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The Cross My Boast
Author: Vivian A. Dake Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: What have I on earth to boast of? Refrain First Line: Jesus hung on Calvary's mountain Used With Tune: [What have I on earth to boast of?]
The Cross My Boast
[What have I on earth to boast of]
Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Fannie Birdsall Incipit: 32432 11743 46523 Used With Text: The Cross My Boast
[What have I on earth to boast of]
What Have I to Boast of?
Author: Vivian A. Dake Hymnal: Light and Life Songs No. 2 #144 (1914) First Line: What on earth have I to boast of Refrain First Line: Jesus hung on Calv'ry's mountain Lyrics: 1 What on earth have I to boast of?
Why are gifts so glorious mine?
God and heav’n am I the heir of;
Why dos Thou, Lord, claim me Thine?
Refrain:
Jesus hung on Calv’ry’s mountain,
Cried and groaned, and bled for me,
And from out the cleansing fountain
Poured the stream that sets me free.
2 Jesus died, the God life bringing;
Jesus wept, my tears to stay;
Jesus groaned to give me singing;
Bore the night to give me day. [Refrain]
3 He was poor to give me treasure;
He was slave to make me king;
He was hated without measure,
Heaven’s love to me to bring. [Refrain]
4 Have I joy, ‘twas sorrow bought it;
Have I pow’r, or grace, or love,
Have I wealth, ‘twas Jesus brought it
Down to me from heav’n above. [Refrain]
5 Hark! I hear ‘mid every pleasure,
Sounds of Calvary’s mournful night,
And behold by every treasure,
Calvary’s cross appears in sight. [Refrain]
6 Where then, where is room for boasting,
In the sight of Calvary’s cross;
In the blood alone I’m trusting,
Counting earthly things but loss. [Refrain]
Languages: English Tune Title: [What on earth have I to boast of]
What Have I to Boast of?
The Cross My Boast
Author: Vivian A. Dake Hymnal: The Joy Bells of Canaan or Burning Bush Songs No. 2 #96 (1905) First Line: What have I on earth to boast of Refrain First Line: Jesus hung on Calv’ry’s mountain Lyrics: 1 What have I on earth to boast of?
Why are gifts so glorious mine?
God and Heav’n am I the heir of;
Why dos Thou, Lord, claim me Thine?
Refrain:
Jesus hung on Calv’ry’s mountain,
Cried and groaned, and bled for me,
And from out the cleansing fountain
Poured the stream that sets me free.
2 Jesus died, the God-life bringing;
Jesus wept, my tears to stay;
Jesus groaned to give me singing;
Bore Hell’s night to give me day. [Refrain]
3 He was poor to give me treasure;
He was slave to make me king;
He was hated without measure,
Heaven’s love to me to bring. [Refrain]
4 Have I joy, ‘twas sorrow bought it;
Have I pow’r, or grace, or love,
Have I wealth, ‘twas Jesus brought it
Down to me from Heav’n above. [Refrain]
5 Hark! I hear mid ev’ry pleasure,
Sounds of Calv’ry’s mournful night,
And behold by ev’ry treasure,
Calv’ry’s cross appears in sight. [Refrain]
6 Where then, where is room for boasting?
In the sight of Calv’ry’s cross;
In the blood alone I’m trusting,
Counting earthly things but loss. [Refrain] Scripture: Galatians 6:14 Languages: English Tune Title: [What have I on earth to boast of]
The Cross My Boast
What Have I to Boast of?
Author: Vivian A. Dake Hymnal: Light and Life Songs No. 4 #95 (1928) First Line: What on earth have I to boast of Refrain First Line: Jesus hung on Calv'ry's mountain Languages: English Tune Title: [What on earth have I to boast of]
What Have I to Boast of?
