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PERSEVERANCE
Appears in 15 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Unknown Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 51712 33532 12315 Used With Text: On time's tempestuous ocean wide
PERSEVERANCE
[On time's tempestuous ocean wide]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: F. A. Blackmer Incipit: 55112 32112 31171 Used With Text: The Gospel Ship
[On time's tempestuous ocean wide]
The Gospel Ship
Author: I. I. Leslie Hymnal: The New Jubilee Harp #79 (1885) First Line: On time's tempestuous ocean wide Refrain First Line: Sail on, proud ship! tho' thy white sails dip Languages: English Tune Title: [On time's tempestuous ocean wide]
The Gospel Ship
The Gospel Ship
Author: I. I. Leslie Hymnal: The New Jubilee Harp #79 (1888) First Line: On time's tempestuous ocean wide Refrain First Line: Sail on, proud ship! tho' thy white sails dip Languages: English Tune Title: [On time's tempestuous ocean wide]
The Gospel Ship
On time's tempestuous ocean wide
Author: I. I. Leslie Hymnal: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #808 (1886) Lyrics: 1 On time's tempestuous ocean wide,
A gallant ship set sail,
And out into the raging deep
She stood before the gale,
Well fitted to abide the storm,
And angry water's foam,
And bring the captives that she bore
Unto her haven home.
2 Long was to be her voyage the time,
Six thousand years almost,
Ere she would make the highland hights,
Along the heavenly coast;
Yet with her sails expanded wide,
On, on, she swiftly flew,
Bearing with ardent hope and love
Her passengers and crew.
3 Oft tempests have assailed her round,
And stormy winds rose high;
And dark have been the mountain waves
That bore her to the sky;
But o'er them all, with steady helm,
She onward pressed her way;
Her compass, true unto the pole,
Guides her to endless day.
4 Long, long, she has been out, and now
She nears her haven home;
A beacon light hangs o'er her bow,
And bids her thither come;
And voices joyful oft are heard,
And music swelling high:
"The land! the land! the land ahead!"
With rapture now they cry.
5 Now soon will she be safely moored
And anchored in the bay;
And all her passengers on shore
Will keep a festal day;
And long their songs of joy will rise
Beneath high heaven's dome;
They've passed the stormy sea of time,
They've reached their haven home. Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Tune Title: PERSEVERANCE
On time's tempestuous ocean wide
Anonymous
Person Name: Unknown Composer of "PERSEVERANCE" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
F. A. Blackmer
1855 - 1930 Composer of "[On time's tempestuous ocean wide]" in The New Jubilee Harp Blackmer, Francis Augustus. (Ware, Massachusetts, February 17, 1855--October 8, 1930, Somerville, Massachusetts). Advent Christian musician. His parents, Augustus and Jane Blackmer, were among those caught up in the excitement of the Millerite Movement. One son, Fred, became an Advent Christian minister. Francis, with a talent recognized at an early age, consecrated his own life to Christian service as a musician. He was immersed in baptism at the Adventist campmeeting in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Elder Miles Grant.
His early years were spend in central Massachusetts, his schooling at Wilbraham Academy. He was largely self-taught in harmony and musical composition. He wrote the words and music to his first gospel song, "Out on the fathomless sea," at the age of sixteen. Altogether he wrote over 300 gospel songs about the Second Coming, witnessing and working for the Lord, and praises to God's Holy Name. A few of these have circulated widely outside his own denomination. His final text, "I shall see him, And be like him," came when he was so weak that his friend, Clarence M. Seamans, had to supply the music. He used the pseudonym, A. Francis, with some of his early songs.
Blackmer's first anthology was The Gospel Awakening, (1888). Subsequent gospel songbooks with which he was associated were: Singing by the Way (1895), Carols of Hope (1906), The Golden Sheaf, No. 2 (1916), and Songs of Coming Glory (1926).
Most of his adult life was spent in Somerville, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, where he had a prosperous piano business. In the 1890s, his "Francis A. Blackmer Pianos" were made for him by the Washington Hall Piano Company of Boston. Later, his "Good as Gold Pianos" were manufactured by the Christman Piano Company of New York City and shipped directly to his customers throughout New England.
In Somerville, Blackmer served as choirmaster and song-leader in the Advent Christian Church for many years. He was also an elder of the church until his death. From 1914 until his death, he was songleader at the mid-summer Alton Bay Campmeeting on Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hapshire. There his High Rock Hill was both a salesroom and a summer cottage over the years. He was a member of the board of directors of the campmeeting association for several years. Very popular were his singing sessions on the campground square between suppertim and evening services, and a final sing into the small hours of the night following the final service of the campmeeting.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
F. A. Blackmer
I. I. Leslie
Author of "On time's tempestuous ocean wide" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book Leslie, Dr. I.I. An Advent Christian writer.
--Doris Colby, DNAH Archives
I. I. Leslie
