Be Thou Exalted
Words: Frances Jane (“Fanny”) Crosby (b. Mar. 24, 1820; d. Feb. 12, 1915) Music: John Sylvester Fearis (b. Feb. 5, 1867; d. Sept. 2, 1932) Links: Wordwise Hymns (John Fearis) The Cyber Hymnal Note:...
View ArticleTill the Storm Passes By
Words: Thomas Mosie Lister (b. Sept. 8, 1921) Music: Thomas Mosie Lister Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal (Mosie Lister) Note: The Wordwise Hymns will give you a bit of background on this highly...
View ArticleHe Is Able to Deliver Thee
Words: William Augustine Ogden (b. Oct. 10, 1841; d. Oct. 14, 1897) Music: William Augustine Ogden Links: Wordwise Hymns (none) The Cyber Hymnal Note: William Ogden was a productive gospel song writer...
View ArticleJesus Is Coming Again (Peterson)
Words: John Willard Peterson (b. Nov. 1, 1921; d. Sept. 20, 2006) Music: John Willard Peterson Links: Wordwise Hymns (John Peterson) The Cyber Hymnal (John Peterson) Note: The Cyber Hymnal does not...
View ArticleBeautiful Isle of Somewhere
Words: Jessie H. Brown Pounds (b. Aug. 31, 1861; d. Mar. 3, 1921) Music: John Sylvester Fearis (b. Feb. 5, 1867; d. Sept. 2, 1932) Links: Wordwise Hymns (Jessie Pounds and John Fearis) The Cyber Hymnal...
View ArticleThe New Song
Words: Arthur Tappan Pierson (b. Mar. 6, 1837; d. June 3, 1911) Music: Philip Paul Bliss (b. June 9, 1838; d. Dec. 29, 1876) Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal Note: The alternate title of this...
View ArticleFor the Beauty of the Earth
Words: Folliot Sandford Pierpoint (b. Oct. 7, 1835; d. Mar. 10, 1917) Music: Dix, by Conrad Kocher (b. Dec. 16, 1786; d. Mar. 12:1872) Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal Note: The tune Dix is also...
View ArticleHeavenly Sunlight
Words: Henry Jeffreys Zelley (b. Mar. 15, 1859; d. Mar. 16, 1942) Music: Grenada, by George Harrison Cook (b. _____; d. _____ 1948) Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal Note: Mr. Zelley was a...
View ArticleFor All the Saints
Words: William Walsham How (b. Dec. 13, 1823; d. Aug. 10, 1897) Music: Sine Nomine, by Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Oct. 12, 1872; d. Aug. 26, 1958) Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal Note: Called...
View ArticleJesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me
Words: Paul Gerhardt (b. Mar. 12, 1607; d. May 27, 1676) Music: St. Catherine, by Henri Frederick Hemy (b. Nov. 12, 1818; d. June 10, 1888) Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal Note: This wonderful...
View ArticleThe King of Love My Shepherd Is
Words: Henry Williams Baker (b. May 27, 1821; d. Feb. 12, 1877) Music: Dominus Regit Me, by John Bacchus Dykes (b. Mar. 10, 1823; d. Jan. 22, 1876) Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal Note: This is...
View ArticleFor God So Loved the World (Smith)
Words: Alfred Barnerd Smith (b. Nov. 8, 1916; d. Aug. 9, 2001) Music: Alfred Barnerd Smith Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal (none) Note: This chorus is a departure for the blog, which deals...
View ArticleRoom at the Cross for You
Words: Ira Forest Stanphill (b. Feb. 14, 1914; d. Dec. 30, 1993) Music: Ira Forest Stanphill Links: Wordwise Hymns (Ira Stanphill) The Cyber Hymnal (Ira Stanphill) Ira Stanphill’s parents headed west...
View ArticleOur Great Saviour
Words: John Wilbur Chapman (b. June 17, 1859; d. Dec. 25, 1918) Music: Hyfrydol, by Rowland Huw Prichard (b. Jan. 14, 1811; d. Jan. 25, 1887) Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal Note: The Cyber...
View ArticleVerily, Verily
Words: James McGranahan (b. July 4, 1840; d. July 9, 1907) Music: James McGranahan Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal Note: This lively and meaningful gospel song was first published in 1878....
View ArticleYe Must Be Born Again
Words: William True Sleeper (b. Feb. 9, 1819; d. Sept. 24, 1904) Music: George Coles Stebbins (b. Feb. 26, 1846; d. Oct. 6, 1945) Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal Note: Pastor Sleeper was a...
View ArticleSurely Goodness and Mercy
Words: John Willard Peterson (b. Nov. 1, 1921; d. Sept. 20, 2006); and Alfred Barnerd Smith (b. Nov. 8, 1916; d. Aug. 9, 2001) Music: John Willard Peterson and Alfred Barnerd Smith Links: Wordwise...
View ArticleLead On, O King Eternal
Words: Ernest Warburton Shurtleff (b. Apr. 4, 1862; d. Aug. 24, 1917) Music: Lancashire, by Henry Thomas Smart (b. Oct. 26, 1813; d. July 6, 1879) Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal Note: The Cyber...
View ArticleMy Saviour’s Love
Words: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Aug. 18, 1856; d. Sept. 15, 1932) Music: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Links: Wordwise Hymns The Cyber Hymnal Note: For some reason, the Cyber Hymnal adds four “O’s”...
View ArticleNow I Belong to Jesus
Words: Norman John Clayton (b. Jan. 22, 1903; d. June 1, 1992) Music: Ellsworth, by Norman John Clayton Links: Wordwise Hymns (Norman Clayton) The Cyber Hymnal (Norman Clayton) Note: Mr. Clayton...
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