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[Jesus is the Friend to trust]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 35134 64351 32351

Author: Fronia Smith Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Jesus is the Friend to trust Refrain First Line: Gently will He lead us on Lyrics: 1 Jesus is the Friend to trust, As in doubt we go, Knowing not the path to take, Trav’ling here below. Chorus: Gently will He lead us on, In the heav’nly way, Till we reach the happy home, Where the angels stay. 2 All our many troubles here, Love like his can soothe, Ev’ry rough place in our path, He will gently smooth. [Chorus] 3 If we heed His gentle call, Trusting in His love, He will bring us safe at last, To that home above. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [Jesus is the Friend to trust]

Love Is Knocking at Thy Heart

Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Rich art thou in worldly lore Used With Tune: [Rich art thou in worldly lore]

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Gently He Leads Us

Author: Fronia Smith Hymnal: Gems and Jewels #53 (1890) First Line: Jesus is the Friend to trust Refrain First Line: Gently will He lead us on Lyrics: 1 Jesus is the Friend to trust, As in doubt we go, Knowing not the path to take, Trav’ling here below. Chorus: Gently will He lead us on, In the heav’nly way, Till we reach the happy home, Where the angels stay. 2 All our many troubles here, Love like his can soothe, Ev’ry rough place in our path, He will gently smooth. [Chorus] 3 If we heed His gentle call, Trusting in His love, He will bring us safe at last, To that home above. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is the Friend to trust]

Gently He Leads Us

Author: Fronia Smith Hymnal: Zion's Praises (1st ed.) #13 (1903) First Line: Jesus is the Friend to trust Refrain First Line: Gently He will lead us on Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is the Friend to trust]

Love Is Knocking at Thy Heart

Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman Hymnal: Songs of Rejoicing #69 (1888) First Line: Rich art thou in worldly lore Languages: English Tune Title: [Rich art thou in worldly lore]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Jesus is the Friend to trust]" in Gems and Jewels 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

Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

1843 - 1943 Author of "Love Is Knocking at Thy Heart" in Songs of Rejoicing Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018)