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[What though our backs are bending at times beneath the load]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 53332 21121 76551
[What though our backs are bending at times beneath the load]
No Cross to Carry Over There
Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: What tho' our backs are bending at times beneath the load Refrain First Line: There'll be no cross to carry over there Lyrics: 1 What tho' our backs are bending at times beneath the load,
When oft the cross is heavy that we bear,
This thought should bring us comfort upon life's weary road,
There'll be no cross to carry over there.
Refrain:
There'll be no cross to carry over there,
Not a burden, not a sorrow, not a care;
Tho' here we faint and falter and bend beneath the load,
There will be no cross to carry over there.
2 Perhaps a cross of sorrow has almost weighed us down,
When skies are filled with clouds of dark despair,
'Tis then we hear Faith whisper, "Beyond the Cross the Crown,
There'll be no cross to carry over there." [Refrain]
3 If we would reign with Jesus above yon starry dome,
His cross while on our journey we must share,
But O, the joy of finding when we are safe at home,
There'll be no cross to carry over there. [Refrain]
4 So we will bear for Jesus His cross along life's way,
Until we reach those mansions bright and fair,
Then we'll sing hallelujah, because for endless days
There'll be no cross to carry over there. [Refrain] Topics: Cross Used With Tune: [What though our backs are bending at times]
No Cross to Carry Over There
No Cross to Carry Over There
Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Worship and Service #104 (1916) First Line: What tho' our backs are bending at times beneath the load Refrain First Line: There'll be no cross to carry over there Lyrics: 1 What tho' our backs are bending at times beneath the load,
When oft the cross is heavy that we bear,
This thought should bring us comfort upon life's weary road,
There'll be no cross to carry over there.
Refrain:
There'll be no cross to carry over there,
Not a burden, not a sorrow, not a care;
Tho' here we faint and falter and bend beneath the load,
There will be no cross to carry over there.
2 Perhaps a cross of sorrow has almost weighed us down,
When skies are filled with clouds of dark despair,
'Tis then we hear Faith whisper, "Beyond the Cross the Crown,
There'll be no cross to carry over there." [Refrain]
3 If we would reign with Jesus above yon starry dome,
His cross while on our journey we must share,
But O, the joy of finding when we are safe at home,
There'll be no cross to carry over there. [Refrain]
4 So we will bear for Jesus His cross along life's way,
Until we reach those mansions bright and fair,
Then we'll sing hallelujah, because for endless days
There'll be no cross to carry over there. [Refrain] Topics: Cross Tune Title: [What though our backs are bending at times]
No Cross to Carry Over There
No Cross to Carry Over There
Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Wonder Hymns of Faith #128 (1923) First Line: What tho' our backs are bending at times beneath the load Refrain First Line: There'll be no cross to carry over there Languages: English Tune Title: [What tho' our backs are bending at times beneath the load]
No Cross to Carry Over There
Johnson Oatman, Jr.
1856 - 1922 Author of "No Cross to Carry Over There" in Worship and Service 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
Johnson Oatman, Jr.
Chas. H. Gabriel
1856 - 1932 Composer of "[What though our backs are bending at times]" in Worship and Service Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree
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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
Chas. H. Gabriel
