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[Death-bells tolling, tolling, tolling]
Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. Edw. Prior Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 33431 11722 42772 Used With Text: To the Rescue
[Death-bells tolling, tolling, tolling]
To the Rescue
Author: Priscilla J. Owens Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: Death-bells tolling, tolling, tolling Refrain First Line: Sign our pledge, now sign Lyrics: 1 Death-bells tolling, tolling, tolling,
Wrecks adrift and breakers rolling;
Where the floods of intemp'rance rave,
Light the beacon, and speed to save.
Chorus:
Sign, our pledge, now sign,
And strength divine shall yet be thine;
Sign our pledge, now sign,
Touch not, taste not the wine.
2 Voices cheering, life-boats steering,
See, the helping hands are nearing,
While the pledge, our glad signal, flies,
Hopeful message to weary eyes. [Chorus]
3 Joy-bells ringing, ringing, ringing,
friends a hearty welcome bringing;
Heav'n bends down our joy a-near,
Greets the rescued with words of cheer. [Chorus]
Topics: Patriotic and Temperance Used With Tune: [Death-bells tolling, tolling, tolling]
To the Rescue
To the Rescue
Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: International Praise #113 (1902) First Line: Deathbells tolling, tolling, tolling Refrain First Line: Sign our pledge, now sign Languages: English Tune Title: [Deathbells tolling, tolling, tolling]
To the Rescue
To the Rescue
Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: The New Praiseworthy #356 (1916) First Line: Death-bells tolling, tolling, tolling Refrain First Line: Sign our pledge, now sign Lyrics: 1 Death-bells tolling, tolling, tolling,
Wrecks adrift and breakers rolling;
Where the floods of intemp'rance rave,
Light the beacon, and speed to save.
Chorus:
Sign, our pledge, now sign,
And strength divine shall yet be thine;
Sign our pledge, now sign,
Touch not, taste not the wine.
2 Voices cheering, life-boats steering,
See, the helping hands are nearing,
While the pledge, our glad signal, flies,
Hopeful message to weary eyes. [Chorus]
3 Joy-bells ringing, ringing, ringing,
friends a hearty welcome bringing;
Heav'n bends down our joy a-near,
Greets the rescued with words of cheer. [Chorus]
Topics: Patriotic and Temperance Languages: English Tune Title: [Death-bells tolling, tolling, tolling]
To the Rescue
To the Rescue
Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.1 #57 (1887) First Line: Death-bells tolling, tolling, tolling Refrain First Line: Sign our pledge, now sign Languages: English Tune Title: [Death-bells tolling, tolling, tolling]
To the Rescue
Priscilla Jane Owens
1829 - 1907 Person Name: Priscilla J. Owens Author of "To the Rescue" in International Praise Owens, Priscilla Jane, was born July 21, 1829, of Scotch and Welsh descent, and is now (1906) resident at Baltimore, where she is engaged in public-school work. For 50 years Miss Owen has interested herself in Sunday-school work, and most of her hymns were written for children's services. Her hymn in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, "We have heard a joyful sound" (Missions), was written for a Sunday-school Mission Anniversary, and the words were adapted to the chorus "Vive le Roi" in the opera The Huguenots. [Rev. James Bonar, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix II (1907)
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Owens, Priscilla Jane. (July 21, 1829--December 5, 1907). Of Scottish and Welsh ancestry, she spent her entire life in Baltimore. She was a public school teacher there for 49 years. She was a member of the Union Square Methodist Church and took particular interest in its Sunday School.
Her literary efforts, both in prose and poetry, appeared in such religious periodicals as the Methodist Protestant and the Christian Standard.
--William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives
Priscilla Jane Owens
Charles Edward Prior
1856 - 1927 Person Name: Chas. Edw. Prior Composer of "[Deathbells tolling, tolling, tolling]" in International Praise Charles Edward Prior, 1856-1927
Prior played the piano at the Italian Baptist Mission in Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 19th Century.
Music--
Go Stand and Speak
Work for Us All
--hymntime.com/tch
Charles Edward Prior
H. T. Crossley
1850 - 1934 Person Name: H. T. C. Alterer of "To the Rescue" in Songs of Salvation Hugh Thomas Crossley was part of Canadian revival team, along with John Edwin Hunter. They were both Methodist ministers.
Dianne Shapiro, from Revivals and Roller Rinks: religion, leisure and identity in late-nineteenth-century small-town Ontario by Lynn Sorrel Marks, University of Toronto Press, 1996
H. T. Crossley
