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[Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 54565 45121 66717

Pray for help, Christian, pray, pray, pray

Author: Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand Lyrics: 1 Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand, Fields for our labor invitingly stand; Mark ye the signals, they widely diffuse Tokens of the coming harvest, joyful the news. Chorus: Pray for help, Christian, pray, pray, pray, Yes, pray for help in the fields white today; Gather the sheaves, bring the world's harvest home, Glorious and blessed harvest, come, Saviour, come. 2 Work is abundant, the promise is great, Few are the reapers, in sadness they wait; Patiently toiling, yet daily they cry, Pray ye that our Lord and Master, reapers supply. [Chorus] 3 Men who are faithful are fainting today, Worn with their labors, they fall by the way; Fill ye the ranks, and with heart and with hand Gather in the blessed harvest, Christ gives command. [Chorus] 4 Hasten the time when the reapers shall sing, And with rejoicing, their sheaves homeward bring; Saints with the angels together shall meet: Glorious and blessed meeting round Jesus' feet. [Chorus] Topics: Bible Songs Missionary Songs Scripture: John 4:35 Used With Tune: THE WORLD'S HARVEST

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The World's Harvest

Author: Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth Hymnal: Song Anchor #54 (1878) First Line: Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand Refrain First Line: Pray for help, Christian, pray, pray, pray Languages: English Tune Title: [Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand]

The World's Harvest

Author: Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth Hymnal: Songs of Gratitude #104 (1877) First Line: Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand Refrain First Line: Pray for help, Christian, pray, pray, pray Languages: English Tune Title: [Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand]

The World's Harvest

Author: Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth Hymnal: Songs of Gratitude #104 (1880) First Line: Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand Refrain First Line: Pray for help, Christian, pray, pray, pray Languages: English Tune Title: [Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand]" in Song Anchor 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