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Speed It On!

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Speed it, speed the gospel call

[Speed it, speed the gospel call]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Rosecrans Used With Text: Speed it on

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Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Songs for the King's Business #95 (1909) First Line: Speed it, speed the gospel call Topics: Call to Service; Missions; Service Tune Title: [Speed it, speed the gospel call]

Speed It On!

Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: One Hundred Gospel Hymns #37 (1902) First Line: Speed it—speed the Gospel call! Languages: English Tune Title: [Speed it—speed the Gospel call!]

Speed It On!

Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Songs for Men #89 (1913) First Line: Speed it—speed the Gospel call! Languages: English Tune Title: [Speed it—speed the Gospel call!]

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie H. Brown Author of "Speed it on" in Songs for the King's Business 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. H. Rosecrans

1845 - 1926 Composer of "[Speed it, speed the gospel call]" in Songs for the King's Business James Holmes Rosecrans studied at the Baxter University of Music in Friendship, New York. After teaching for two years, he joined the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, Ohio. As of 1880, he was teaching music in Douglas County, Colorado. In 1884, was an evangelist in California, and later was associated with evangelistic efforts in Texas, and taught music and Bible at Carlton College in Bonham, Texas. He published over 20 music collections in his lifetime. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)