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[I've wonder'd oft when I've been told]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 55561 44333 21232 Used With Text: I Know it Was His Love

Author: D. R. Lucas Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: I've wonder'd oft when I've been told Refrain First Line: But now I know it was His love Used With Tune: [I've wonder'd oft when I've been told]

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I've Wondered Oft

Author: D. R. Lucas Hymnal: Joy and Praise #182 (1908) First Line: I've wonder'd oft when I've been told Refrain First Line: But now I know it was His love Languages: English Tune Title: [I've wonder'd oft when I've been told]

I Know It Was His Love

Author: D. R. Lucas Hymnal: Favorite Solos #138 (1908) First Line: I've wondered oft when I've been told Refrain First Line: But now I know it was His love Languages: English Tune Title: [I've wondered oft when I've been told]

I Know it Was His Love

Author: D. R. Lucas Hymnal: Gems and Jewels #130 (1890) First Line: I've wonder'd oft when I've been told Refrain First Line: But now I know it was His love Lyrics: 1 I’ve wonder’d oft when I’ve been told How Jesus came to die for me; What made Him leave the heav’nly fold, To suffer on the cruel tree? Chorus: But now I know it was His love, ‘Twas love for man so freely giv’n, That brought Him from His home above, He came to show the way to heav’n. 2 I’ve wonder’d why He stoop’d so low, The shameful cross to silent bear, To live obscure, to suffer woe, The odious crown of thorns to wear? [Chorus] 3 I’ve wonder’d why, with all His pow’r, He spake no word of bitterness, But met the sad derisive hour With pray’r to God His foes to bless? [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [I've wonder'd oft when I've been told]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[I've wonder'd oft when I've been told]" in Joy and Praise 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

D. R. Lucas

1840 - 1907 Author of "I've Wondered Oft" in Joy and Praise Daniel Robertson Lucas, b. Belvidere, Boone County, Ill., January 14, 1840; m. Mary Longley in 1862; joined 99th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and appointed chaplain of the regiment; later studied for the ministry; in 1876, settled in Des Moines, Iowa, where he pastored the Central Christian Church and helped found Drake University; Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic and secretary of the Morton Monument Commission; d. March 11, 1907 From Daniel R. Lucas papers, WWW site, Mar. 18, 2004 ====================== Daniel Robertson Lucas, son of Albert and Catherine Robertson Lucas, was born in Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois, on January 14, 1840. In 1858, his family moved to Indiana where he enrolled at the Indiana Normal Institute at Burnettsville, White County, and began preaching at the local Christian church. After his marriage to Mary Longley in 1862, Lucas joined Company C Ninety Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry as a Second Lieutenant. On October 24, 1862, he was appointed chaplain of the regiment. Eighteen months later, he was transferred to the office of provost marshal where he served until the close of the War. The Ninety Ninth fought in the Vicksburg campaign, the second battle of Jackson, the Chatanooga campaign, the battle of Missionary Ridge, and many skirmishes. After the War, Lucas studied for the ministry. In 1876, he settled in Des Moines, Iowa, where he pastored the Central Christian Church and helped found Drake University. In 1888, he returned to Indiana to pastor the Central Christian Church of Indianapolis. Lucas was Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic and secretary of the Morton Monument Commission. At the time of his death on March 11, 1907, he was pastor of the Seventh Church in Indianapolis. Source: Cauble, Commodore Wesley. Disciples of Christ in Indiana: Achievements of a Century. Indianapolis: Meigs Publishing, 1930, page Daniel R. Lucas, 1840-1907, was probably the youngest chaplain in the Civil War in Indiana. Soon after that conflict he studied for the ministry and did a great work, being pastor of the Central Church, Indianapolis, and also the Seventh Church. He was a very popular speaker for the Grand Army of the Republic and was secretary of the Morton Monument Commission. He was pastor of the Seventh Church at the time of his death. --http://www.therestorationmovement.com/lucas.htm