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Seeking a Mansion

Through troubles and trials and ills that befall

Author: S. J. Oslin
Tune: [Through troubles and trials and ills that befall]
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: S. J. Oslin

Stephen Jesse Oslin (1858-1928) was "a teacher, preacher, poet, musician, composer, author and publisher" from Walker County, Alabama. Beginning his teaching career in Arkansas, he studied with W. D. C. Botefuhr in Fort Smith during the 1880s and briefly published a music journal, The Tempo, from that city. Most of his early career, however, was spent in the Indian Territory (today eastern Oklahoma), where he served as the western correspondent for the Ruebush-Kieffer Musical Million. In 1905 Oslin incorporated the Eureka Publishing Company, in Stigler, I.T., where he published songbooks, a paper called The Eureka Messenger, music theory texts, and held sessions of the Eureka Music Normal. His singing classes and music normals were taugh… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Through troubles and trials and ills that befall
Title: Seeking a Mansion
Author: S. J. Oslin
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I'm seeking a mansion above
Publication Date: 1908
Copyright: Public Domain

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Gospel Songs and Hymns #107

The Eureka Sacred Carols #d120

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Voices for Jesus #14

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