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[True and faithful is the promise]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 55556 54513 21216 Used With Text: Tell the Glad Tidings

Author: F. G. Burroughs Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: True and faithful is the promise Refrain First Line: Give tidings of great joy Used With Tune: [True and faithful is the promise]

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Glad Tidings

Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: Sifted Wheat #168 (1898) First Line: Oh, how faithful is the saying Refrain First Line: Glad tidings of great joy! Lyrics: 1 Oh, how faithful is the saying, Ev'ry word with hope aglow; - "Though your sins may be as scarlet, They shall be as white as snow." To the guilty heart these tidings Are of peace and pardon full: "Though your sins are red like crimson, They shall even be as wool." Chorus: Glad tidings of great joy! Glad tidings of great joy! 2 Oh, how blessed is the promise To the burden'd and oppress'd: "Come, come unto me, ye weary, Come and I will give you rest. Come and take my yoke upon you; Of the meek and lowly learn; Ye shall find my burden easy, - Find the rest for which you yearn." [Chorus] 3 Oh, how precious is the message To the souls cast down, dismay'd; Hark! "Let not your heart be troubled, Neither let it be afraid." Help is laid upon the Mighty; Nothing is too hard for God; Fear not, for He that redeemed thee Comforts both with staff and rod. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, how faithful is the saying]

Glad Tidings

Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: Songs of the Pentecost for the Forward Gospel Movement #30 (1894) First Line: Oh, how faithful is the saying Refrain First Line: Glad tidings of great joy Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, how faithful is the saying]

Tell the Glad Tidings

Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: Hymns and Spiritual Songs #60 (1904) First Line: True and faithful is the promise Refrain First Line: Give tidings of great joy Languages: English Tune Title: [True and faithful is the promise]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Oh, how faithful is the saying]" in Sifted Wheat 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

Ophelia G. Adams

1856 - 1949 Person Name: F. G. Burroughs Author of "Glad Tidings" in Sifted Wheat Ophelia G. Adams was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) She was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of F. G. Burroughs and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs. Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921