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Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services

Publication Date: 1917 Publisher: Rodeheaver Co. Publication Place: Chicago Editors: Homer A. Rodeheaver; Rodeheaver Co.; Chas. H. Gabriel

Author: Rev. A. H. Ackley Appears in 12 hymnals First Line: I shall be ready to welcome the Savior Refrain First Line: I shall be ready when Jesus comes Lyrics: 1 I shall be ready to welcome the Savior, I may behold Him descend from on High, Clothed in His garments of heavenly splendor, O what a day when the King shall draw nigh. Refrain: I shall be ready when Jesus comes, When He comes, when He comes, I shall be ready when Jesus comes, When Jesus comes back for His own. 2 I shall be ready, for Him I have trusted, Using the talents committed to me; Things I once loved, from my heart have departed, Living in Jesus my soul is made free. [Refrain] 3 Shall His returning to you mean a blessing? Or will you tremble and fall down with fear? How will He find you, denying, confessing? Seek Him, believing, while yet He is near. [Refrain] 4 Reigning with Him, He has promised to make me Heir unto God and Join-Heir with His son; All shall be well when He comes back to take me, Ruler and Lord of the world He has won. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [I shall be ready to welcome the Savior]

A Charge to Keep I Have

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 1,351 hymnals Used With Tune: [A charge to keep I have]

At the Cross

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 2,303 hymnals First Line: Alas, and did my Savior bleed? Refrain First Line: At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light Used With Tune: [Alas, and did my Savior bleed?]

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Tunes

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[Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty]

Appears in 1,041 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John B. Dykes Incipit: 11335 56666 53555 Used With Text: Holy, Holy, Holy!

[I come to the garden alone]

Appears in 187 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: C. Austin Miles Incipit: 55345 12321 11216 Used With Text: In the Garden

[Would you be free from your burden of sin]

Appears in 259 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: L. E. Jones Incipit: 55555 56665 17222 Used With Text: There is Power in the Blood

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Instances

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Just Outside the Door

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: ASCS1917 #1 (1917) First Line: O weary soul, the gate is near Languages: English Tune Title: [O weary soul, the gate is near]

Hidden Clouds

Author: E. E. Rexford Hymnal: ASCS1917 #2 (1917) First Line: If we knew about the trials Refrain First Line: O thank God the clouds are hidden Lyrics: 1 If we knew about the trials That a day to come may bring, We could often lose our courage, And not have the heart to sing; But God hides the future from us, So put worries all away, And forget about tomorrow In the gladness of today. Refrain: O thank God the clouds are hidden, That some coming day may bring! In the sunshine of the present, Let us journey on and sing. 2 Let us pluck the flowers growing All about the way we tread, Thinking not about the briars That await us on ahead. Squander not the golden present Worrying over what may be; Make the most of sunny weather, And be glad, be glad with me. [Refrain] 3 Let us bridge each snare and pitfall With a faith that’s brave and strong, And go journeying on tow’rd heaven, With a helpful, hopeful song; If a voice shall lose its gladness In the minor notes of pain, O remember, after shadows Will the sun shine out again! [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [If we knew about the trials]

Only a Sinner

Author: James M. Gray Hymnal: ASCS1917 #3 (1917) First Line: Naught have I gotten but what I received Refrain First Line: Only a sinner saved by grace Languages: English Tune Title: [Naught have I gotten but what I received]

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People

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Julia Ward Howe

1819 - 1910 Hymnal Number: 152 Author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Born: May 27, 1819, New York City. Died: October 17, 1910, Middletown, Rhode Island. Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Howe, Julia, née Ward, born in New York City in 1819, and married in 1843 the American philanthropist S. G. Howe. She has taken great interest in political matters, and is well known through her prose and poetical works. Of the latter there are Passion Flower, 1854; Words of the Hour, 1856; Later Lyrics, 1866; and From Sunset Ridge, 1896. Her Battle Hymn of the Republic, "eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," was written in 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War, and was called forth by the sight of troops for the seat of war, and published in her Later Lyrics, 1806, p. 41. It is found in several American collections, including The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, and others. [M. C. Hazard, Ph.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ============================ Howe, Julia Ward. (New York, New York, May 27, 1819--October 17, 1910). Married Samuel Gridley Howe on April 26, 1843. She was a woman with a distinguished personality and intellect; an abolitionist and active in social reforms; author of several book in prose and verse. The latter include Passion Flower, 1854; Words of the Hours, 1856; Later Lyrics, 1866; and From a Sunset Ridge, 1896. She became famous as the author of the poem entitled "Battle Hymn of the Republic," which, in spite of its title, was written as a patriotic song and not as a hymn for use in public worship, but which has been included in many American hymn books. It was written on November 19, 1861, while she and her husband, accompanied by their pastor, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, minister of the (Unitarian) Church of the Disciples, Boston, were visiting Washington soon after the outbreak of the Civil War. She had seen the troops gathered there and had heard them singing "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave" to a popular tune called "Glory, Hallelujah" composed a few years earlier by William Steffe of Charleston, South Carolina, for Sunday School use. Dr. Clarke asked Julie Howe if she could not write more uplifting words for the tune and as she woke early the next morning she found the verses forming in her mind as fast as she could write them down, so completely that later she re-wrote only a line or two in the last stanza and changed only four words in other stanzas. She sent the poem to The Atlantic Monthly, which paid her $4 and published it in its issue for February, 1862. It attracted little attention until it caught the eye of Chaplain C. C. McCable (later a Methodist bishop) who had a fine singing voice and who taught it first to the 122nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry regiment to which he was attached, then to other troops, and to prisoners in Libby Prison after he was made a prisoner of war. Thereafter it quickly came into use throughout the North as an expression of the patriotic emotion of the period. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Hymnal Number: 40 Composer of "[What a wonderful change in my life has been]" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services 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

A. H. Ackley

1887 - 1960 Hymnal Number: 184 Author of "I Am Coming Home" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)

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