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Jesus lifted me

Author: George O. Webster Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When I was sinking in despair

[When I was sinking in despair]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13453 21134 56532 Used With Text: Jesus Lifted Me

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Author: Geo. O. Webster Hymnal: Christian Hymns #304 (1935) First Line: When I was sinking in despair Refrain First Line: From sin's dark night He lifted me Lyrics: 1 When I was sinking in despair, O'erburdened by my sin and care, I raised to heav'n an earnest pray'r And Jesus came and lifted me. Chorus: From sin's dark night He lifted me, When I was in despair; To plains of light He lifted me, And walks beside me there. 2 No other helper could I find, No other friend my wounds to bind, But one I found, so tender, kind, When Jesus came and lifted me. [Chorus] 3 He walks beside me day by day To cheer me on my earthly way, In Him I find my strength and stay, Who heard my pray'r and lifted me. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [When I was sinking in despair]

Jesus Lifted Me

Author: Geo. O. Webster Hymnal: Choice Gospel Hymns #212 (1923) First Line: When I was sinking in despair Tune Title: [When I was sinking in despair]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[When I was sinking in despair]" in Christian Hymns 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