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Lizzie De Armond

1847 - 1936 Person Name: Lizzie DeArmond Author of "In the cleft of the rock" in Songs for the King's Business Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
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J. S. Fearis

1867 - 1932 Composer of "[High as the mountain though the billows roll]" in Songs for the King's Business John Sylvester Fearis, 1867-1932 Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 5, 1867, Rich­land, Io­wa. Died: Sep­tem­ber 2, 1932, Lake Ge­ne­va, Wis­con­sin. Fearis’ fa­ther was a suc­cess­ful sing­ing school teach­er, and a paint­er by trade. At a young age, John learned to read mu­sic in his fa­ther’s classe­s. He was pas­sion­ate­ly fond of mu­sic, and, tak­ing less­ons on the reed or­gan, he was soon able to play in Sun­day school and church. Lat­er he took charge of the church choir, and taught sing­ing class­es in near­by towns. He wrote his first hymn tune at age 16. He event­u­al­ly joined the ed­it­or­i­al staff of the Choir Lead­er, pub­lished by the Lo­renz Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny in Day­ton, Ohio. Sources-- Choir Her­ald, De­cem­ber 1932, p. 219 Emurian, p. 17 Hall, pp. 393-4 Lyrics-- Brightly Beams Ano­ther Morn­ing Children’s Day Show Me the Way, My Shepherd What Com­fort to Our Hearts What Won­der­ful Love Is the Love Music-- Be Thou Ex­alt­ed Beautiful Isle of Some­where God May Call for You Little Rain­drops Promise Made to Mo­ther, The Songs in the Night Show Me the Way, My Shep­herd There’s Light for a Step Wherever He Leads Me I’ll Go --hymntime.com/tch
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