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While the days be going, for the Lord be sowing]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thos. S. Cobb Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 54565 13232 15656 Used With Text: Sowing, Ever Sowing

Author: Jennie Wilson Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: While the days be going, for the Lord be sowing Refrain First Line: Sowing, ever sowing, while the days are going Lyrics: 1 While the days be going, for the Lord be sowing, Tho' the seed may often seem to fall in vain; After toil and weeping comes the joy of reaping, By and by we’ll gather sheaves of golden grain. Refrain: Sowing, ever sowing, while the days are going; Tho' the seed may often seem to fall in vain; Sowing, ever sowing, while the days are going, By and by we'll gather sheaves of golden grain. 2 Hearts that sin has broken, yearn for mercy’s token, Bear the balm of healing o’er the world-wide field; Morning, noon and even, sow to reap for heaven, Soon will come the harvest with its priceless yield. [Refrain] 3 Go with comfort holy to the poor and lowly, Help the heavy-laden, weary, and oppressed; Christlike kindness showing seed divine be sowing, It will surely ripen for the garners blest. [Refrain] 4 Sow as Christ commanded, go not empty handed, Or before the Master lay but worthless leaves; Pass thro’ death’s dim portal to the life immortal, From the earthly harvest bearing golden sheaves. [Refrain] Scripture: Galatians 6:8 Used With Tune: While the days be going, for the Lord be sowing]

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Sowing, Ever Sowing

Author: Jennie Wilson Hymnal: The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship #200 (1938) First Line: While the days be going, for the Lord be sowing Refrain First Line: Sowing, ever sowing, while the days are going Lyrics: 1 While the days be going, for the Lord be sowing, Tho' the seed may often seem to fall in vain; After toil and weeping comes the joy of reaping, By and by we’ll gather sheaves of golden grain. Refrain: Sowing, ever sowing, while the days are going; Tho' the seed may often seem to fall in vain; Sowing, ever sowing, while the days are going, By and by we'll gather sheaves of golden grain. 2 Hearts that sin has broken, yearn for mercy’s token, Bear the balm of healing o’er the world-wide field; Morning, noon and even, sow to reap for heaven, Soon will come the harvest with its priceless yield. [Refrain] 3 Go with comfort holy to the poor and lowly, Help the heavy-laden, weary, and oppressed; Christlike kindness showing seed divine be sowing, It will surely ripen for the garners blest. [Refrain] 4 Sow as Christ commanded, go not empty handed, Or before the Master lay but worthless leaves; Pass thro’ death’s dim portal to the life immortal, From the earthly harvest bearing golden sheaves. [Refrain] Scripture: Galatians 6:8 Languages: English Tune Title: While the days be going, for the Lord be sowing]

Precious Golden Grain

Author: Jennie Wilson Hymnal: From the Cross to the Crown #64 (1921) First Line: While the days are going for the Lord be sowing Refrain First Line: Sowing, ever sowing Languages: English Tune Title: [While the days are going for the Lord be sowing]

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Jennie Wilson

1857 - 1913 Author of "Sowing, Ever Sowing" in The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship Wilson, Jennie Bain. (d. 3 September 1913). Obituaries available in the DNAH Archives. =============================== Jennie Bain Wilson, 1857-1913 Born: 1857, on a Farm Near South Whitley, Indiana. Died: Circa 1913. Afflicted with a spinal condition at age four, Wilson spent her life in a wheel chair. She never attended school, but was educated at home. She is said to have written over 2,200 texts. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Thomas S. Cobb

1876 - 1942 Person Name: Thos. S. Cobb Composer of "While the days be going, for the Lord be sowing]" in The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship Thomas S. Cobb (1876-1942), a native Texan, was educated in much the same circles as [Austin] Taylor, and received his music diploma from the Western Normal and College of Music in Dallas. He taught singing schools across Texas and the bordering states, and was particularly noted for the "Cobb Quartet" made up of his four daughters. He was recruited to Firm Foundation by Showalter in 1935.(Finley, 122ff.) Cobb edited only four hymnals for Firm Foundation before his death in 1942, but among these was the significant New Wonderful Songs (1933); at 296 hymns it was part of the trend toward more substantial publications. Prior to his work with Firm Foundation, Cobb edited hymnals for the Quartet Music Company of Fort Worth, Texas. A search of WorldCat.org shows that he was involved with at least 7 books for this publisher, going back as far as the 1890s when it was called the "Quartette Company." One of these earlier works From the Cross to the Crown (1921?) was subtitled, "Scriptural Songs," and was co-edited with Elder T. B. Clark and T. B. Mosley, one of the most well-known singing school teachers among the Churches of Christ in the southeastern U.S. Mosley was also known as a staunch doctrinal conservative. This gives some idea of the bona fides Cobb brought with him during the era of the "hymnal controversy" surrounding E. L. Jorgenson's Great Songs of the Church. Jorgenson was firmly in the premillennial camp, and was an editor of Word and Work, the primary voice of this viewpoint within the Churches of Christ. Opponents of premillennialism objected to several hymns in Great Songs that supported this doctrine, or were at least questionable. (Most of these were removed or altered in the better-known "No. 2" edition). Thomas S. Cobb passed from this life in 1942, shortly after the last of the pre-war Firm Foundation hymnals appeared. --drhamrick.blogspot.com/2012/01/hymnals-published-by-firm-foundation.html