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[O I love to tell the blessed story]

Appears in 15 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Miriam E. Oatman Incipit: 12333 21653 12333 Used With Text: How the Fire Fell

Author: Rev. J. Oatman, Jr. Appears in 21 hymnals First Line: O I love to tell the blessed story Refrain First Line: O I never can forget Used With Tune: [O I love to tell the blessed story]

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How the Fire Fell

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #2572 First Line: O I love to tell the blessèd story Refrain First Line: O I never shall forget how the fire fell Lyrics: 1. O I love to tell the blessèd story Since the Lord sanctified me; For my soul received a flood of glory When the Lord sanctified me. Refrain O I never shall forget how the fire fell, How the fire fell, how the fire fell. O I never shall forget how the fire fell When the Lord sanctified me. 2. All my doubts and fears are gone forever Since the Lord sanctified me; For His peace flowed o’er me like a river When the Lord sanctified me. [Refrain] 3. To the world no more my heart is turning Since the Lord sanctified me; For on me His Spirit fell with burning When the Lord sanctified me. [Refrain] 4. There’s a crown awaiting me in Heaven Since the Lord sanctified me; For a heart made clean to me was given When the Lord sanctified me. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [O I love to tell the blessèd story]

How the Fire Fell

Author: Rev. J. Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Praises #15 (1905) First Line: O I love to tell the blessed story Refrain First Line: O I never shall forget how the fire fell Languages: English Tune Title: [O I love to tell the blessed story]

How the Fire Fell

Author: Rev. J. Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Hymns of the Comforter #25 (1938) First Line: O I love to tell the blessed story Refrain First Line: O I never shall forget how the fire fell Languages: English Tune Title: [O I love to tell the blessed story]

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Miriam E. Oatman

1887 - 1987 Composer of "[O I love to tell the blessed story]" in Glorious Freedom Miriam Oatman was the daughter of Joseph Oatman, Jr. and married Frederick F. Blachly. She was a political scientist and served on the Brookings Institution from 1925 to 1933 and taught political science and economics at the American University Graduate School in the 1930’s, and 1940’s. She also wrote over three hundred hymns and composed the music to several of her father's hymns. "How the Fire Fell" is perhaps the most widely known.

Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Person Name: Rev. J. Oatman, Jr. Author of "How the Fire Fell" in Glorious Freedom Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914