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[The sheep were sleeping within the fold]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Gilmour Incipit: 53333 33211 22216 Used With Text: He Left the Ninety and Nine

He Left the Ninety and Nine

Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: The sheep were sleeping within the fold Used With Tune: [The sheep were sleeping within the fold]

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Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman Hymnal: Songs of Love and Praise No. 3 #99 (1896) First Line: The sheep were sleeping within the fold Languages: English Tune Title: [The sheep were sleeping within the fold]

He Left the Ninety and Nine

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Songs of Love and Praise No. 2 #99 (1895) First Line: The sheep were sleeping within the fold Languages: English Tune Title: [The sheep were sleeping within the fold]

He Left the Ninety and Nine

Author: Johnson Oatman Hymnal: Celestial Songs #390 (1921) First Line: The sheep were sleeping within the fold Languages: English Tune Title: [The sheep were sleeping within the fold]

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H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Composer of "[The sheep were sleeping within the fold]" in Songs of Love and Praise No. 3 Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry

Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Person Name: Rev. Johnson Oatman Author of "He Left the Ninety and Nine" in Songs of Love and Praise No. 3 Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914