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Author: Harry Dixon Loes Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: The Saviour came from heav'n to die on Calv'ry Refrain First Line: Tell me more of Jesus and of heaven Used With Tune: [The Saviour came from heav'n to die on Calv'ry]

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[The Saviour came from heav'n to die on Calv'ry]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred B. Smith Used With Text: Tell Me More of Jesus

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Tell Me More of Jesus

Author: Harry Dixon Loes Hymnal: Favorites Number 1 #10 (1943) First Line: The Saviour came from heav'n to die on Calv'ry Refrain First Line: Tell me more of Jesus and of heaven Languages: English Tune Title: [The Saviour came from heav'n to die on Calv'ry]

Tell Me More of Jesus

Author: Harry Dixon Loes Hymnal: Singspiration One #63 (1941) First Line: The Saviour came from heav'n to die on Calv'ry Refrain First Line: Tell me more of Jesus and of heaven Languages: English Tune Title: [The Saviour came from heav'n to die on Calv'ry]

Tell Me More of Jesus

Author: Harry Dixon Loes Hymnal: Choice Hymns of the Faith #166 (1944) First Line: The Saviour came from heav'n to die on Calv'ry Refrain First Line: Tell me more of Jesus and of heaven Languages: English Tune Title: [The Saviour came from heav'n to die on Calv'ry]

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Harry Dixon Loes

1895 - 1965 Author of "Tell Me More of Jesus" in Favorites Number 1 Pseudonyms: Deal Bartells Born Harold Loes, the American gospel song writer took the middle name Dixon in honour of A. C. Dixon, the pastor of Moody Church at the time. Harry Dixon Loes studied at Moody Bible Institute, and after extensive training in music he served a number of churches with a ministry of music. From 1939 until his retirement he was a member of the music faculty of Moody Bible Institute. He wrote the lyrics for 1,500 gospel songs, and composed 3,000 tunes. One day in 1915, Paul Rader preached a sermon in Moody Church, in Chicago. His theme was, “All that I want is in Jesus.” In the congregation was young Harry Dixon Loes, then a senior at Moody Bible Institute, where he would eventually teach. Inspired by Dr. Rader’s message, Harry Loes wrote the words and music for a song he called "All Things in Jesus." It was first sung by the church’s youth group. Friends all around me are trying to find What the heart yearns for, by sin undermined; I have the secret, I know where ’tis found: Only true pleasures in Jesus abound. All that I want is in Jesus. He satisfies, joy He supplies; Life would be worthless without Him; All things in Jesus I find. Some carry burdens whose weight has for years Crushed them with sorrow and blinded with tears. Yet One stands ready to help them just now, If they will humbly in penitence bow. --http://wordwisehymns.com/2010/02/09/ ================== Harry Dixon Loes was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on October 20, 1892. After serving several churches as music director and later being active for more than twelve years in evangelist work, he joined the music faculty of Moody Bible Institute, in 1939, where he remained as a popular music teacher until his death in 1965. Mr. Loes was the writer of numerous gospel songs and choruses. One day, while listening to a sermon on the subject of Christ's atonement entitled “Blessed Redeemer,” Mr. Loes was inspired to compose this tune. He then sent the melody with the suggested title to Mrs. Christiansen, a friend for many years, asking her to write the text. The hymn first appeared in Songs of Redemption, compiled by Marin and Jelks, in 1920, and published by the Baptist Home Mission Board, Atlanta, Georgia. --http://www.gracecommunitycog.org/

Alfred B. Smith

1916 - 2001 Composer of "[The Saviour came from heav'n to die on Calv'ry]" in Favorites Number 1 Used pseudonym B. C. Laurelton ---------- In 1930, he began playing on radio broadcasts in Jersey City, New Jersey, on "The Old Fashioned Gospel Hour." After meeting Wendell P. Loveless, Alfred enrolled at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and became a member of the WMBI staff. During service as Minister of Music at The Church of the Open Door in Philadelphia, he taught at The Philadelphia School of the Bible in the fall of 1938. During that year, he wrote "For God So Loved the World" after visiting the ninety-four year-old hymn writer George C. Stebbins. Smith met Billy Graham when they were both students at Wheaton College. During their long collaboration, they founded Singspiration in 1941. After graduating from Wheaton, Smith, Graham, and George Beverly Shea started "Youth for Christ" in Chicago. --Daniel Mahraun (from livinghymns.org)