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Father, Thy Way Was Right

Author: Rev. T. O. Chisholm Appears in 3 hymnals Used With Tune: [Father, Thy way was right]

[Father, Thy way was right]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 32312 71234 54335 Used With Text: Father, Thy Way Was Right

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Father, Thy Way Was Right

Author: Rev. T. O. Chisholm Hymnal: Songs of Hope #78 (1919) Languages: English Tune Title: [Father, Thy way was right]

Father, thy way was right

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm Hymnal: Living Praise No. 2 #d37 (1906) Languages: English

Father, thy way was right

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm Hymnal: Praise and Service #d37 (1907)

1866 - 1960 Person Name: Rev. T. O. Chisholm Author of "Father, Thy Way Was Right" in Songs of Hope Thomas O. Chisholm was born in Franklin, Kentucky in 1866. His boyhood was spent on a farm and in teaching district schools. He spent five years as editor of the local paper at Franklin. He was converted to Christianity at the age of 26 and soon after was business manager and office editor of the "Pentecostal Herald" of Louisville, Ky. In 1903 he entered the ministry of the M. E. Church South. His aim in writing was to incorporate as much as Scripture as possible and to avoid flippant or sentimental themes. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) ============================== Signed letter from Chisholm dated 9 August 1953 located in the DNAH Archives.

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Father, Thy way was right]" in Songs of Hope 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