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Author: Ada Blenkhorn Meter: 11.11.11.7.7.7.11.7 Appears in 75 hymnals Hymnal Title: Timeless Truths First Line: Do you fear the foe will in the conflict win? Refrain First Line: Let a little sunshine in Lyrics: 1 Do you fear the foe will in the conflict win? Is it dark without you—darker still within? Clear the darkened windows, open wide the door, Let a little sunshine in. Refrain: Let a little sunshine in, Let a little sunshine in; Clear the darkened windows, open wide the door, Let a little sunshine in. 2 Does your faith grow fainter in the cause you love? Are your prayers unanswered by your God above? Clear the darkened windows, open wide the door, Let a little sunshine in. [Refrain] 3 Would you go rejoicing in the upward way, Knowing naught of darkness, dwelling in the day? Clear the darkened windows, open wide the door, Let a little sunshine in. [Refrain] Topics: Warfare Scripture: Deuteronomy 31:8 Used With Tune: [Do you fear the foe will in the conflict win?] Text Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Let_the_Sunshine_In); The Standard Publishing Company, Jewels for Juniors, circa 1911 (90); Timeless Truths Publications, Sing unto the Lord (9)

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[Do you fear the foe will in the conflict win?]

Meter: 11.11.11.7.7.7.11.7 Appears in 89 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles H. Gabriel Hymnal Title: Timeless Truths Tune Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Let_the_Sunshine_In); The Standard Publishing Company, Jewels for Juniors, circa 1911 (90); Timeless Truths Publications, Sing unto the Lord (9) Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 53322 11677 75443 Used With Text: Let the Sunshine In

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Let the Sunshine In

Author: Ada Blenkhorn Hymnal: Assembly Songs #145 (1910) Hymnal Title: Assembly Songs First Line: Do you fear the foe will in the conflict win? Refrain First Line: Let a little sunshine in Languages: English Tune Title: [Do you fear the foe will in the conflict win?]

Let the sunshine in

Author: Ada Blenkhorn Hymnal: Bethany Hymns #3 (1908) Hymnal Title: Bethany Hymns First Line: Do you fear the foe will in the conflict win Refrain First Line: Let a little sunshine in Languages: English Tune Title: [Do you fear the foe will in the conflict win]

Let the Sunshine In

Author: Ada Blenkhorn Hymnal: Choice Light and Life Songs #169 (1950) Hymnal Title: Choice Light and Life Songs First Line: Let a little sunshine in Languages: English Tune Title: [Let a little sunshine in]

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Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, Jr.

1892 - 1934 Person Name: Chas. H. Gabriel Hymnal Title: The Golden Sheaf Composer of "[Do you fear the foe will in the conflict win?]" in The Golden Sheaf Born: March 2, 1892, San Francisco, California. Pseudonym: Jean Howard. Gabriel was living with his parents in Cook County, Illinois, in 1910. He was still there in 1920 with his wife Ethel. In 1926, he was musical director and announcer for radio station KLX in Oakland, California. By 1930, he and his wife were in Los Angeles County, California. The January 30, 1926 issue of Colliers magazine said of him: "Gabe" has experienced all those changes which the Fates deem necessary to broaden one’s views. He has taught music in the Indianapolis [Indiana] and Northwestern Conservatories; edited mechanical and automobile magazines; traveled with Billy Sunday; been a newspaper reporter; rewrite man; music editor and book reviewer. In his spare time he has managed to produce eight hundred compositions which have been printed. He first became interested in radio when he was appointed director of WGN in Chicago [Illinois]. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Ada Blenkhorn

1858 - 1927 Hymnal Title: Timeless Truths Author of "Let the Sunshine In" in Timeless Truths Ada Jane Blenkhorn Canada 1858-1927 Born in Cobourg, Ontario, the 10th of 11 children, she emigrated with her family to the U.S. In 1884 and settled in Cleveland, OH.. She was raised a Methodist, and began writing hymn lyrics at age 34. A prolific writer of hymn lyrics, she was about to give it up when a friend encouraged her to continue, telling her some soul might be saved by a hymn she would write. She worked for many years as secretary to her brother, Henry's, real estate company. After his death in 1923, she became president of the company. She never married. John Perry

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: Charles H. Gabriel Hymnal Title: Timeless Truths Composer of "[Do you fear the foe will in the conflict win?]" in Timeless Truths 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