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Author: Priscilla J. Owens Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Stop! stop the train! I see ahead Refrain First Line: Put down the brakes! the warning heed Used With Tune: [Stop! stop the train! I see ahead]

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[Stop! stop the train! I see ahead]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: G. Froelich Incipit: 11113 45671 17654 Used With Text: The Danger Signal

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The Danger Signal

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: Temperance Rallying Songs #9 (1888) First Line: Stop! stop the train! I see ahead Refrain First Line: O turn thy steps, the warning heed Languages: English Tune Title: [Stop! stop the train! I see ahead]

The Danger Signal

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: Brotherhood Hymns #51 (1911) First Line: Stop! stop the train! I see ahead Refrain First Line: Put down the brakes! the warning heed Languages: English Tune Title: [Stop! stop the train! I see ahead]

The Danger Signal

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: Favorite Solos #184 (1908) First Line: Stop! stop the train! I see ahead Refrain First Line: Put down the brakes! the warning heed Languages: English Tune Title: [Stop! stop the train! I see ahead]

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Priscilla Jane Owens

1829 - 1907 Person Name: Priscilla J. Owens Author of "The Danger Signal" in Favorite Solos Owens, Priscilla Jane, was born July 21, 1829, of Scotch and Welsh descent, and is now (1906) resident at Baltimore, where she is engaged in public-school work. For 50 years Miss Owen has interested herself in Sunday-school work, and most of her hymns were written for children's services. Her hymn in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, "We have heard a joyful sound" (Missions), was written for a Sunday-school Mission Anniversary, and the words were adapted to the chorus "Vive le Roi" in the opera The Huguenots. [Rev. James Bonar, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix II (1907) ========================= Owens, Priscilla Jane. (July 21, 1829--December 5, 1907). Of Scottish and Welsh ancestry, she spent her entire life in Baltimore. She was a public school teacher there for 49 years. She was a member of the Union Square Methodist Church and took particular interest in its Sunday School. Her literary efforts, both in prose and poetry, appeared in such religious periodicals as the Methodist Protestant and the Christian Standard. --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives

Gideon Froelich

Person Name: G. Froelich Composer of "[Stop! stop the train! I see ahead]" in Favorite Solos Apparently the husband of hymn-writer Mrs. Marion or Marian Froelich, Prof. Gideon Froelich was organist both of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church and of Ahawath Chesed Synagogue, both in New York City. The rabbi of the synagogue, Isaac S. Moses, in the preface to the seventh edition of his The Sabbath-School Hymnal (New York: The Bloch Publishing Co., 1906), thanked Mrs. Marion Froelich for her help with English translations of German verse, and wrote:Prof. Gideon Froelich, whose genius has enriched this book with its finest melodies; no words are adequate to express the editor's gratitude and appreciation. For many years the organist of the above mentioned congregation, he has caught the spirit of Jewish melody, and the character of Jewish worship. His greater reward he will find in the joy which his compositions will produce in the hearts of thousands of Jewish children and in the gratitude of many worshipers in the Synagogue and the home.(source: AGO Founders Hymnal, p.96) ============== 19th Century Froelich, whose name is sometimes given with the title "Professor," was organist and choirmaster of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, and organist at the Ahawath Chesed Synagogue, both in New York City. He also helped found of the American Guild of Organists. www.hymntime.com/tch/