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Oh, enter now! say, why not enter now?
Author: Lizzie Edwards Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Awakening and Exhortation First Line: Outside the gate, and yet so near the fountain
Oh, enter now! say, why not enter now?
Come and trust my Saviour
Author: M. W. Morse Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Awakening and Exhortation First Line: Listen to the voice of Jesus
Come and trust my Saviour
Calling, oh, hear him
Author: Gerhard Tersteegen Appears in 420 hymnals Topics: Awakening and Exhortation First Line: God calling yet! shall I not hear?
Calling, oh, hear him
There's a stranger at the door, let him in
Author: Rev. J. B. Atchinson Hymnal: The Sacred Trio #14 (1892) Topics: Awakening and Exhortation
There's a stranger at the door, let him in
Ye must be born again
Author: W. T. Sleeper Hymnal: The Sacred Trio #23 (1892) Topics: Awakening and Exhortation First Line: A ruler once came to Jesus by night
Ye must be born again
Eternity! eternity!
Author: Mrs. Ellen M. H. Gates Hymnal: The Sacred Trio #24 (1892) Topics: Awakening and Exhortation First Line: Oh, the clanging bells of Time!
Eternity! eternity!
James Nicholson
1828 - 1896 Topics: Awakening and Exhortation Author of "Then we'll watch for the Bridegroom" in The Sacred Trio James L Nicholson United Kingdom/USA 1828-1876. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States around age 25. He lived in Philadelphia, PA, worked as a postal clerk, and was a member of the Wharton Street Methodist Episcopal Church there for about 20 years, where he taught Sunday school, led singing in church, and assisted in evangelical work. This was also hymn writer, William J Kirkpatrick’s, church. Around 1871 he moved to Washington, DC, and worked as a postal clerk there. In addition to his hymn writing, he also wrote several books, one on birds and their care, one on forensic medicine. He died in Washington, DC, but was buried in Philadelphia, PA.
John Perry
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Nicholson, James, an American Methodist minister, is the author of (1) "Dear [Lord] Jesus I long to be perfectly whole" (Holiness desired); and (2) "There's a beautiful land on high " (Heaven), both of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
James Nicholson
William T. Sleeper
1819 - 1904 Person Name: W. T. Sleeper Topics: Awakening and Exhortation Author of "Ye must be born again" in The Sacred Trio Sleeper, W. T. is given in I. D. Sankey’s Sacred Songs & Solos, 1881, as the author of “A ruler once came to Jesus by night” (Need for the New Birth).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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William T. Sleeper (1819-1904)]
Born: February 9, 1819, Danbury, New Hampshire.
Died: September 24, 1904, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Sleeper attended Phillips-Exeter Academy, the University of Vermont, and the Andover Theological Seminary. After ordination, he conducted home ministry work in Massachusetts and Maine. He later became pastor of the Summer Street Congregational Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he served over 30 years. His works include:
The Rejected King, and Hymns of Jesus, 1883.
-- www.hymntime.com
William T. Sleeper
H. L. Gilmour
1836 - 1920 Person Name: Dr. H. L. Gilmour Topics: Awakening and Exhortation Author of "How restless the soul of the wand'rer from Jesus!" in The Sacred Trio Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident.
John Perry
H. L. Gilmour
