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[The Lord of the harvest is coming]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Grant Colfax Tullar Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 55671 23462 21776 Used With Text: The Lord of the Harvest

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The Lord of the Harvest

Author: Laura E. Pixley Newell Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal First Line: The Lord of the harvest is coming Refrain First Line: The Lord of the harvest is coming, is coming Lyrics: 1. The Lord of the harvest is coming, We know not the day it will be When He shall appear to His people, The hour we His glory shall see. Oh soul, are you ready to meet Him, His own can you joyfully yield, When Jesus shall come in His beauty To earth, to His great harvest field? Refrain The Lord of the harvest is coming, is coming We know not the day and we know not the hour, When He shall appear in His glory, His might and His wonderful power. 2. The Lord of the harvest is coming, The world shall acknowledge His might When He shall descend with His angels, His angels of glory and light. A message of joy to His faithful, But where will the faithless be found? When Jesus shall come to His people His voice through the world shall resound. [Refrain] 3. The Lord of the harvest is coming, Be ready, He bids thee to wait, For oh, in the clouds we shall see Him, If early He cometh, or late. Prepare, nor delay, bid Him welcome, So soon His dear face thou shalt see, The Savior is coming so surely, A message He’ll bring unto thee. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [The Lord of the harvest is coming]

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The Lord of the Harvest

Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 #20 (1903) Hymnal Title: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 First Line: The Lord of the harvest is coming Refrain First Line: The Lord is coming Topics: Christ's coming; Harvest; Rally Day Languages: English Tune Title: [The Lord of the harvest is coming]

The Lord of the Harvest

Author: Laura E. Pixley Newell Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #3971 Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal First Line: The Lord of the harvest is coming Refrain First Line: The Lord of the harvest is coming, is coming Lyrics: 1. The Lord of the harvest is coming, We know not the day it will be When He shall appear to His people, The hour we His glory shall see. Oh soul, are you ready to meet Him, His own can you joyfully yield, When Jesus shall come in His beauty To earth, to His great harvest field? Refrain The Lord of the harvest is coming, is coming We know not the day and we know not the hour, When He shall appear in His glory, His might and His wonderful power. 2. The Lord of the harvest is coming, The world shall acknowledge His might When He shall descend with His angels, His angels of glory and light. A message of joy to His faithful, But where will the faithless be found? When Jesus shall come to His people His voice through the world shall resound. [Refrain] 3. The Lord of the harvest is coming, Be ready, He bids thee to wait, For oh, in the clouds we shall see Him, If early He cometh, or late. Prepare, nor delay, bid Him welcome, So soon His dear face thou shalt see, The Savior is coming so surely, A message He’ll bring unto thee. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [The Lord of the harvest is coming]

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Laura E. Newell

1854 - 1916 Person Name: Laura E. Pixley Newell Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Author of "The Lord of the Harvest" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: February 5, 1854, New Marlborough, Connecticut. Died: October 13, 1916, Manhattan, Kansas. Daughter of Mr. and Edward A. Pixley, but orphaned as an infant, Laura was adopted by her aunt, then Mrs. Hiram Mabie, who at the time lived in New York. In 1858, the Mabie family moved to a farm south of where Wamego, Kansas, now stands. Two years after the move, Mr. Mabie died, and his wife resumed teaching. In 1860, Mrs. Mabie accepted a position in Topeka, Kansas, where she taught many years. Under her tutelage, Laura received her education. As early as age 12, Laura was writing rhymes, and two years later her poems began to appear in local newspapers. She had no thought of a literary career; she simply wrote to give vent to her poetical mind. In 1871, Laura married Lauren Newell, a carpenter from Manhattan, Kansas. They had at least six children, and belonged to the Congregational denomination. In 1873, Laura was listening to an address by a speaker who lamented the death of "genuine" hymns, and she resolved to try her hand in that line of work. That began a long period of writing songs, sacred and secular, services for all anniversary occasions, cantatas, adapting words to music, and music to words. "Mrs. Newell is indeed a prolific writer. Her poems number in the thousands. She has had over eight hundred poems published in a single year, a most remarkable record. The great ease with which Mrs. Newell writes is one of her special gifts. Not long since an order, accompanied by music and titles, was sent her for eight poems to suit. At seven o’clock in the evening she sat down to her organ to catch the music. Then she went to her desk, and at ten o’clock the order was ready for the return mail. Her work pleased the publisher so well that he sent her an order for forty-eight additional poems. Mrs. Newell writes several hundred poems annually. She is a very modest and unpretentious lady, and goes about her daily work as cheerfully as her poems advise others to do. The deeply religious character of the woman stands out boldly in nearly all her work. The next world is apparently as real to her as the present. Her heart is in her work, and to the end of life’s chapter, while able, may she wield her pen to tell the Story to dear to her heart, in verse and song." Hall, pp. 316-17 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/n/e/w/newell_lep.htm

Grant Colfax Tullar

1869 - 1950 Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Composer of "[The Lord of the harvest is coming]" in The Cyber Hymnal Grant Colfax Tullar was born August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut. He was named after the American President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. After the American Civil War, his father was disabled and unable to work, having been wounded in the Battle of Antietam. Tullar's mother died when he was just two years old so Grant had no settled home life until he became an adult. Yet from a life of sorrow and hardship he went on to bring joy to millions of Americans with his songs and poetry. As a child, he received virtually no education or religious training. He worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk. The last Methodist camp meeting in Bolton was in 1847. Tullar became a Methodist at age 19 at a camp meeting near Waterbury in 1888. He then attended the Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey. He became an ordained Methodist minister and pastored for a short time in Dover, Delaware. For 10 years he was the song leader for evangelist Major George A. Hilton. Even so, in 1893 he also helped found the well-known Tullar-Meredith Publishing Company in New York, which produced church and Sunday school music. Tullar composed many popular hymns and hymnals. His works include: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar Meredith Co., 1903) and The Bible School Hymnal (New York: Tullar Meredith Co., 1907). One of Grant Tullar's most quoted poems is "The Weaver": My Life is but a weaving Between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft times He weaveth sorrow And I, in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, And I the under side. Not til the loom is silent And the shuttles cease to fly, Shall God unroll the canvas And explain the reason why. The dark threads are as needful In the Weaver's skillful hand, As the threads of gold and silver In the pattern He has planned. He knows, He loves, He cares, Nothing this truth can dim. He gives His very best to those Who chose to walk with Him. Grant Tullar --http://www.boltoncthistory.org/granttullar.html, from Bolton Community News, August 2006.