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J. S. Fearis
1867 - 1932 Composer of "[Father, eternal, as I draw near]" in The King's Message John Sylvester Fearis, 1867-1932
Born: February 5, 1867, Richland, Iowa.
Died: September 2, 1932, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Fearis’ father was a successful singing school teacher, and a painter by trade. At a young age, John learned to read music in his father’s classes. He was passionately fond of music, and, taking lessons on the reed organ, he was soon able to play in Sunday school and church. Later he took charge of the church choir, and taught singing classes in nearby towns. He wrote his first hymn tune at age 16. He eventually joined the editorial staff of the Choir Leader, published by the Lorenz Publishing Company in Dayton, Ohio.
Sources--
Choir Herald, December 1932, p. 219
Emurian, p. 17
Hall, pp. 393-4
Lyrics--
Brightly Beams Another Morning
Children’s Day
Show Me the Way, My Shepherd
What Comfort to Our Hearts
What Wonderful Love Is the Love
Music--
Be Thou Exalted
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
God May Call for You
Little Raindrops
Promise Made to Mother, The
Songs in the Night
Show Me the Way, My Shepherd
There’s Light for a Step
Wherever He Leads Me I’ll Go
--hymntime.com/tch
J. S. Fearis
Miriam E. Arnold
Author of "Teach me to pray" in The King's Message Miriam E. Arnold was born in England, but moved with her parents at the age of five. They settled in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Her family was deeply religious. Her first poem was published in 1895 and she continued to write about 100 others, almost all of which have been set to music.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Miriam E. Arnold
