Love and help each other

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We should love and help each other

Author: Palmer Hartsough
Tune: [We should love and help each other]
Published in 12 hymnals

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1 We should love and help each other,
Day by day, day by day,
We should raise the fallen brother
On the way, on the way,
For the road is rough at best,
As we count each weary mile,
Let us cheer the fainting breast
With a tender word and smile.

Refrain:
We should love and help each other,
Day by day, day by day.
We should raise the fallen brother,
On the way, on the way.

2 Let us go in scenes of sorrow,
Undismayed, undismayed,
Trouble's hand on us tomorrow
May be laid, may be laid,
Let us help while now we can,
Ev'ry burden to relieve;
As we bless our fellow man
So a blessing we'll receive. [Refrain]

3 How the hand of love can lighten
All our woe, all our woe,
How the gleam of hope can brighten
All below, all below,
Let us do the kindly deed,
Let us speak the loving word;
They will spring the precious seed
In the garden of the Lord. [Refrain]

Source: The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship #54

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Author: Palmer Hartsough

Rv Palmer Hartsough USA 1844-1932. Born in Redford, MI, he attended Kalamazoo College and Michigan State Normal school (later MSU). He became an author, editor, lyricist, and librettist. After working as a traveling singing teacher in MI, IL, IA, OH, KY and TN, he opened a music studio in Rock Island, IL, around 1877, also directing music at a Baptist church there. In 1893, due to his poetic abilities, he moved to Cincinnati, OH, and joined the Fillmore Music Company, providing texts (over 1000) for their music. He also served as music director at the Bethel Mission and the 9th Street Baptist Church. He became a traveling song evangelist in 1903, and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1906, serving in Ontario, Canada, and MI from 191… Go to person page >

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