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Tell the Promises Over to Me
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: When the burden is heavy and courage is faint Used With Tune: [When the burden is heavy and courage is faint]
Tell the Promises Over to Me
[When the burden is heavy and courage is faint]
Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Victor H. Benke Incipit: 12321 43231 65335 Used With Text: Tell the Promises Over to Me
[When the burden is heavy and courage is faint]
Tell the Promises Over to Me
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Voices of Praise #2 (1909) First Line: When the burden is heavy and courage is faint Languages: English Tune Title: [When the burden is heavy and courage is faint]
Tell the Promises Over to Me
Tell the Promises Over to Me
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Jubilant Praise #4 (1909) First Line: When the burden is heavy and courage is faint Languages: English Tune Title: [When the burden is heavy and courage is faint]
Tell the Promises Over to Me
Tell the Promises Over to Me
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Inspiring Hymns #34 (1914) First Line: When the burden is heavy and courage is faint Languages: English Tune Title: [When the burden is heavy and courage is faint]
Tell the Promises Over to Me
Jessie Brown Pounds
1861 - 1921 Author of "Tell the Promises Over to Me" in Inspiring Hymns 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
Victor H. Benke
1872 - 1904 Composer of "[When the burden is heavy and courage is faint]" in Inspiring Hymns Victor H. Benke was born on July 1872, Ratibor, Germany (now Racibórz, Poland). He emigrated to America at the of age 21. He served as the regular organist at the Bowery Mission in New York City for a number of years. He settled in Brooklyn where he gave piano and organ lessons and composed music. He worked with Fanny Crosby, who wrote words to a number of his pieces, and Ira Sankey. He also played the organ for Dwight Moody in his evangelistic work. Benke died on July 15, 1904 in New York. [Sources: Crosby, pp. 535, 562]
NN, Hymnary. Source: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/e/n/benke_vh.htm
Victor H. Benke
