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[Do you know what a cheerful word will do?]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 12334 56633 12345 Used With Text: A Word and a Smile
[Do you know what a cheerful word will do?]

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A Word and a Smile

Author: Florence Hadley Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Do you know what a cheerful word will do? Refrain First Line: Then let us be cheerful, you and I Used With Tune: [Do you know what a cheerful word will do?]
A Word and a Smile

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A Word and a Smile

Author: Florence Hadley Hymnal: Coronation Hymns #s41 (1913) First Line: Do you know what a cheerful word will do? Refrain First Line: Then let us be cheerful, you and I Languages: English Tune Title: [Do you know what a cheerful word will do?]
A Word and a Smile

A Word and a Smile

Author: Florence Hadley Hymnal: Inspiring Hymns #101 (1914) First Line: Do you know what a cheerful word will do? Refrain First Line: Then let us be cheerful, you and I Languages: English Tune Title: [Do you know what a cheerful word will do?]
A Word and a Smile

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Do you know what a cheerful word will do?]" in Inspiring Hymns 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
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Florence J. Hadley

Person Name: Florence Hadley Author of "A Word and a Smile" in Inspiring Hymns 20th Century
Florence J. Hadley
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