Haldor Lillenas

Haldor Lillenas, 1885-1959

Born: No­vem­ber 19, 1885, Stord Is­land (near Ber­gen), Nor­way.
Died: Au­gust 18, 1959, As­pen, Co­lo­ra­do.
Buried: Flor­al Hills Cem­e­te­ry, Kan­sas Ci­ty, Mis­so­uri.

Pseudonyms--
Vir­gin­ia Rose Gold­en
Laverne Gray
Richard Hainsworth
Rev. H. N. Lines
Robert Whitmore
Ferne Winters

Lillenas em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca as a child; his fam­i­ly set­tled first in South Da­ko­ta, then moved to Or­e­gon in 1889. He at­tend­ed Deets Pa­ci­fic Bi­ble Coll­ege in Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia (later re­named to Pa­sa­de­na Coll­ege); stu­died mu­sic at the Sie­gel-My­ers School of Mu­sic in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois; and re­ceived an hon­or­ary Doc­tor of Mu­sic de­gree from Ol­i­vet Na­za­rene Coll­ege. His first pas­tor­ate was in Lom­poc, Cal­i­for­nia, in 1910; he lat­er pas­tored in Redlands, Cal­i­for­nia, and In­dianapolis, In­diana. In 1924, he found­ed the Lil­le­nas Mu­sic Com­pa­ny (bought by the Na­za­rene Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny in 1930), and worked as an ed­it­or there un­til his re­tire­ment in 1950.
Haldor mar­ried Ber­tha Mae Wil­son, a song­writ­er like him­self. He and Ber­tha were el­ders in the Church of the Na­za­rene. Hal­dor tra­veled as an evan­gel­ist, then pas­tored sev­er­al church­es, 1914-1924. In his life­time, he wrote some 4,000 hymns, and sup­plied songs for ma­ny evan­gel­ists. His works in­clude:
Special Sac­red Songs, 1919
New Sac­red Songs
Strains of Love
Special Sac­red Songs No. 2

Lyrics--
And Yet There Is Room (© 1928)
Beautiful Gates of Gold, The
Bible Stands, The
Church of God, Awak­en
Climbing Up the Hills of God (© 1957)
Come Just as You Are (© 1928)
Don’t Turn Him Away (© 1925)
Dear Old Bi­ble, The
Dusky Hands
Garden of My Heart, The
Glorious Free­dom
Have You Thought? (© 1940)
He Has Called Me by My Name (© 1927)
He Is Mine (© 1929)
He Set Me Free
Higher Than the Mount­ain (© 1957)
Ho­ly Spir­it, God Most Ho­ly (© 1957)
I Have Found a Pre­cious Rest­ing Place
I Know a Name (© 1928)
I Have Set­tled the Quest­ion
I Lost the World (© 1924)
I Will Arise and Go to My Fa­ther
In the Home­land (© 1931)
Jesus Rolls the Clouds Away (© 1950)
Jesus Will Walk With Me
Leave Your Bur­den at the Place of Pray­er (© 1934)
Lord, I Am Plead­ing (© 1924)
Loy­al and True (© 1930)
More Than a Friend (© 1928)
My Bur­den Is Gone (© 1923)
My Mo­ther’s Old Bi­ble Is True (© 1929)
My Won­der­ful Lord (© 1938)
My Won­der­ful Friend
No Com­pro­mise
O Love of Cal­va­ry (© 1923)
O My Heart Sings To­day (© 1924)
Once I Was Bound by Sin’s Gall­ing Fet­ters
Peace That Je­sus Gives, The (© 1931)
One Day I Tra­veled a Toil­some Road
Pull Up Stream
Savior Have I, More Pre­cious to Me, A (© 1931)
Soldiers of Im­man­u­el (1919)
Soul That Sin­neth Shall Die, The (1914)
Standing on the Word (© 1927)
Storm the Forts of Sin (© 1923)
Surrender to Je­sus (© 1953)
Sweeping This Way
Tell the Bless­èd Sto­ry
There’s a Blessed and Tri­umph­ant Song
Under the Aton­ing Blood (© 1918)
Walking in the Beau­ti­ful Light of God (© 1925)
What Have You Writ­ten? (© 1932)
When Je­sus Whis­pers, "Peace"
When the Ho­ly Ghost Abides (© 1929)
Where They Need No Sun
Why Car­ry Your Load? (© 1931)
Wonder-Working Name, The (© 1957)
Wonderful Grace of Je­sus
Wonderful Peace
Word of God, The
Yielded to Thee (© 1925)
Your Ros­es May Have Thorns (© 1925)

Music--
Church in the Vil­lage, The
Count Me
Glory Just to Walk
I’m Abid­ing in Ca­naan Land
Jesus Has Lift­ed Me
Jesus Intercedes for Me (© 1933)
Steady, Bro­ther, Ste­ady
Years Can Not Take Him Away, The

--hymntime.com/tch