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Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
Author: Will L. Thompson Meter: 11.7.11.7 with refrain Appears in 870 hymnals Refrain First Line: Come home, come home Lyrics: 1 Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,
calling for you and for me;
see, on the portals he's waiting and watching,
watching for you and for me.
Refrain:
Come home, come home;
you who are weary come home;
earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,
calling, O sinner, come home!
2 Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,
pleading for you and for me?
Why should we linger and heed not his mercies,
mercies for you and for me? [Refrain]
3 Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing,
passing from you and from me;
shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming,
coming for you and for me. [Refrain]
4 O for the wonderful love he has promised,
promised for you and for me!
Though we have sinned, he has mercy and pardon,
pardon for you and for me. [Refrain]
United Methodist Hymnal, 1989 Topics: Warnings
Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
Jesus Is Calling
Author: Fanny Crosby Meter: 6.6.8.4 D Appears in 457 hymnals First Line: Jesus is tenderly calling you home Refrain First Line: Calling today! calling today!
Jesus Is Calling
Jesus is Calling
Author: Palmer Harlsough; T. S. C. Appears in 30 hymnals First Line: Jesus is calling, calling, calling Refrain First Line: They are so happy, happy, happy Lyrics: 1 Jesus is calling, calling, calling,
Jesus is calling today,
Why do you linger, linger, linger,
Why not arise and obey.
Chorus:
They are so happy, happy, happy;
Who do their Savior obey;
Why should you linger, linger, linger;
Come, be made happy today.
2 Jesus is pleading, pleading, pleading;
Why should you wander in sin,
While to him glory, glory, glory;
Gladly he'd welcome you in. [Chorus]
3 Jesus is waiting, waiting, waiting;
Open wide standeth the door,
Soon the night falleth, falleth, falleth;
Closed is the door evermore. [Chorus]
Used With Tune: [Jesus is calling, calling, calling]
Jesus is Calling
CALLING TODAY
Meter: Irregular Appears in 322 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George C. Stebbins Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 55553 45671 17676 Used With Text: Jesus Is Tenderly Calling
CALLING TODAY
[Jesus is calling for soldiers today]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel W. Beazley Used With Text: Answer the Captain Divine
[Jesus is calling for soldiers today]
Jesus is Calling
Author: Palmer Harlsough; T. S. C. Hymnal: The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship #226 (1938) First Line: Jesus is calling, calling, calling Refrain First Line: They are so happy, happy, happy Lyrics: 1 Jesus is calling, calling, calling,
Jesus is calling today,
Why do you linger, linger, linger,
Why not arise and obey.
Chorus:
They are so happy, happy, happy;
Who do their Savior obey;
Why should you linger, linger, linger;
Come, be made happy today.
2 Jesus is pleading, pleading, pleading;
Why should you wander in sin,
While to him glory, glory, glory;
Gladly he'd welcome you in. [Chorus]
3 Jesus is waiting, waiting, waiting;
Open wide standeth the door,
Soon the night falleth, falleth, falleth;
Closed is the door evermore. [Chorus]
Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is calling, calling, calling]
Jesus is Calling
Jesus Is Calling (Hartsough)
Author: Palmer Hartsough Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #3246 First Line: Jesus is calling, calling, calling Refrain First Line: They are so happy, happy, happy Lyrics: 1. Jesus is calling, calling, calling,
Jesus is calling today;
Why should I linger, linger, linger,
I will arise and away.
Refrain
They are so happy, happy, happy,
Who do their Savior obey;
Why should I linger, linger, linger?
I will arise and away.
2. Jesus is pleading, pleading, pleading,
Why should I wander in sin;
While to His glory, glory, glory,
Glad He would welcome me in. [Refrain]
3. Angels are watching, watching, watching,
Hoping that I will obey;
I will accept Him, love Him, serve Him,
Jesus, I’m coming today. [Refrain]
4. Jesus is waiting, waiting, waiting,
Open now standeth the door;
Soon the night falleth, falleth, falleth,
Closed are the gates evermore. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is calling, calling, calling]
Jesus Is Calling (Hartsough)
Jesus Is Calling
Author: Palmer Hartsough Hymnal: Clarion Call #62 (2002) First Line: Jesus is calling, calling, calling Refrain First Line: They are so happy, happy, happy Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is calling, calling, calling]
Jesus Is Calling
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Person Name: James Henry Fillmore, Sr. Composer of "[Jesus is calling, calling, calling]" in The Cyber Hymnal 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
Virgil P. Brock
1887 - 1978 Author of "Jesus Is Calling" in Zondervan's Choruses Brock, Virgil Prentiss. (Celina, Mercer County, Ohio, January 6, 1887--March 12, 1978, Rives Junction, Michigan). Son of Orlando H. and Elmira Brock. Education: Fairmount Friends Academy; Earlham College, B.A.; Cleveland Bible Institute and Training School; Trinity College, Honarary D.Sac.Mus. Member of the Quaker (Friends) Fellowship in the early years, but later was an evangelist in the Christian Church with membership in the First Christian Church of Warsaw, Indiana. In 1914, he married Blanche Kerr, who was his co-worker and collaborator for 43 years. They had one son, Dr. James Wilson Brock, professor of theatre at California State University, Northridge. Blanch Brock died January 3, 1958. In 1959, he married Martha Anderson, and they continued in church work until her death in 1969. He pastored several Quaker churches in the early years of his ministry, but most of his life's ministry was given to evangelistic endeavor. He authored more than 500 hymns and gospel songs, and one book, an autobiography, entitled You Asked for It. His two best-known hymns are: "He's a Wonderful Saviour to Me," published in 1918 by the Rodeheaver Co., and "Beyond the Sunset," published in 1936. Other hymns include "Sing and Smile and Pray," "Resting in His Love," "If You Could Know," "Keep Looking Up," "Men of God, Awake, Arise," and "I'll Still Live On."
He resided at Winona Lake, Indiana, for many years, and was closely associate with Homer Rodeheaver; most of his hymns were published by the Rodeheaver Company. During the last six years of his life, he lived at Youth Haven Ranch, Rives Junction, Michigan. At the time of his death at 91, he was still being called upon to present programs. He is buried by this first wife in Warsaw-Winona Lake Cemetary, and engraved on the large memorial monument are the words and music of their most famous hymn, "Beyond the Sunset."
--Carlton C. Buck, DNAH Archives
Virgil P. Brock
Palmer Hartsough
1844 - 1932 Person Name: Palmer Harlsough Author of "Jesus is Calling" in The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship Rv Palmer Hartsough USA 1844-1932. Born in Redford, MI, he attended Kalamazoo College and Michigan State Normal school (later MSU). He became an author, editor, lyricist, and librettist. After working as a traveling singing teacher in MI, IL, IA, OH, KY and TN, he opened a music studio in Rock Island, IL, around 1877, also directing music at a Baptist church there. In 1893, due to his poetic abilities, he moved to Cincinnati, OH, and joined the Fillmore Music Company, providing texts (over 1000) for their music. He also served as music director at the Bethel Mission and the 9th Street Baptist Church. He became a traveling song evangelist in 1903, and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1906, serving in Ontario, Canada, and MI from 1914 to 1927. He then returned to Plymouth, MI, where he lived the rest of his life. He never married, but was close to his two sisters, and wrote them a weekly letter for many years. With Fillmore Company he helped publish 20 songbooks. He died in Plymouth, MI.
John Perry
Palmer Hartsough
