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I Have Answered the Call, Will You?

Author: William C. Poole Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: There is need today for hearts that are brave Refrain First Line: Hear the call for workers brave and true

[There is need today for hearts that are brave]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 34555 63333 56715 Used With Text: I Have Answered the Call, Will You?

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I Have Answered the Call, Will You?

Author: W. C. Poole Hymnal: Sunday School Voices, No.2 #116 (1913) First Line: There is need today for hearts that are brave Refrain First Line: Hear the call for workers brave and true Lyrics: 1 There is need today for hearts that are brave To go to the front, precious souls to save, For whom on the cross Jesus’ life he gave,— I have answered the call, will you? Chorus: Hear the call for workers brave and true! Hear the call to service, the Lord needs you! His grace is sufficient to carry you thro’,— I have answered the call, will you? 2 There is need today for hearts that are strong, To mingle in love with the rushing throng In search of the lost who are swept along,— I have answered the call, will you? [Chorus] 3 There is need today for hearts that will dare To follow the cross, and the labor share With others who bravely the burden bear,— I have answered the call, will you? [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [There is need today for hearts that are brave]

I Have Answered the Call, Will You

Author: W. C. Poole Hymnal: Songs of Conquest #143 (1923) First Line: There is need today for hearts that are brave Refrain First Line: Hear the call for workers brave and true! Languages: English Tune Title: [There is need today for hearts that are brave]

I have answered the call

Author: William C. Poole Hymnal: Nineteen Sunday School Songs #d15 (1913) First Line: There is need today for hearts that are brave Refrain First Line: Hear the call for workers brave and true

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[There is need today for hearts that are brave]" in Sunday School Voices, No.2 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

William C. Poole

1875 - 1949 Author of "I Have Answered the Call, Will You?" William C. Poole was born and raised on a farm in Maryland. His parents belonged to the Methodist church. He graduated from Washington College and became a Methodist minister in Wilmington, Delaware area. He was pastor of McCabe Memorial, Richardson Park and other churches. In 1913 he was superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Delaware. He wrote about five hundred hymns. The writing was done as recreation and a diversion from his pastoral work. His goal in writing as well as in being a minister was to help people. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)