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Never, no, never look back!

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Put your hand to the plow and go straight ahead Used With Tune: NEVER LOOK BACK

[Put your hand to the plow and go straight ahead]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 55112 15334 34551 Used With Text: Never Look Back

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Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Progressive Sunday School Songs #148 (1923) First Line: Put your hand to the plow and go straight ahead Refrain First Line: Never, no, never look back Lyrics: 1 Put your hand to the plow and go straight ahead, But never, never look back! For you cannot again live the years that are fled, So never, never look back. Before you is work for the Crucified One; Before you is rest when your day’s work is done; Before you a crown, when the race you have run, So never, never look back. Refrain: Never, no, never look back! Never, no, never look back! If a crown you would wear, There’s a cross you must bear, So never, never look back. 2 Put your hand to the plow, the goal is in sight,— But never, never look back! You must trust in the Lord, and be true to the right, So never, never look back. Behind is the past, with its sin and despair; Behind are the years, filled with sorrow and care; Before you is life in a home bright and fair, So never, never look back. [Refrain] 3 Put your hand to the plow, there’s much to be done, But never, never look back! For the work of the Master is only begun, So never, never look back. Before you are tears you may help wipe away; Before you are hearts filled with doubt and dismay; Go, point them to Jesus and help on the way, But never, never look back. [Refrain] Topics: Service Languages: English Tune Title: [Put your hand to the plow and go straight ahead]

Never Look Back

Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Salvation Songs #126 (1895) First Line: Put your hand to the plow and go straight ahead Refrain First Line: Never, no, never look back! Languages: English Tune Title: [Put your hand to the plow and go straight ahead]

Never, no, never look back!

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: The Praise Hymnal #535 (1896) First Line: Put your hand to the plow and go straight ahead Languages: English Tune Title: NEVER LOOK BACK

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Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Person Name: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Author of "Never Look Back" in Salvation Songs Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Put your hand to the plow and go straight ahead]" in Salvation Songs Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman