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The Call for Volunteers

Author: Eben E. Rexford Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Lo! the banner of the King Refrain First Line: Volunteer for Christ today Used With Tune: [Lo! the banner of the King]

[Lo! the banner of the King]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. F. Incipit: 55556 71333 21325 Used With Text: The Call for Volunteers

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Author: Eben E. Rexford Hymnal: Songs of Gratitude #68 (1877) First Line: Lo! the banner of the King Refrain First Line: Volunteer for Christ today Languages: English Tune Title: [Lo! the banner of the King]

The Call for Volunteers

Author: Eben E. Rexford Hymnal: Songs of Gratitude #68 (1880) First Line: Lo! the banner of the King Refrain First Line: Volunteer for Christ today Languages: English Tune Title: [Lo! the banner of the King]

The Call for Volunteers

Author: Eben E. Rexford Hymnal: Heart Songs #150 (1893) First Line: Lo! the banner of the King Refrain First Line: Volunteer for Christ today Languages: English Tune Title: [Lo! the banner of the King]

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Eben E. Rexford

1848 - 1916 Author of "The Call for Volunteers" in Heart Songs Rexford, Eben Eugene.M (Johnsburg, New York, July 16, 1848--October 16, 1916, Shiocton, Wisconsin). Horticulturalist and editor of a Wisconsin farm journal. Many of his verses were used to fill empty corners of the journal. He also wrote many books on gardening. Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisc.), Litt.D. Twenty-five years, organist at First Congregational Church, Shiocton. See: Smith, Mary L.P. (1930). Eben E. Rexford; a biographical sketch. Menasha, Wis., George Banta Pub. Co. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives and Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company. =============== Rexford, Eben Eugene , an American writer, born July 16, 1848, is the author of Nos. 199, 246, 263, 353, in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos), 1878, No. 5, and 456 in the Methodist Sunday School Hymnbook, 1879. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================ Rexford, E. E. , p. 1587, ii. Additional hymns by this author in common use include:— 1. He saw the wheat fields waiting. Harvest of the World. 2. O where are the reapers. Missions. 3. Rouse up to work that waits for us. Duty. 4. We are sailing o'er an ocean. Life's Vicissitudes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Lo! the banner of the King]" in Heart Songs 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