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Author: Rev. M. S. Brown Appears in 6 hymnals Hymnal Title: The New Praiseworthy First Line: Ev'ry sky that glistens with the golden day Refrain First Line: Are you cloud or sunshine in the world today? Lyrics: 1 Ev'ry sky that glistens with the golden day, Has its cloud of sorrow drifting o'er the way; If we are the sunshine, clouds will quickly flee, And the souls that meet us will be light and free. Chorus: Are you cloud or sunshine in the world today? Are you spreading darkness, or a golden ray? Has some heart been darkened by hour cloud of sin? Have you been the sunshine, helping others win? 2 Sunshine would be brighter for us day by day, If the clouds of darkness all were swept away; Why not be the sunlight, filling hearts with cheer, Driving far away the sorrow met with here. [Chorus] 3 There are souls in darkness, longing for the light; We who are God's children should be shining bright; There are hearts all shadowed o'er by sin and shame, Waiting for a sunbeam given in His name. [Chorus] 4 Let us then look upward for a golden gleam Out of Heaven's sunlight till our faces beam; Then with hearts of kindness let us make, while here, Lives of others brighter with our sunshine cheer. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [Ev'ry sky that glistens with the golden day]

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[Ev'ry sky that glistens with the golden day]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Hymnal Title: The New Praiseworthy Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 33213 31561 13221 Used With Text: Cloud or Sunshine

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Cloud or Sunshine

Author: M. S. Brown Hymnal: Hymni Ecclesiae #570 (1911) Hymnal Title: Hymni Ecclesiae First Line: Ev'ry sky that glistens with the golden day Refrain First Line: Are you cloud or sunshine in the world today? Languages: English Tune Title: [Ev'ry sky that glistens with the golden day]

Cloud or Sunshine

Author: Rev. M. S. Brown Hymnal: Inspiring Hymns #118 (1914) Hymnal Title: Inspiring Hymns First Line: Ev'ry sky that glistens with the golden day Refrain First Line: Are you cloud or sunshine in the world today Languages: English Tune Title: [Ev'ry sky that glistens with the golden day]

Cloud or sunshine

Author: Mary A. Brown Hymnal: Ministry in Song #d29 (1909) Hymnal Title: Ministry in Song First Line: Every sky that glistens Refrain First Line: Are you cloud or sunshine in the world today Languages: English

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Mary Brown

1856 - 1918 Person Name: Mary A. Brown Hymnal Title: Ministry in Song Author of "Cloud or sunshine" in Ministry in Song From the Norwich Bulletin, Norwich, Connecticut, January 23, 1918: The death of Miss Mary M. Brown at Backus Hospital Tuesday morning saddened a host of friends and the different pupils who have had the benefit of her instruction for so many years. Miss Brown was born in Natick, R. I., May 19, 1856. She was the daughter of Lydia A. Higgins and Joseph R. C. Brown. Her common and high school education was received in Rockport, Mass. At the time there was a normal school in Norwich over twenty years ago, she took the course there and was graduated, after which she taught in the Model School in Norwich. Miss Brown has taught in the Jewett City schools for twenty years. A teacher more faithful to the interests of the scholars and school cannot be found. Her interest in the welfare of her pupils did not cease after they went out from under her care. Her everready pen in poetical compositions for occasions of various kinds was in great demand and the verses were always of a beautiful sentiment, expressed in the best of language. The words for the Christian Endeavor Consecration hymn, "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go" known and sung wherever sacred music is used, where written by Miss Brown. Her artistic ability was developed in many lines. She was a woman unusually gifted with literary talent. Miss Brown was a member of the Baptist Church. She was one of the original ten members forming Whatsoever Circle of The King's Daughters and has served as its leader. She was a member of the Ladies' Aid Society and Mission Circle, and had been a teacher in the Sunday school. A woman faithful in many things has gone to her reward. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Nettie Johnson of Jewett City, a brother, E. Frank Brown of Woonsocket, R. I., and niece, Miss Marion H. Johnson of Willimantic. --Submitted to Leonard Ellinwood by Lillian Cathcart, local historian of Norwich, Connecticut. DNAH Archives Excerpt from letter from Julia Bair to Leonard Ellinwood, 22 August 1977: I just talked with Mrs. Samuel Cathcart, our local historian, about Mary Brown. She did live in Jewett City in the late 1800's and wrote that hymn around 1890 as you indicated. However, someone changed one word in her original poem and had it copyrighted. She was never known as Charles Gabriel. She was a teacher here in Jewett City and I talked yesterday with one of her pupils! The music of this hymn (Mary Brown's original) was written by an officer in the Jewett City Savings Bank at that time. --DNAH Archives

M. S. Brown

Person Name: Rev. M. S. Brown Hymnal Title: The New Praiseworthy Author of "Cloud or Sunshine" in The New Praiseworthy

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Hymnal Title: The New Praiseworthy Composer of "[Ev'ry sky that glistens with the golden day] " in The New Praiseworthy 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