Search Results

[Bravely launch the temperance life boat]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Gilmour Incipit: 54321 65112 33432

Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Bravely launch the temp'rance life-boat Refrain First Line: Quickly launch the temperance life-boat Used With Tune: [Bravely launch the temp'rance life-boat]

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

The Temperance Life-Boat

Hymnal: The Silver Trumpet #6 (1889) First Line: Bravely launch the temp'rance life-boat Refrain First Line: Quickly launch the temperance life-boat Languages: English Tune Title: [Bravely launch the temp'rance life-boat]

The Temperance Life Boat

Hymnal: Prohibition Melodist #28 (1888) First Line: Bravely launch the temp'rance life-boat Refrain First Line: Quickly launch the temp'rance life-boat Topics: Temperance Languages: English Tune Title: [Bravely launch the temp'rance life-boat]

The Temperance Life Boat

Hymnal: Winning Songs #177 (1892) First Line: Bravely launch the temp'rance life-boat Refrain First Line: Quickly launch the temp'rance life-boat Languages: English Tune Title: [Bravely launch the temp'rance life-boat]

People

Authors, composers, editors, etc.

H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Person Name: Dr. H. L. Gilmour Composer of "[Bravely launch the temp'rance life-boat]" in The Silver Trumpet Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry