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Life Is Not a Feast of Gladness

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 3 hymnals Refrain First Line: To the conflict, never swerving

[Life is not a feast of gladness]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. F. Incipit: 56711 31655 67113 Used With Text: Life is Not a Feast of Gladness

[Life is not a feast of gladness]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 11176 71123 43217 Used With Text: Life is Not a Feast of Gladness

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Life is Not a Feast of Gladness

Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Glory and Praise #78 (1887) Refrain First Line: To the conflict, never swerving Languages: English Tune Title: [Life is not a feast of gladness]

Life is Not a Feast of Gladness

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Choice Gospel Hymns #130 (1923) Tune Title: [Life is not a feast of gladness]

To the conflict, never swerving

Author: Jessie H. Brown Pounds Hymnal: The Children's Hallelujah #d84 (1886) First Line: Life is not a feast of gladness

1849 - 1936 Person Name: J. H. F. Composer of "[Life is not a feast of gladness]" in Glory and Praise James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Author of "Life Is Not a Feast of Gladness" Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)