Fannie Birdsall Bula
1864 - 1926 Person Name: Fannie Birdsall Composer of "[What have I on earth to boast of]" in The Joy Bells of Canaan or Burning Bush Songs No. 2 Born: October 24, 1864. Died: February 9, 1926. Buried: Floral Park Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Fannie was the daughter of Paul Birdsall, and wife of George Elza Bula. Her works include:
Heart Lessons from the Beatitudes (Chicago, Illinois: Christian Witness Company, 1911)
Sources: Findagrave, accessed 15 Nov 2016
© The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)
Fannie Birdsall Bula
Vivian A. Dake
1854 - 1892 Author of "The Cross My Boast" in The Joy Bells of Canaan or Burning Bush Songs No. 2 Born: February 9, 1854, Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois.
Died: January 5, 1892, on a ship near Sierra Leone.
Buried: At sea.
Dake was the founder of the Pentacost Bands (not Pentecostal) that evangelized Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Ohio. He was on a missionary trip at the time of his death.
--www.hymntime.com/tch
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Vivian Adelbert Dake, the oldest of five children was born February 9, 1854, in Oregon, Agle County, Illinois, to Athelia Merrill Dake and Jonathon Woodcock Dake. Jonathan Dake was at this time pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1860, he and his wife enrolled as charter members of the newly organized Free Methodist Church. Vivian, who was then six years of age, grew up in the Free Methodist Church, becoming one of its able preachers.
His desire for an education was granted through an unusual circumstance; directly connected to the founder and first Bishop of the Free Methodist Church, Benjamin Titus Roberts. At a camp meeting in 1867, the bishop was raising money for seminary buildings at North Chili, New York, one of the first to give was a poorly dressed young teenager who gave ten cents. In 1870, after the school was established, this story was repeated in another camp meeting with an appeal for someone to support this boy in school, as his parents were unable to help him. A man responded to the need.
When Vivian heard the news he could go to school, he was jubilant, causing him to turn a somersault and stand on his head. He entered Chili Seminary in 1872, at eighteen years of age. Following graduation, he entered Rochester University, completing only three terms before leaving to begin his ministry. He preached his first sermon July 12, 1874, at Jefferson, Iowa. In the spring of 1876, he taught a course in Greek at the Seminary.
Dake was married to Lenna Bailey at Birmingham, Iowa, in October 1876. In this same month, he was appointed by the Illinois Conference to the St. Charles Church. Because of his wife's frail health, he was not able to accept. They accepted work in the Iowa Conference where the climate was more suitable. Mrs. Dake died in December, 1876. On January 30, 1878, he married Ida Campbell of Fairfield, Iowa. The couple's son, Bertie, died at the age of three, shortly before the birth of their daughter Mary, in December 1881. Two more daughters, Carrie and Ruth, were born to this union.
From 1876 to 1881, he served churches in the Iowa Conference; also traveling widely as an evangelist. He received his ordination as elder at the Iowa Conference in September 1881. In 1882, he joined the Minnesota and Northern Iowa Conference, receiving an appointment as conference missionary. It was during this year, in a revival meeting lasting nearly 3 months, that he wrote his first song, entitled "My Cross."
In 1885, he joined the Michigan Conference and was appointed as Conference evangelist. It was at Parma, Michigan, on July 25, 1885, that the Pentecost Bands were permanently started by Dake.
Dake's work centered in the Pentecost Bands. These consisted of groups of itinerant evangelists; mainly young people, who were assigned to do evangelistic work in dozens of cities in the United States and around the world. In this he was ahead of his generation. From 1889 until his death, Dake traveled in Germany, England, Norway, and Monrovia.
It was while in Monrovia that he contracted a tropical disease and died on January 5, 1892, in Sierra Leone.
His biographer lists more than forty hymns and prems written by Dake, the most famous and most characteristic of his works being "We'll Girdle the Globe with Salvation." This particular song, the composer of which was his wife, Ida, appeared in the 1910 edition of the Free Methodist Hymnal.
--Arlene Clyde, DNAH Archives
Vivian A. Dake
