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Better than gold or silver

Author: Jennie Evelyn Hussey Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Longing for help and healing Refrain First Line: Go to them gladly quickly

[Longing for help and healing]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 12356 53171 43212 Used With Text: Better than gold or silver

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Author: Jennie E. Hussey Hymnal: Loyal Praise #149 (1907) First Line: Longing for help and healing Refrain First Line: Go to them gladly Languages: English Tune Title: [Longing for help and healing]

Better than gold or silver

Author: Jennie Evelyn Hussey Hymnal: Living Praise No. 2 #d111 (1906) First Line: Longing for help and healing Refrain First Line: Go to them gladly quickly Languages: English

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Longing for help and healing]" 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

Jennie Evelyn Hussey

1874 - 1958 Person Name: Jennie E. Hussey Author of "Better than gold or silver" in Loyal Praise Jane Evelyn Hussy was born 8 February 1874 in Henniker, N.H. She was an invalid from rheumatism. She began writing verse as a child. The first were published when she was thirteen. At sixteen she began to write stories, articles and designs for crochet needlework for magazines. In 1898 her first hymns were published. She was a member of the Society of Friends. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)