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[Though of sinners I'm the chief]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 55111 23321 66176 Used With Text: Jesus Is My Friend

Author: J. C. Grimmell Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Find ich gleich in mir nur Schuld Refrain First Line: Jesus ist mein Freund und Heiland Used With Tune: [Find ich gleich in mir nur Schuld]

Jesus Is My Friend

Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Though of sinners I'm the chief Refrain First Line: Jesus is my friend and Saviour! Used With Tune: [Though of sinners I'm the chief]

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Jesus Is My Friend

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Spirit and Life No. 2 #24 (1895) First Line: Though of sinners I'm the chief Refrain First Line: Jesus is my friend and Saviour! Languages: English Tune Title: [Though of sinners I'm the chief]

Jesus Is My Friend

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: The Soul Winner #24 (1896) First Line: Though of sinners I'm the chief Refrain First Line: Jesus is my friend and Saviour! Languages: English Tune Title: [Though of sinners I'm the chief]

Jesus ist mein Freund

Author: J. C. Grimmell Hymnal: Jubel-Klänge #13 (1899) First Line: Find ich gleich in mir nur Schuld Refrain First Line: Jesus ist mein Freund und Heiland Languages: German Tune Title: [Find ich gleich in mir nur Schuld]

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Author of "Jesus Is My Friend" in Spirit and Life No. 2 Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Though of sinners I'm the chief]" in Spirit and Life No. 2 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

Julius Charles Grimmell

1847 - 1921 Person Name: J. C. Grimmell Author of "Jesus ist mein Freund" in Jubel-Klänge Grimmel, Julius Charles. (Marburg, Germany, May 30, 1847--September 1, 1921, Brightwater, New York). Baptist. Attended Rochester Theological Seminary, 1863-1866, 1867, 1868; University of Lewisburgh (Pennsylvania), 1866-1867. Pastorates at Buffalo, N.Y., 1867-1873; First German Baptist Church, 1873-1893, and 1904-1919, Brooklyn, N.Y. General secretary for German Baptist Home Mission work and editor of the German Baptist publications in Cleveland, 1894-1904. Published a collection of hymns for prayer meetings entitled Die Weckstimme (Brooklyn, 1875). Three hymns translated from English to German appeared in Die Glaubensharfe, (Cleveland, Ohio, 1885). --Paul Hammond, DNAH Archives