often having many more calls for schools than he could have time for. In many cases his schools were dated years ahead. he had possessed a beautiful tenor voice and was of a very pleasant personality. This caused his to be loved by all who knew him. About 1914 he was called to Southwestern Baptist Seminary as head of the music department. After several years here in the Baptist School in Ft Worth, Texas, he felt he was more needed back in the field of teaching and songbook publishing. Soon after coming to Texas, he married Maycon Temperance Burleson, who was a fine singer and musician and wrote many songs.During the first 32 years of the 20th Century, this couple of musicians blessed the State of Texas with their singing and teaching. Of all the fine song written by Mr. Cornelius, "Oh, I want to See Him" will carry his memory for years to come. The Cornelius' were members of the Baptist Church and were devoted Christians.
Mr. Cornelius passed away in 1932. Mrs. Cornelius lived only about two years, passing away in 1934. In the passing of these fine gospel singer and teachers, church music suffered a great loss. By C C Stafford
--www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/ (excerpts)
R. H. Cornelius
S. J. Vail
1818 - 1884 Composer of "[Let us gather up the sunbeams] " in Service Songs for Young People's Societies, Sunday Schools and Church Prayer Meetings In his youth Silas Jones Vail learned the hatter's trade at Danbury, Ct. While still a young man, he went to New York and took employment in the fashionable hat store of William H. Beebe. Later he established himself in business as a hatter at 118 Fulton Street, where he was for many years successful. But the conditions of trade changed, and he could not change with them. After his failure in 1869 or 1870 he devoted his entire time and attention to music. He was the writer of much popular music for use in churches and Sunday schools. Pieces of music entitled "Scatter Seeds of Kindness," "Gates Ajar," "Close to Thee," "We Shall Sleep, but not Forever," and "Nothing but Leaves" were known to all church attendants twenty years ago. Fanny Crosby, the blind authoress, wrote expressly for him many of the verses he set to music.
--Vail, Henry H. (Henry Hobart). Genealogy of some of the Vail family descended from Jeremiah Vail at Salem, Mass., 1639, p. 234.
S. J. Vail
Ellen M. H. Gates
1835 - 1920 Person Name: Mrs. E. H. Gates Author of "Scatter Seeds of Kindness" in Calvary Songs Gates, Ellen, née Huntingdon, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is the author of several popular pieces in the American Mission and Sunday School hymn-books. Of these the following have passed from the American books into Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos:—
1. Come home, come home, you are weary at heart. Invitation.
2. I am now a child of God. Saved through Jesus.
3. I will sing you a song of that beautiful land. Concerning Heaven.
4. O the clanging bells of time. Yearning for Heaven.
5. Say, is your lamp burning, my brother. Watching and Waiting.
Concerning her poem which is used as a hymn in America, "If you cannot on the ocean" (Duty), Duffield says her account of its origin is as follows:—"The lines were written upon my slate one snowy afternoon in the winter of 1860. I knew, as I know now, that the poem was only a simple little thing, but somehow 1 had a presentiment that it had wings, and would fly into sorrowful hearts, uplifting and strengthening them." (English Hymns, 1886, p. 257.)
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Gates, Ellen, p. 1565, i., now (1906) of New York city, was born at Torrington, Conn., and married to Isaac E. Gates. Her poems, &c, were published as Treasures of Kurium, 1895. Concerning Dr. March's hymn, "Hark! the voice of Jesus crying" (q.v.), and Mrs. Gates's "If you cannot on the ocean," some confusion has arisen, mainly, we think, from the fact that the opening line of Mrs. Gates's hymn, written in 1860, and the first line of Dr. March's second stanza are nearly the same, i.e., "If you cannot on the ocean," and "If you cannot cross the ocean." The incident which associates the late President Lincoln's name with this hymn is thus set forth by Mr. Philip Phillips in his Singing Pilgrim, 1866, p. 97:—
"The words of this truly beautiful song ['If you cannot on the ocean'] were written by Mrs. Ellen H. Gates . . . When our lamented President Lincoln heard Mr. Phillips sing it at the Hall of Representatives in Washington, Feb. 29, 1865, he was overcome with emotion, and sent up the following written request [given in facsimile on p. 97] to Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Chairman, for its repetition:—' Near the end let us have "Your Mission" [the title of the hymn] repeated by Mr. Phillips. Don't say I called for it. A. Lincoln.' "
It was through this incident that the hymn became known through America as " President Lincoln's favourite hymn." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Ellen M. H. Gates
