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[O heart, forget your sorrow]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Used With Text: Sunlight Just Beyond
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Author: Ada Powell Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O heart, forget your sorrow Refrain First Line: There's sunlight, blessed sunlight Lyrics: 1 O heart, forget your sorrow, The clouds are passing by, And in the distant gleaming A rainbow in the sky! Refrain: There’s sunlight, blessed sunlight, Let not your heart despond! The clouds will soon be passing, There’s sunlight just beyond. 2 Look for the glad tomorrow, Forget your tears and pain; Live not among the shadows, The sun will shine again. [Refrain] 3 O heart, forget your sorrow, Watch for the dawn of day! God’s love is all around you— There’s sunshine on the way! [Refrain] Used With Tune: [O heart, forget your sorrow]
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Sunlight Just Beyond

Author: Ada Powell Hymnal: Williston Hymns #95 (1917) First Line: O heart, forget your sorrow Refrain First Line: There's sunlight, blessed sunlight Lyrics: 1 O heart, forget your sorrow, The clouds are passing by, And in the distant gleaming A rainbow in the sky! Refrain: There’s sunlight, blessed sunlight, Let not your heart despond! The clouds will soon be passing, There’s sunlight just beyond. 2 Look for the glad tomorrow, Forget your tears and pain; Live not among the shadows, The sun will shine again. [Refrain] 3 O heart, forget your sorrow, Watch for the dawn of day! God’s love is all around you— There’s sunshine on the way! [Refrain] Tune Title: [O heart, forget your sorrow]
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Author: Ada Powell Hymnal: Sweeter Than All Songs #264 (1927) First Line: O heart, forget your sorrow Tune Title: [O heart, forget your sorrow]
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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[O heart, forget your sorrow]" in Williston Hymns 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
Chas. H. Gabriel

Ada Powell

Author of "Sunlight Just Beyond" in Williston Hymns
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