Search Results

Switch back to the old search page.Advanced Search

Send Out the Life-boat

Author: Lanta Wilson Smith Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: There are wrecks along the shore

[There are wrecks along the shore]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: F. A. Blackmer Refrain First Line: Send out the life-boat Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 34312 16512 31532 Used With Text: Send Out the Life-boat

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Send Out the Life-boat

Author: L. W. Smith Hymnal: Singing by the Way (Rev. ed.) #63 (1897) First Line: There are wrecks along the shore Lyrics: 1 There are wrecks along the shore, Going down on ev'ry side, 'Mid the crashing breakers' roar, And the surging, foaming tide. Faintly over rock and reef Comes the agonizing cry, "Send, oh! send us quick relief! Ere we parish ere we die." Chorus: Sind out the life-boat, Throw out the line! Jesus is calling in mercy divine; Thousands of time wrecks are sinking in sin, Speed thro' the tempest and gather them in. 2 Anxious friends are waiting lone, For an absent, wayward child; Hearing not the saddened moan, Thro' the darkness, strange and wild. Hear the mother's earnest plea, Going up to heav'n and God, "Send, oh! send Thy help to me! Let me lean upon Thy rod." [Chorus] 3 "May some angel from above, Guard my child from ev'ry ill; God of mercy! God love, May it be Thy blessed will, Now to save my darling boy! Send some strong and loving hand, Ere the waves of sin destroy, That shall bring him safe to land." [Chorus] 4 Christian! listen to the voice, To the rescue, haste away! Let the sons of God rejoice At the vic'try gained today. Christian! heed thy Saviour's call, Gladly His sweet will obey; Point the dying, sinking soul, To the Life the Truth, the Way. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [There are wrecks along the shore]

Send Out the Life-Boat

Author: L. W. Smith Hymnal: Heaven's Echo #78 (1895) First Line: There are wrecks along the shore Languages: English Tune Title: [There are wrecks along the shore]

Send Out the Life-Boat

Author: L. W. Smith Hymnal: Sunlight in Sacred Song #132 (1892) First Line: There are wrecks along the shore Languages: English Tune Title: [There are wrecks along the shore]

People

Authors, composers, editors, etc.

Lanta Wilson Smith

1856 - 1939 Person Name: L. W. Smith Refrain First Line: Send out the life-boat Author of "Send Out the Life-boat" in Singing by the Way (Rev. ed.) Lanta Wilson Smith was born July 19, 1856 at Castine, Maine, and died October 19, 1939 at Taunton, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of a Methodist minister, William J. Wilson, and his wife Sedelia Follett. Her father belonged to the Maine, and later the East Maine Conferences from 1846 until 1866, when he with his family traveled in a covered wagon to the west, where he served as minister in Nebraska and Dakota. Later he returned to New England and founded out his sixty-four years in the ministry at an appointment in Hingham, Massachusetts. From her early childhood Lanta sang and played the organ in church and Sunday school wherever her father was located. When seventeen she attended Bucksport Seminary, Maine, where she received some instruction in music, and where she began to write stories for the church papers. When David C. Cook introduced music and hymns into his publications, Lanta began to write hymns, some of which were used by him. She received assistance from such prominent composers as T. Martin Towne and E. O. Excell. "Scatter Sunshine" [see link below] was perhaps her most popular hymn. It was set to music by Mr. Excell and became such a favorite that he wrote her, "My, my, how I wish you would write another hymn like that. It has proved such a success that I believe I will send you a draft for twenty-five dollars to let you know how much I appreciate the hymn. Possibly this will inspire you to write another equally as good." Mrs. T. M. Towne attended the Christian Endeavor Convention in Washington in 1896, and after her return she wrote Mrs. Smith: "It's wonderful how the great chorus sang your hymn "Scatter Sunshine". A missionary in Japan asked, "May I not have, in your handwriting and over your signature, your beautiful hymn "Scatter Sunshine"? The possession and care of such a kindly souvenir of yourself will often cause me to remember you with gratiude and bring to kindly remembrance the brightness your message has brought to many a life." This request was complied with. The hymn has been adopted as the official hymn of the National Sunshine Society. Shortly after the convention just referred to Mr. Towne sent her a subject - Heaven - and insisted that the last line of the chorus should be "Is Jesus high over them all?" She writes, - "To build up a verse to match a last line beginning with "Is" was something new, and he wanted it in a hurry." When he wrote back he said "Hurrah, I knew you could do it." Asa Hull was another voluminous composer for whom she wrote hymns. In 1880 Miss Wilson married Rev. C. Hartley Smith, and for twelve years they preached and ministered in Dakota. Both were musicians, and wherever they made calls, they were ask to sing some of the beloved hymns of the church. On returning east Mr. Smith joined the New England Southern Conference, and completed thirty-seven years of preaching. Mrs. Smith wrote more than five hundred poems, articles and hymns, the greater part of this number being hymns. Her songs were written for many occasions, Children's Day, Christmas and Easter; there were also temperance hymns and three cantatas. Of one of her songs, "The saints shall have dominion in the morning", Professor Black thought she was giving the saints too much, but when she sent him a large sheet of paper filled with Bible references to the saints, he replied, "I give up. The saints are in for a pretty good time." She left her singing voice out on the prairie, but continued to write even to her eightieth year. --http://heirloomsreunited.blogspot.com/2010/11/, posting a scan of her biography originally published in The Choir Herald, vol.50, n.6 (March 1947): 150-151.

