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[I am not blessed with riches]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lucie E. Campbell Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 53333 21 Used With Text: Is He Yours?
[I am not blessed with riches]
Is He Yours?
Author: L. E. C. Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I am not blessed with riches Used With Tune: [I am not blessed with riches]
Is He Yours?
Is He Yours?
Author: Lucie E. Campbell Hymnal: The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) #379 (2001) First Line: I am not blessed with riches Lyrics: 1 I am not blessed with riches,
Am helpless as can be;
I'm sometimes void of shelter and of clothes;
I have this satisfaction
As I sail this stormy sea,
King Jesus is my Pilot,
Is He yours?
2 He's my water when I'm thirsty,
When hungry, He's my bread;
My protection from the stormy wind that blows;
My comfort when I'm lonely,
When other friends have fled;
This Friend will never leave you,
Is He hours?
3 You may be poor and helpless,
You may be old and gray;
Like Job, from head to foot be full of sores;
Just take your case to Jesus,
And your night will turn to day;
He's my joy, my hope, my comfort,
Is He yours?
4 He satisfied my mother
When death came stealing on.
She used to say when e'er my eyelids close,
"My Jesus will be with me,
And take me safely home;
For years He's been my Doctor,
Is He yours?" Topics: Assurance; Faith; Testimony Languages: English Tune Title: [I am not blessed with riches]
Is He Yours?
Is He Yours?
Author: L. E. C. Hymnal: The New National Baptist Hymnal #291 (1977) First Line: I am not blessed with riches Languages: English Tune Title: [I am not blessed with riches]
Is He Yours?
Lucie Eddie Campbell
1885 - 1963 Person Name: L. E. C. Author of "Is He Yours?" in The New National Baptist Hymnal Lucie Eddie Campbell, April 30, 1885–January 3, 1963, one of nine children born to parents who were slaves in Mississippi. She moved to Memphis with her mother after her father died when she was two years old. Became first Music Director of newly formed Education arm for the new National Baptist Convention formed in 1916 in Memphis. In 1919 at a NBC convention in Atlantic City, Campbell introduced a young, blind singer, Connie Rosemond, who electrified the delegates with his rendition of Campbell’s first gospel hymn, “Something Within.”
Campbell met Rosemond on the famous Beale St in Memphis. She heard a man betting $10 that he could make the blind youngster “get down in the alley” an expression for singing the blues. The young man refused to sing, saying I’m trying to be a Christian in this dark world, and I believe I have found a way out of this darkness into light. I can’t explain it, but there’s something within me. His words inspired Lucy Campbell to write her first song, Something Within, which was the first gospel hymn written by a
black woman.
At this same convention in 1919, Campbell introduced singer Marion Anderson to the world as she accompanied her. Anderson would go to become a world-renowned classical contralto singer. Lucie Campbell was also good friends with Thomas A Dorsey, who wrote Peace in the Valley and Precious Lord, Take My Hand, was the first African American inducted into the Gospel Music H.O.F.
Jim Westmoreland from "Lucie E. Campbell: Baptist Composer and Educator," by Luvenia A. George and Ada Gilkey in The Black Perspective in Music, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 24-49.
Lucie Eddie Campbell
