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[My heavenly home is bright and fair]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Dr. S. B. Jackson Incipit: 13333 55543 33212 Used With Text: I Feel Like Traveling On

I Feel Like Traveling On

Author: Wm. Hunter Appears in 608 hymnals First Line: My heav'nly home is bright and fair Used With Tune: [My heavenly home is bright and fair]

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Author: Wm. Hunter Hymnal: Songs of the Pentecost for the Forward Gospel Movement #63 (1894) First Line: My heav'nly home is bright and fair Languages: English Tune Title: [My heavenly home is bright and fair]

I Feel Like Traveling On

Author: Wm. Hunter Hymnal: Gospel Hymn Selections for female voices #82 (1895) First Line: My heav'nly home is bright and fair Languages: English Tune Title: [My heav'nly home is bright and fair]

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William Hunter

1811 - 1877 Person Name: Wm. Hunter Author of "I Feel Like Traveling On" in Songs of the Pentecost for the Forward Gospel Movement Hunter, William, D.D, son of John Hunter, was born near Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, May 26, 1811. He removed to America in 1817, and entered Madison College in 1830. For some time he edited the Conference Journal, and the Christian Advocate. In 1855 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew in Alleghany College: and subsequently Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Alliance, Stark Country, Ohio. He died in 1877. He edited Minstrel of Zion, 1845; Select Melodies, 1851; and Songs of Devotion, 1859. His hymns, over 125 in all, appeared in these works. Some of these have been translated into various Indian languages. The best known are :— 1. A home in heaven; what a joyful thought. Heaven a Home. From his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, into the Methodist Scholar's Hymn Book, London, 1870, &c. 2. Joyfully, joyfully onward I [we] move. Pressing towards Heaven. This hymn is usually dated 1843. It was given in his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, and Select Melodies, 1851, and his Songs of Devotion, 1859. It has attained to great popularity. Two forms of the hymn are current, the original, where the second stanza begins "Friends fondly cherished, have passed on before"; and the altered form, where it reads: “Teachers and Scholars have passed on before." Both texts are given in W. F. Stevenson's Hymns for Church & Home, 1873, Nos. 79, 80, c. 3. The [My] heavenly home is bright and fair. Pressing towards Heaven. From his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, into the Cottage Melodies, New York, 1859, and later collections. 4. The Great Physician now is near. Christ the Physician. From his Songs of Devotion, 1859 5. Who shall forbid our grateful[chastened]woe? This hymn, written in 1843, was published in his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, and in his Songs of Devotion, 1859. [ Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[My heavenly home is bright and fair] (Gabriel 13333)" Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman

S. B. Jackson

1856 - 1932 Person Name: Dr. S. B. Jackson Composer of "[My heavenly home is bright and fair]" in Songs of the Pentecost for the Forward Gospel Movement Pseudonym. See Gabriel, Charles Hutchinson, 1856-1932