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Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 54 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: If the name of the Savior is precious to you Refrain First Line: O will you not tell it today

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[If the name of the Savior is precious to you]

Appears in 45 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: James H. Fillmore Hymnal Title: Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 12333 54332 22234 Used With Text: Will You Not Tell It Today?

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Tell it today

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: A Hymnal for Joyous Youth #107 (1927) Hymnal Title: A Hymnal for Joyous Youth First Line: If the name of the Saviour is precious to you Refrain First Line: O, will you not tell it today? Languages: English Tune Title: [If the name of the Saviour is precious to you]

Will You Not Tell It Today?

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Best of Southern Gospel #403 (2016) Hymnal Title: Best of Southern Gospel First Line: If the name of the Savior is precious to you Tune Title: [If the name of the Savior is precious to you]

If the Name of the Savior Is Precious to You

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Christian Hymnal II #52 (1958) Hymnal Title: Christian Hymnal II Refrain First Line: O will you not tell it today? Languages: English Tune Title: [If the name of the Savior is precious to you]

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Jessie H. Brown

Hymnal Title: Lasting Hymns Author of "Tell it To-day" in Lasting Hymns See Pounds, Jessie Brown, 1861-1921

Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal Title: Pearls of Praise Author of "Tell it To-day" in Pearls of Praise 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. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Hymnal Title: Pearls of Praise Composer of "[If the name of the Savior is precious to you]" in Pearls of Praise James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry