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[Oh, speak kind words where'er you be]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55345 13215 61465 Used With Text: Kind Words are Always Best
[Oh, speak kind words where'er you be]
Kind Words are Always Best
Author: Eben E. Rexford Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Oh, speak kind words, where'er you be Lyrics: 1 Oh, speak kind words where'er you be,
As thro' this world you go,
Let kindly deeds beside your path
Like flow'rs of beauty grow;
The fragrance of a loving word
Will linger in the heart,
As sweetness haunts the flow'rs we prize
When summer days depart.
Chorus:
Kind words are always best,
Kind words are always best;
You will find, where'er you go,
Kind words are always best.
2 Yes, speak kind words in ev'ry place,
Although you do not know
The good your loving words may do
To those who need them so;
For God will know and surely he
In his good time and way,
The giver of a helpful word
Will royally repay. [Chorus]
3 Then, speak kind words whate'er you do;
Too brief is human life
To waste the hours as they go by
In discord and in strife;
Give one and all a loving word
Just put them to the test,
And you will find in ev'ry place
Kind words are always best. [Chorus] Scripture: Proverbs 15:1 Used With Tune: [Oh, speak kind words where'er you be]
Kind Words are Always Best
Kind Words are Always Best
Author: Eben E. Rexford Hymnal: Junior Songs #145 (1892) First Line: Oh, speak kind words, where'er you be Lyrics: 1 Oh, speak kind words where'er you be,
As thro' this world you go,
Let kindly deeds beside your path
Like flow'rs of beauty grow;
The fragrance of a loving word
Will linger in the heart,
As sweetness haunts the flow'rs we prize
When summer days depart.
Chorus:
Kind words are always best,
Kind words are always best;
You will find, where'er you go,
Kind words are always best.
2 Yes, speak kind words in ev'ry place,
Although you do not know
The good your loving words may do
To those who need them so;
For God will know and surely he
In his good time and way,
The giver of a helpful word
Will royally repay. [Chorus]
3 Then, speak kind words whate'er you do;
Too brief is human life
To waste the hours as they go by
In discord and in strife;
Give one and all a loving word
Just put them to the test,
And you will find in ev'ry place
Kind words are always best. [Chorus] Scripture: Proverbs 15:1 Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, speak kind words where'er you be]
Kind Words are Always Best
Kind Words are Always Best
Author: Eben E. Rexford Hymnal: Winning Songs #145 (1892) First Line: Oh, speak kind words, where'er you be Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, speak kind words, where'er you be]
Kind Words are Always Best
Kind Words Are Always Best
Author: Eben E. Rexford Hymnal: The Standard Sunday School Hymnal #190 (1888) First Line: O, speak kind words where'er you be Languages: English Tune Title: [O, speak kind words where'er you be]
Kind Words Are Always Best
Eben E. Rexford
1848 - 1916 Author of "Kind Words Are Always Best" Rexford, Eben Eugene.M (Johnsburg, New York, July 16, 1848--October 16, 1916, Shiocton, Wisconsin). Horticulturalist and editor of a Wisconsin farm journal. Many of his verses were used to fill empty corners of the journal. He also wrote many books on gardening. Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisc.), Litt.D. Twenty-five years, organist at First Congregational Church, Shiocton.
See: Smith, Mary L.P. (1930). Eben E. Rexford; a biographical sketch. Menasha, Wis., George Banta Pub. Co.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives and Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company.
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Rexford, Eben Eugene , an American writer, born July 16, 1848, is the author of Nos. 199, 246, 263, 353, in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos), 1878, No. 5, and 456 in the Methodist Sunday School Hymnbook, 1879.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Rexford, E. E. , p. 1587, ii. Additional hymns by this author in common use include:—
1. He saw the wheat fields waiting. Harvest of the World.
2. O where are the reapers. Missions.
3. Rouse up to work that waits for us. Duty.
4. We are sailing o'er an ocean. Life's Vicissitudes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Eben E. Rexford
William J. Kirkpatrick
1838 - 1921 Person Name: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Composer of "[Oh, speak kind words where'er you be]" in Junior Songs William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia.
Bert Polman
William J. Kirkpatrick
