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Before the Cross

Author: Rev. Neal A. McAulay Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I stood before the cross! Refrain First Line: Oh, friendship all divine Used With Tune: [I stood before the cross!]

[I stood before the cross!]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 56517 21343 26221 Used With Text: Before the Cross

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Author: Rev. Neal A. McAulay Hymnal: Sing Unto the Lord #64 (1906) First Line: I stood before the cross! Refrain First Line: Oh, friendship all divine Languages: English Tune Title: [I stood before the cross!]

Before the Cross

Author: Rev. Neal A. McAulay Hymnal: Diadems #210 (1913) First Line: I stood before the cross! Refrain First Line: Oh, where is love like this? Languages: English Tune Title: [I stood before the cross!]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[I stood before the cross!]" in Sing Unto the Lord 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 "Before the Cross" in Sing Unto the Lord 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.