R. E. Hudson

Ralph Erskine Hudson, 1843-1901

Born: Ju­ly 12, 1843, Na­po­le­on, Ohio.
Died: June 14, 1901, Cleve­land, Ohio.
Buried: Al­li­ance, Ohio.

Hudson’s par­ents, Hen­ry and Sar­ah Hud­son, moved to Penn­syl­van­ia when Ralph was a boy. Soon af­ter the out­break of the Amer­i­can ci­vil war, Ralph en­list­ed in the 10th Penn­syl­van­ia Vol­un­teers, and served over three years. Af­ter dis­charge from the ar­my, he be­came a suc­cess­ful mu­sic teach­er. From 1872-4, he was Pro­fes­sor of Vo­cal Mu­sic at Mount Un­ion Coll­ege, and for the next quar­ter cen­tu­ry lived in the Mt. Un­ion-Alliance, Ohio, area. For a while, he was in a real es­tate par­tner­ship with Rev. D. D. Waugh. How­ev­er, he was best known as a hymn writ­er and mu­sic publish­er, and for evan­gel­ism and tem­per­ance work. He was a lay preach­er and mem­ber of the Mt. Un­ion Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church, and was one of the few sup­port­ers of the Sal­va­tion Ar­my when it strug­gled to gain a foot­hold in Al­li­ance in the mid-1880’s.

In 1897, Hud­son moved to Cleve­land, Ohio, where he con­tin­ued to pub­lish mu­sic, and to tra­vel as an evan­gel­ist and tem­per­ance work­er. In late May, 1901, he left Cleve­land for an ex­tens­ive trip to pro­mote his lat­est song­book. He stopped in Upland, In­di­a­na, to at­tend com­mence­ment ex­er­cis­es at Tay­lor Un­i­ver­si­ty, where he was a trust­ee. He stayed there sev­er­al days and de­li­vered a lecture. Short­ly after, he fell ill and died. At the time of his death, he was a mem­ber of the Lo­cal Preach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion, the Ep­worth Me­mor­i­al Church in Cleve­land, and the Pro­tect­ed Home Cir­cle.

Hudson’s works in­clude:
Salvation Echoes (Al­li­ance, Ohio: 1882)
Gems of Gos­pel Song for Sab­bath Schools and Gos­pel Meet­ings, 1884
Prohibition War Songs
Quartette
Songs for the Home
Songs of Peace, Love and Joy (Al­li­ance, Ohio: 1885)
The Tem­per­ance Songs­ter, 1886
Songs of the Ran­somed, 1887
Glad Tid­ings in Song, 1893

Lyrics--
All Taken Away
Behold the Bride­groom
Bi­ble, The
Blessed Je­sus
Blessed Name
Calvary
Child of the King, A
Christmas Day
Cold Wa­ter for Me
Come to the Feast
Follow Thou Me
Fountain Flow­ing
Glorious Church, A
Going Home To­night
Gospel Train
Haste Away
He Is Com­ing
He Knows
He Took Me In
His Name Is Je­sus
His Yoke Is Ea­sy
Homeward Bound
I Come Just as I Am
I Will, God Help­ing Me
I’ll Live for Him
I’m Glad I En­tered In
I’m Sa­tis­fied
Jesus Is Call­ing
Jesus Now Is Pass­ing By
Life of Trust, How Sweet
Little Talk with Je­sus, A
Look to Je­sus
Marriage Sup­per
My Dream
No One like Je­sus
Prayer for Guid­ance
Press This Bat­tle On
Prodigal Child, Come Home
Redeemed
Repentance
Rewarded
Ring, Ring the Bells
Rose of Sha­ron
Shout for Joy
Sing of My Re­deem­er
Something to Do
Tale of Woe, The
Ten Vir­gins, The
There’ll Be Joy in the Morn­ing
This Just Suits Me
We Will Have a Hap­py Time
Who’ll En­list?
Wonderful Love
Wonderful Sav­ior

Music--
Beautiful Ci­ty of Gold
Blessed Be the Name
Driven from Home
Fill Me Now
Half Has Ne­ver Been Told, The
Hidden Path
Hudson
I Will Fol­low
I’ll Be There
Jesus, Lov­er of My Soul
Lily of the Val­ley
Man of Galilee
Mar­tyr­dom
Mary Mag­da­lene
New Hid­ing Place
Safety
Same Today
Satisfied
Shadow of the Rock, The
Simply Trust­ing Ev­ery Day
We Mean This World for God
Without One Plea

--hymntime.com/tch