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Brighten the Corner Where You Are

Author: Ina Duley Ogdon Appears in 110 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do

[Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do]

Appears in 81 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles H. Gabriel Hymnal Title: 50 Favorites Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 34554 51153 54445 Used With Text: Brighten the Corner Where You Are

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Brighten the Corner Where You Are

Author: Ina Duley Ogdon Hymnal: 112 Familiar Hymns and Gospel Songs #24 (1945) Hymnal Title: 112 Familiar Hymns and Gospel Songs First Line: Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do Languages: English Tune Title: [Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do]

Brighten the Corner Where You Are

Author: Ina D. Ogdon Hymnal: 50 Favorites #6 (2013) Hymnal Title: 50 Favorites First Line: Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do Refrain First Line: Brighten the corner where you are! Lyrics: 1. Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do, Do not wait to shed your light afar; To the many duties ever near you now be true, Brighten the corner where you are. Refrain: Brighten the corner where you are! Brighten the corner where you are! Someone far from harbor you may guide across the bar; Brighten the corner where you are! 2. Just above are clouded skies that you may help to clear, Let not narrow self your way debar; Though into one heart alone may fall your song of cheer, Brighten the corner where you are. 3. Here for all your talent you may surely find a need, Here reflect the bright and Morning Star; Even from your humble hand the Bread of Life may feed, Brighten the corner where you are. Languages: English Tune Title: [Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do]

Brighten the corner where you are

Author: Ina Duley Ogdon Hymnal: A Child's Book of Hymns #d4 (1945) Hymnal Title: A Child's Book of Hymns First Line: Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do Refrain First Line: Brigthen the corner where you are! Languages: English

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Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, Jr.

1892 - 1934 Person Name: Charles H. Gabriel Hymnal Title: 50 Favorites Composer of "[Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do]" in 50 Favorites Born: March 2, 1892, San Francisco, California. Pseudonym: Jean Howard. Gabriel was living with his parents in Cook County, Illinois, in 1910. He was still there in 1920 with his wife Ethel. In 1926, he was musical director and announcer for radio station KLX in Oakland, California. By 1930, he and his wife were in Los Angeles County, California. The January 30, 1926 issue of Colliers magazine said of him: "Gabe" has experienced all those changes which the Fates deem necessary to broaden one’s views. He has taught music in the Indianapolis [Indiana] and Northwestern Conservatories; edited mechanical and automobile magazines; traveled with Billy Sunday; been a newspaper reporter; rewrite man; music editor and book reviewer. In his spare time he has managed to produce eight hundred compositions which have been printed. He first became interested in radio when he was appointed director of WGN in Chicago [Illinois]. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Ina Duley Ogdon

1872 - 1964 Person Name: Ina D. Ogdon Hymnal Title: Timeless Truths Author of "Brighten the Corner Where You Are" in Timeless Truths Ogdon, Ina Duley. (Rossville, Illinois, 1872--May 18, 1964, Toledo, Ohio). Disciples of Christ. Granddaughter of a Methodist minister, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Duley. Married James Ogdon. She wrote: "My father went with my mother to her church after his marriage to her, so I was brought up in the church of the Disciples of Christ." She wrote over three thousand hymns, anthems, cantatas, and miscellaneous verse. Her hymns include "Brighten the corner where you are," 1912; "Carry your cross with a smile," 1916; "My Lord abides;" "When you know Jesus too;" "Tell Jesus;" "Lighten the burden for someone;" "I have been saved," Her first hymn was "Open wide the window." Composer Charles Gabriel wrote, "Loved by thousands who have sung her hymns, she shrinks from celebrity in the knowledge that her songs are God-given and that without Him she could do nothing." See: Beattie, David J. (1931). The Romance of Sacred Song. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, Ltd. The Presbyterian Survey November 1952. The Toledo Blade, 19 May 1964. --Ernest K. Emurian, DNAH Archives Photo from Joseph Gardner collection from website "Ina Duly Ogdon Home" by Melissa Archibald (http://www.freewebs.com/marchi/inaphotosarticles.htm)

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: Charles H. Gabriel Hymnal Title: Timeless Truths Composer of "[Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do]" in Timeless Truths 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