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The Light Is For Thee
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: The night is far spent, and the day is at hand; The morning is glimmering over the land Refrain First Line: The light is for thee, the light is for thee
The Light Is For Thee
[The night is far spent, and the day is at hand]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 51111 13455 55333 Used With Text: The Night is Far Spend
[The night is far spent, and the day is at hand]
[The night is far spent, and the day is at hand]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. Towner Incipit: 13333 21444 43222 Used With Text: The Light is for Thee
[The night is far spent, and the day is at hand]
The Night is Far Spend
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Hymns for Today #294 (1920) First Line: The night is far spent, and the day is at hand Refrain First Line: The light is for thee Lyrics: 1 The night is far spent and the day is at hand,
The morning is glimmering over the land;
Its glory is shining on mountain and sea,—
Awaken, O sleeper, the light is for thee!
Refrain:
The light is for thee, the light is for thee,
Awaken, O sleeper, the light is for thee,
Its glory is shining on mountain and sea—
Awaken, O sleeper, the light is for thee.
2 The wearisome night of the ages was long,
When shadowing darkness gave shelter to wrong,
But Jesus, our Sun, has arisen indeed,
The morning has come, and mankind shall be freed. [Refrain]
3 The throne of the tyrant is shattered at last,
The day of his haughty oppression is past,
Awaken! Spread quickly the word, “Men are free!”
Awaken, O sleeper, the light is for thee. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [The night is far spent, and the day is at hand]
The Night is Far Spend
The Light is for Thee
Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Glory and Praise #98 (1887) First Line: The night is far spent and the day is at hand Refrain First Line: The light is for thee, the light is for thee Languages: English Tune Title: [The night is far spent, and the day is at hand]
The Light is for Thee
The light is for thee
Author: Jessie H. Brown Pounds Hymnal: The Children's Hallelujah #d137 (1886) First Line: The night is far spent, and the day is at hand
The light is for thee
Jessie Brown Pounds
1861 - 1921 Author of "The Light Is For Thee" 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)
Jessie Brown Pounds
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Composer of "[The night is far spent, and the day is at hand]" in Hymns for Today James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer.
John Perry
J. H. Fillmore
D. B. Towner
1850 - 1919 Composer of "[The night is far spent, and the day is at hand]" in Glory and Praise Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden
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Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs.
--Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives
D. B. Towner