F. A. Blackmer

1855 - 1930 Refrain First Line: Send out the life-boat Composer of "[There are wrecks along the shore]" in Singing by the Way (Rev. ed.) Blackmer, Francis Augustus. (Ware, Massachusetts, February 17, 1855--October 8, 1930, Somerville, Massachusetts). Advent Christian musician. His parents, Augustus and Jane Blackmer, were among those caught up in the excitement of the Millerite Movement. One son, Fred, became an Advent Christian minister. Francis, with a talent recognized at an early age, consecrated his own life to Christian service as a musician. He was immersed in baptism at the Adventist campmeeting in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Elder Miles Grant. His early years were spend in central Massachusetts, his schooling at Wilbraham Academy. He was largely self-taught in harmony and musical composition. He wrote the words and music to his first gospel song, "Out on the fathomless sea," at the age of sixteen. Altogether he wrote over 300 gospel songs about the Second Coming, witnessing and working for the Lord, and praises to God's Holy Name. A few of these have circulated widely outside his own denomination. His final text, "I shall see him, And be like him," came when he was so weak that his friend, Clarence M. Seamans, had to supply the music. He used the pseudonym, A. Francis, with some of his early songs. Blackmer's first anthology was The Gospel Awakening, (1888). Subsequent gospel songbooks with which he was associated were: Singing by the Way (1895), Carols of Hope (1906), The Golden Sheaf, No. 2 (1916), and Songs of Coming Glory (1926). Most of his adult life was spent in Somerville, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, where he had a prosperous piano business. In the 1890s, his "Francis A. Blackmer Pianos" were made for him by the Washington Hall Piano Company of Boston. Later, his "Good as Gold Pianos" were manufactured by the Christman Piano Company of New York City and shipped directly to his customers throughout New England. In Somerville, Blackmer served as choirmaster and song-leader in the Advent Christian Church for many years. He was also an elder of the church until his death. From 1914 until his death, he was songleader at the mid-summer Alton Bay Campmeeting on Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hapshire. There his High Rock Hill was both a salesroom and a summer cottage over the years. He was a member of the board of directors of the campmeeting association for several years. Very popular were his singing sessions on the campground square between suppertim and evening services, and a final sing into the small hours of the night following the final service of the campmeeting. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives