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[To the Christian legions comes the sweet command]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 12321 23161 57125 Used With Text: Tell the Story

Author: Rev. Neal A. McAulay Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: To the Christian legions comes the sweet command Refrain First Line: Tell the story, let its music ring Used With Tune: [To the Christian legions comes the sweet command]

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Tell the Story

Author: Rev. Neal A. McAulay Hymnal: Twentieth (20th) Century Songs Part One #84 (1900) First Line: To the Christian legions comes the sweet command Refrain First Line: Tell the story, let its music ring Lyrics: To the Christian legions comes the sweet command, Tell the story, tell the story, Spread the glorious tidings over sea and land, Tell the story o’er and o’er. Chorus: Tell the story, let its music ring, Sweetly peal redeeming grace! Tell the story, let the ransomed sing, Till the world the truth embrace. There are countless millions in the gloom of night, Tell the story, tell the story, Shall the Christian nations give them saving light? Tell the story o’er and o’er. To the heathen nations o’er the wide, wide world, Tell the story, tell the story, Let the gospel banner be at once unfurled, Tell the story o’er and o’er. Let us never falter in the work of love, Tell the story, tell the story, Till the Master calls us to our rest above, Tell the story o’er and o’er. Languages: English Tune Title: [To the Christian legions comes the sweet command]

Tell the Story

Author: Rev. Neal A. McAulay Hymnal: Sifted Wheat #4 (1898) First Line: To the Christian legions comes the sweet command Refrain First Line: Tell the story, let its music ring Languages: English Tune Title: [To the Christian legions comes the sweet command]

Tell the Story

Author: Rev. Neal A. McAulay Hymnal: Special Songs #4 (1898) First Line: To the Christian legions comes the sweet command Refrain First Line: Tell the story, let its music ring Languages: English Tune Title: [To the Christian legions comes the sweet command]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[To the Christian legions comes the sweet command]" 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

Neal A. McAulay

b. 1854 Person Name: Rev. Neal A. McAulay Author of "Tell the Story" in Sifted Wheat McAulay, Neal A. (Nova Scotia, March, 1854--?). Born of Scottish parents "in the English town of Nova Scotia." At age 21 he moved to Boston and from there to Portland, Maine, in 1876. Converted in 1877; went to Chicago in 1882, and entered McCormick Theological Seminary in 1883 (B.D., 1886). Pastorates in Presbyterian churches in Wilton, Iowa (1886-1907) and Lyons, Louisiana (1907-?). In 1889 began writing gospel hymns. --Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company.