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Your Influence

Author: Laura E. Newell Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O! what shall your influence be? Used With Tune: [O! what shall your influence be?]

[O! what shall your influence be]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Adam Geibel Incipit: 55556 66655 51113 Used With Text: Your Influence

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Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: Boundless Love #168 (1896) First Line: O! what shall your influence be Lyrics: 1 O! what shall your influence be? Will it elevate, strengthen and bless? Shall each one who meets you discover A friend in this world’s wilderness? Will the weak be inspir’d by your presence? Will the weary be strong with your aid? Will you rescue the tempted and fallen, Who aside from the straight paths have stray’d? Will you rescue the tempted and fallen, Who aside from the straight paths have stray’d? 2 Will you work with unwav’ring purpose At the duties that fall to your lot, Doing earnestly, faithfully, nobly? Your actions will not be forgot. Will you reap in life’s vineyard much fruitage, And bear not a burden of leaves? But when you are done with the sowing, Will you carry home bountiful sheaves? But when you are done with the sowing, Will you carry home bountiful sheaves? 3 Or will you be aimless and slothful, Nor care for the ones by the way, Only thinking of self and not reck’ning, If many around you should stray? Not off’ring a word, kindly spoken, To those who are nearest to you; O! the grain is so ripe for the harvest, And the lab’rers indeed are so few. O! the grain is so ripe for the harvest, And the lab’rers indeed are so few. 4 Let each one but help some weak brother, We need not go far to do good, But with willing hands help one another, We all might do much if we would; And the Father will lend us assistance And guidance the whole journey through; So bravely and cheerfully ever The duties of life we’ll pursue. So bravely and cheerfully ever The duties of life we’ll pursue. Languages: English Tune Title: [O! what shall your influence be]

Your Influence

Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: The Helper in Sacred Song #76 (1889) First Line: O! what shall your influence be? Tune Title: [O! what shall your influence be?]

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Laura E. Newell

1854 - 1916 Author of "Your Influence" in Boundless Love Born: February 5, 1854, New Marlborough, Connecticut. Died: October 13, 1916, Manhattan, Kansas. Daughter of Mr. and Edward A. Pixley, but orphaned as an infant, Laura was adopted by her aunt, then Mrs. Hiram Mabie, who at the time lived in New York. In 1858, the Mabie family moved to a farm south of where Wamego, Kansas, now stands. Two years after the move, Mr. Mabie died, and his wife resumed teaching. In 1860, Mrs. Mabie accepted a position in Topeka, Kansas, where she taught many years. Under her tutelage, Laura received her education. As early as age 12, Laura was writing rhymes, and two years later her poems began to appear in local newspapers. She had no thought of a literary career; she simply wrote to give vent to her poetical mind. In 1871, Laura married Lauren Newell, a carpenter from Manhattan, Kansas. They had at least six children, and belonged to the Congregational denomination. In 1873, Laura was listening to an address by a speaker who lamented the death of "genuine" hymns, and she resolved to try her hand in that line of work. That began a long period of writing songs, sacred and secular, services for all anniversary occasions, cantatas, adapting words to music, and music to words. "Mrs. Newell is indeed a prolific writer. Her poems number in the thousands. She has had over eight hundred poems published in a single year, a most remarkable record. The great ease with which Mrs. Newell writes is one of her special gifts. Not long since an order, accompanied by music and titles, was sent her for eight poems to suit. At seven o’clock in the evening she sat down to her organ to catch the music. Then she went to her desk, and at ten o’clock the order was ready for the return mail. Her work pleased the publisher so well that he sent her an order for forty-eight additional poems. Mrs. Newell writes several hundred poems annually. She is a very modest and unpretentious lady, and goes about her daily work as cheerfully as her poems advise others to do. The deeply religious character of the woman stands out boldly in nearly all her work. The next world is apparently as real to her as the present. Her heart is in her work, and to the end of life’s chapter, while able, may she wield her pen to tell the Story to dear to her heart, in verse and song." Hall, pp. 316-17 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/n/e/w/newell_lep.htm

Adam Geibel

1855 - 1933 Composer of "[O! what shall your influence be]" in Boundless Love Born: September 15, 1855, Neuenheim, Germany. Died: August 3, 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Though blinded by an eye infection at age eight, Geibel was a successful composer, conductor, and organist. Emigrating from Germany probably around 1864, he studied at the Philadelphia Institute for the Blind, and wrote a number of Gospel songs, anthems, cantatas, etc. He founded the Adam Geibel Music Company, later evolved into the Hall-Mack Company, and later merged to become the Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company. He was well known for secular songs like "Kentucky Babe" and "Sleep, Sleep, Sleep." In 1885, Geibel organized the J. B. Stetson Mission. He conducted the Stetson Chorus of Philadelphia, and from 1884-1901, was a music instructor at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. His works include: Evening Bells, 1874 Saving Grace, with Alonzo Stone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Stone & Bechter, Publishers, 1898) Consecrated Hymns, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1902) Uplifted Voices, co-editor with R. Frank Lehman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1901) World-Wide Hosannas, with R. Frank Lehman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1904) Hymns of the Kingdom, co-editor with R. Frank Lehman et al. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1905) --www.hymntime.com/tch/