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Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 104 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Somewhere the sun is shining Refrain First Line: Somewhere beautiful, beautiful isle

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BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF SOMEWHERE

Appears in 76 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. S. Fearis Hymnal Title: Favorite Hymns of Praise Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 32151 17432 67653 Used With Text: Some Day!

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Beautiful isle

Author: Jessie H. Brown Pounds Hymnal: A Messenger for Jesus #d268 (1913) Hymnal Title: A Messenger for Jesus First Line: Somewhere the sun is shining Refrain First Line: Somewhere, somewhere Languages: English

Somewhere, somewhere

Author: Jessie B. Pounds Hymnal: A Treasury of Hymns #321 (1953) Hymnal Title: A Treasury of Hymns First Line: Somewhere the sun is shining Languages: English Tune Title: [Somewhere the sun is shining]

Somewhere the Sun is Shining

Author: Jessie B. Pounds Hymnal: A. M. E. C. Hymnal #458 (1954) Hymnal Title: A. M. E. C. Hymnal Refrain First Line: Somewhere, Somewhere, Beautiful Isle of Somewhere! Languages: English Tune Title: [Somewhere the sun is shining]

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Avis B. Christiansen

1895 - 1985 Hymnal Title: Favorite Hymns of Praise Author (v. 2, 3, and refrain) of "Some Day! " in Favorite Hymns of Praise Avis Marguerite Burgeson was born in 1895 and lived in Chicago all her life. She attended the Moody Church, pastored for many years by Dr. Harry Ironside. In 1917, Avis Burgeson married Ernest Christiansen who later became a vice president of Moody Bible Institute. She was a modest and retiring woman, and sometimes used pen names: Avis Burgesson, Christian B. Anson and Constance B. Reid. She began writing poems in childhood, and before her death in 1985 had written thousands of them. She died in 1985. NN, Hymnary

Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie B. Pounds Hymnal Title: Great Songs of the Church Author of "Somewhere The Sun is Shining" in Great Songs of the Church Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

J. S. Fearis

1867 - 1932 Person Name: J. S. Ferris Hymnal Title: Great Songs of the Church Composer of "BEAUTIFUL ISLE" in Great Songs of the Church John Sylvester Fearis, 1867-1932 Born: February 5, 1867, Richland, Iowa. Died: September 2, 1932, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Fearis’ father was a successful singing school teacher, and a painter by trade. At a young age, John learned to read music in his father’s classes. He was passionately fond of music, and, taking lessons on the reed organ, he was soon able to play in Sunday school and church. Later he took charge of the church choir, and taught singing classes in nearby towns. He wrote his first hymn tune at age 16. He eventually joined the editorial staff of the Choir Leader, published by the Lorenz Publishing Company in Dayton, Ohio. Sources-- Choir Herald, December 1932, p. 219 Emurian, p. 17 Hall, pp. 393-4 Lyrics-- Brightly Beams Another Morning Children’s Day Show Me the Way, My Shepherd What Comfort to Our Hearts What Wonderful Love Is the Love Music-- Be Thou Exalted Beautiful Isle of Somewhere God May Call for You Little Raindrops Promise Made to Mother, The Songs in the Night Show Me the Way, My Shepherd There’s Light for a Step Wherever He Leads Me I’ll Go --hymntime.com/tch