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The Midnight Cry
Author: Johnson Oatman Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: Time is gliding like the shuttle of the weaver Refrain First Line: O, behold the Bridegroom cometh
The Midnight Cry
[Time is gliding like the shuttle of the weaver]
Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. E. Winsett Incipit: 34555 56512 31176 Used With Text: The Midnight Cry
[Time is gliding like the shuttle of the weaver]
The Midnight Cry
Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Soul Inspiring Songs #30 (1929) First Line: Time is gliding like the shuttle of the weaver Refrain First Line: O, behold the “Bridegroom cometh” Lyrics: 1 Time is gliding like the shuttle of the weave
And the day is swiftly passing by,
If tonight should be the coming of the Bridegroom,
Are you ready for the midnight cry?
Refrain:
O, behold the “Bridegroom cometh,”
What if now it sounded from the sky?
Would to meet Him bring you joy or sorrow?
Are you ready for the midnight cry?
2 You must for Him every day and hour keep watching,
The time for His coming draweth nigh;
In the hour when ye think not, behold He cometh,
Are you ready for the midnight cry? [Refrain]
3 Are your lamps all filled and ready to be lighted,
Is the wedding garment now close by?
Just outside the Bridegroom now may be approaching,
Are you ready for the midnight cry? [Refrain]
4 Soon may ring that awful cry “Behold He Cometh”
In the twinkling, twinkling of an eye;
Only those whom He finds watching will go with Him,
Are you ready for the midnight cry? [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Time is gliding like the shuttle of the weaver]
The Midnight Cry
The Midnight Cry
Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Christ Exalted in Song #30 (1924) First Line: Time is gliding like the shuttle of the weaver Refrain First Line: O, behold the Bridegroom cometh Languages: English Tune Title: [Time is gliding like the shuttle of the weaver]
The Midnight Cry
The Midnight Cry
Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Calvary Hymns #84 (1925) First Line: Time is gliding like the shuttle of the weaver Refrain First Line: O, behold the Bridegroom cometh Languages: English Tune Title: [Time is gliding like the shuttle of the weaver]
The Midnight Cry
Johnson Oatman, Jr.
1856 - 1922 Person Name: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Author of "The Midnight Cry" in Soul Inspiring Songs 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.
R. E. Winsett
1876 - 1952 Composer of "[Time is gliding like the shuttle of the weaver]" in Soul Inspiring Songs Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music.
Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899.
He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory.
He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day).
Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children.
Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame.
--www.wikipedia.org
R. E. Winsett
