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[Oh, my heart is full of laughter]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: L. L. Pickett Incipit: 12313 12161 51353 Used With Text: Ishi

Author: Emma Hopper Appears in 9 hymnals First Line: Oh, my heart is full of laughter Refrain First Line: Wilt thou have this precious "Ishi" Used With Tune: [Oh, my heart is full of laughter]

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Ishi

Author: Emma Hopper Hymnal: Tears and Triumphs No. 2 #33 (1897) First Line: Oh, my heart is full of laughter Refrain First Line: Wilt thou have this precious "Ishi" Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, my heart is full of laughter]

Ishi

Author: H. L. Gilmour; Emma Hopper Hymnal: Jewel Songs #128 (1910) First Line: O my heart is full of laughter Refrain First Line: Wilt thou have this precious "I-shi" Languages: English Tune Title: [O my heart is full of laughter]

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H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Author (chorus) of "Ishi" in Jewel Songs Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry

L. L. Pickett

1859 - 1928 Composer of "[O my heart is full of laughter]" in Jewel Songs Rv Leander Lycurgus Pickett USA 1859-1928. Born at Burnsville, MS, he became a Methodist evangelist. He held meetings in several states and at Holiness campgrounds. After marrying Ludie, they served pastorates in northeast TX, and Columbia, SC, before moving to Wilmore, KY. Pickett married Pruvy Melviney Dorough in 1878, and they had a son, James, in 1880. After her death in 1887, he married Ludie in 1888. He was a renowned speaker, leader, minister, author, hymnwriter, and patriot, prominent in the Holiness Movement, and helped found Asbury College (now University), at Wilmore, KY, where he also served as the financial agent of the board of trustees for many years. The Picketts boarded m,inistry students attending Asbury, among whom was missionary E Stanley Jones. In 1905 a student prayer meeting at the Pickett home spilled out to the Asbury campus in a revival that spread around the town of Wilmore. Between 1891 and 1926 Pickett published 11 song books, some with others, including John Sweney, William J Kirkpatrick, John Bryant, Martin Knapp, Elisha A Hoffman, Burke Culpepper, William Marks, Benjamin Butts, and Robert McNeill. He died at Middlesboro, KY. John Perry