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[Do you often grow discouraged with the little you can do]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 51323 43215 76656 Used With Text: Your Light Is Needed

Author: Ina Dudley Ogdon Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Do you often grow discouraged with the little you can do? Refrain First Line: Your light is needed, let it shine Lyrics: 1 Do you often grow discouraged with the little you can do? Does the world with all its burdens have no seeming need of you? Do not feel yourself forgotten in the wondrous plan divine, Your light is needed—let it shine. Refrain: Your light is needed, let it shine. Your light is needed, let it shine. Your light is needed, let it shine; Thro’ the dark and stormy night, Keep its rays serenely bright, Your light is needed—let it shine. 2 In the barren, thorny places plant a flower, sing a song, You may guide the lost and weary to the Arm secure and strong; Often-times a single jewel has disclosed the hidden mine,— Your light is needed—let it shine. [Refrain] 3 Many hearts are sad and lonely, many need a helping hand; By a word, a deed of kindness you may help some one to stand; For a nobler, greater mission never murmur or repine,— Your light is needed—let it shine. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Do you often grow discouraged with the little you can do]

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Your Light Is Needed

Author: Ina Dudley Ogdon Hymnal: Great Revival Hymns No. 2 #4 (1913) First Line: Do you often grow discouraged with the little you can do? Refrain First Line: Your light is needed, let it shine Lyrics: 1 Do you often grow discouraged with the little you can do? Does the world with all its burdens have no seeming need of you? Do not feel yourself forgotten in the wondrous plan divine, Your light is needed—let it shine. Refrain: Your light is needed, let it shine. Your light is needed, let it shine. Your light is needed, let it shine; Thro’ the dark and stormy night, Keep its rays serenely bright, Your light is needed—let it shine. 2 In the barren, thorny places plant a flower, sing a song, You may guide the lost and weary to the Arm secure and strong; Often-times a single jewel has disclosed the hidden mine,— Your light is needed—let it shine. [Refrain] 3 Many hearts are sad and lonely, many need a helping hand; By a word, a deed of kindness you may help some one to stand; For a nobler, greater mission never murmur or repine,— Your light is needed—let it shine. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Do you often grow discouraged with the little you can do]

Your Light Is Needed

Author: Ina Dudley Ogdon Hymnal: World Wide Revival Songs #59 (1915) First Line: Do you often grow discouraged with the little you can do? Refrain First Line: Your light is needed, let it shine Languages: English Tune Title: [Do you often grow discouraged with the little you can do?]

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Ina Duley Ogdon

1872 - 1964 Person Name: Ina Dudley Ogdon Alterer of "Your Light Is Needed" in Great Revival Hymns No. 2 Ogdon, Ina Duley. (Rossville, Illinois, 1872--May 18, 1964, Toledo, Ohio). Disciples of Christ. Granddaughter of a Methodist minister, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Duley. Married James Ogdon. She wrote: "My father went with my mother to her church after his marriage to her, so I was brought up in the church of the Disciples of Christ." She wrote over three thousand hymns, anthems, cantatas, and miscellaneous verse. Her hymns include "Brighten the corner where you are," 1912; "Carry your cross with a smile," 1916; "My Lord abides;" "When you know Jesus too;" "Tell Jesus;" "Lighten the burden for someone;" "I have been saved," Her first hymn was "Open wide the window." Composer Charles Gabriel wrote, "Loved by thousands who have sung her hymns, she shrinks from celebrity in the knowledge that her songs are God-given and that without Him she could do nothing." See: Beattie, David J. (1931). The Romance of Sacred Song. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, Ltd. The Presbyterian Survey November 1952. The Toledo Blade, 19 May 1964. --Ernest K. Emurian, DNAH Archives Photo from Joseph Gardner collection from website "Ina Duly Ogdon Home" by Melissa Archibald (http://www.freewebs.com/marchi/inaphotosarticles.htm)

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Do you often grow discouraged with the little you can do]" in Great Revival Hymns No. 2 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