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Sweet Harmonies
Publication Date: 1896 Publisher: C. M. Barnes Publication Place: Eureka Springs, Ark. Editors: C. M. Barnes; C. M. Barnes
Sweet Harmonies
How Firm a Foundation
Appears in 2,127 hymnals First Line: How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord Used With Tune: [How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord]
How Firm a Foundation
I Must Tell Jesus
Author: E. A. H. Appears in 349 hymnals First Line: I must tell Jesus all of my trials Used With Tune: [I must tell Jesus all of my trials]
I Must Tell Jesus
Almost Persuaded
Author: Clio Harper Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Almost hast Thou persuaded me Refrain First Line: Almost persuaded, list ye the cry Used With Tune: [Almost hast Thou persuaded me]
Almost Persuaded
[How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord]
Appears in 413 hymnals Incipit: 56161 51131 35561 Used With Text: How Firm a Foundation
[How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord]
Not Far From Heaven's Gate
Author: Rev. J. H. Luther Hymnal: SH1896 #1 (1896) First Line: Waiting, while I travel onward Languages: English Tune Title: [Waiting, while I travel onward]
Not Far From Heaven's Gate
Sweeping Thourth the Gates
Hymnal: SH1896 #2 (1896) First Line: [Sweeping Thourth the Gates] Languages: English
Sweeping Thourth the Gates
All, All is Free
Hymnal: SH1896 #3 (1896) First Line: [All, All is Free] Languages: English
All, All is Free
Will L. Thompson
1847 - 1909 Person Name: W. L. Thompson Hymnal Number: 23 Author of "There's a Great Day Coming" in Sweet Harmonies Will Lamartine Thompson (1847-1909)
Born: November 7, 1847, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Died: September 20, 1909, New York, New York.
Buried: Riverview Cemetery, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Rebuffed in an early attempt to sell his songs to a commercial publisher, Thompson started his own publishing company. He later expanded, opening a store to sell pianos, organs and sheet music. Both a lyricist and composer, he ensured he would always remember words or melodies that came to him at odd times:
"No matter where I am, at home or hotel, at the store or traveling, if an idea or theme comes to me that I deem worthy of a song, I jot it down in verse. In this way I never lose it."
Thompson took ill during a tour of Europe, and his family cut short their travels to return home. He died a few weeks later.
Music--
1.Jesus Is All the World to Me
2.Lead Me Gently Home, Father
3.Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
4.There’s a Great Day Coming
--hymntime.com/tch
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Various biographical sketches and newspaper articles about Thompson are available in the DNAH Archives.
Will L. Thompson
E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Hymnal Number: 25 Author of "I Must Tell Jesus" in Sweet Harmonies Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873.
Mary Louise VanDyke
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Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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E. A. Hoffman
Joseph Medlicott Scriven
1819 - 1886 Person Name: Joseph Scriven Hymnal Number: 29 Author of "What a Friend" in Sweet Harmonies Joseph M. Scriven (b. Seapatrick, County Down, Ireland, 1819; d. Bewdley, Rice Lake, ON, Canada, 1886), an Irish immigrant to Canada, wrote this text near Port Hope, Ontario, in 1855. Because his life was filled with grief and trials, Scriven often needed the solace of the Lord as described in his famous hymn.
Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, he enrolled in a military college to prepare for an army career. However, poor health forced him to give up that ambition. Soon after came a second blow—his fiancée died in a drowning accident on the eve of their wedding in 1844. Later that year he moved to Ontario, where he taught school in Woodstock and Brantford. His plans for marriage were dashed again when his new bride-to-be died after a short illness in 1855. Following this calamity Scriven seldom had a regular income, and he was forced to live in the homes of others. He also experienced mistrust from neighbors who did not appreciate his eccentricities or his work with the underprivileged. A member of the Plymouth Brethren, he tried to live according to the Sermon on the Mount as literally as possible, giving and sharing all he had and often doing menial tasks for the poor and physically disabled. Because Scriven suffered from depression, no one knew if his death by drowning in Rice Lake was suicide or an accident.
Bert Polman
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Scriven, Joseph. Mr. Sankey, in his My Life and Sacred Songs, 1906, p. 279, says that Scriven was b. in Dublin in 1820, was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and went to Canada when he was 25, and died there at Port Hope, on Lake Ontario, in 1886. His hymn:—
What a Friend we have in Jesus. [Jesus our Friend] was, according to Mr. Sankey, discovered to be his in the following manner: "A neighbour, sitting up with him in his illness, happened upon a manuscript of 'What a Friend we have in Jesus.' Reading it with great delight, and questioning Mr. Scriven about it, he said he had composed it for his mother, to comfort her in a time of special sorrow, not intending any one else should see it." We find the hymn in H. 1... Hastings's Social Hymns, Original and Selected, 1865, No. 242; and his Song of Pilgrimage, 1886, No. 1291, where it is attributed to "Joseph Scriven, cir. 1855." It is found in many modern collections.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Joseph Medlicott Scriven
