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[Be true to the best you know]

Appears in 5 hymnals Tune Sources: From "America's Easter Guest" Incipit: 55345 55511 2171 Used With Text: Be True to the Best You Know

Be true, be true

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Be true to the best you know Used With Tune: [Be true to the best you know]

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Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Hymns for Today #226 (1920) Refrain First Line: Be true, be true Lyrics: 1 Be true to the best you know; Be true to the dreams within; Keep honor as clean as snow, Untouched by the stain of sin. Refrain: Be true, be true, He loses who stoops to win! to win! Be true, be true, Be true to the dreams within! 2 Be true to your soul’s best light; Be true to your life’s best good; Look up to the cross-marked height, And stand as the brave have stood. [Refrain] 3 Be true to the best you know, Let others do what they will; Though onward alone you go, Be true to the White Christ still. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Be true to the best you know]

Be True to the Best You Know

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: The Junior Hymnal #73 (1923) Refrain First Line: Be true, be true Languages: English Tune Title: [Be true to the best you know]

Be true, be true

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Unity Song Selections #65 (1926) First Line: Be true to the best you know Languages: English Tune Title: [Be true to the best you know]

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Author of "Be True to the Best You Know" in Hymns for Today 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)