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O Calvary

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O cross of grief and anguish sore Refrain First Line: O Calvary, O Calvary

[O cross of grief and anguish sore]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Emma E. Meyer Incipit: 51111 76532 34665 Used With Text: O Calvary

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Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Sunshine #36 (1895) First Line: O cross of grief and anguish sore Refrain First Line: O Calvary, O Calvary Lyrics: 1 O cross of grief and anguish sore, Whereon the dying Christ we see! For us the awful pangs He bore That broke His heart, on Calvary. Refrain: O Calvary, O Calvary, Where Christ once died to set us free! O Calvary, O Calvary, A world’s redemption came thro’ thee! 2 O cross of scorn and dark’ning shame, The heartless passers sneered at thee, And mock’d with cruel lips the claim Of Him who died on Calvary! [Refrain] 3 O cross of everlasting pow’r, The sing of triumphs yet to be! Our Lord, raised up in that dread hour, Shall draw mankind to Calvary. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [O cross of grief and anguish sore]

O Calvary

Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Gospel Herald in Song #55 (1899) First Line: O cross of grief and anguish sore Refrain First Line: O Calvary, O Calvary Topics: Easter; Redemption Scripture: Luke 23:33 Languages: English Tune Title: [O cross of grief and anguish sore]

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie H. Brown Author of "O Calvary" in Sunshine 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)