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The beautiful message

Author: Grant Colfax Tullar Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: When the world was lost in sin and sorrow Refrain First Line: Love, love, beautiful, beautiful message

[When the world was lost in sin and in sorrow]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: I. H. Meredith Used With Text: The Beautiful Message

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Author: Grant Colfax Tullar Hymnal: The Kingdom of Praise #11 (1920) First Line: When the world was lost in sin and sorrow Refrain First Line: Love, love, beautiful, beautiful message Lyrics: 1 When the world was lost in sin and in sorrow, God, in mercy sent His Son from heav’n above, To redeem it by His blood shed on Calv’ry, So that all the world might know His love. Refrain: “Love, love,” Beautiful, beautiful message, “Love, love,” Sent form the Father above, “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son,” Beautiful, beautiful message, “Love, love, love.” 2 From His Father’s house He came once a stranger, And by cruel hands was scourged and crucified, With a love surpassing all understanding, For the sins of earth He gladly died. [Refrain] 3 Such a love as this, Oh, who can reject it, Swing the heart’s door wide and bid Him enter in, He will fill each heart with love, joy and gladness, And will take away the stain of sin. [Refrain] Tune Title: [When the world was lost in sin and sorrow]

The Beautiful Message

Author: Grant Colfax Tullar Hymnal: Sunday School Melodies #60 (1914) First Line: When the world was lost in sin and sorrow Refrain First Line: Love, love, beautiful, beautiful message Languages: English Tune Title: [When the world was lost in sin and sorrow]

The Beautiful Message

Author: Grant Colfax Tullar Hymnal: The Excelsior Hymnal #101 (1919) First Line: When the world was lost in sin and in sorrow Refrain First Line: “Love, love,” Beautiful, beautiful message Languages: English Tune Title: [When the world was lost in sin and in sorrow]

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Grant Colfax Tullar

1869 - 1950 Author of "The beautiful message" in The Kingdom of Praise Grant Colfax Tullar was born August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut. He was named after the American President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. After the American Civil War, his father was disabled and unable to work, having been wounded in the Battle of Antietam. Tullar's mother died when he was just two years old so Grant had no settled home life until he became an adult. Yet from a life of sorrow and hardship he went on to bring joy to millions of Americans with his songs and poetry. As a child, he received virtually no education or religious training. He worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk. The last Methodist camp meeting in Bolton was in 1847. Tullar became a Methodist at age 19 at a camp meeting near Waterbury in 1888. He then attended the Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey. He became an ordained Methodist minister and pastored for a short time in Dover, Delaware. For 10 years he was the song leader for evangelist Major George A. Hilton. Even so, in 1893 he also helped found the well-known Tullar-Meredith Publishing Company in New York, which produced church and Sunday school music. Tullar composed many popular hymns and hymnals. His works include: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar Meredith Co., 1903) and The Bible School Hymnal (New York: Tullar Meredith Co., 1907). One of Grant Tullar's most quoted poems is "The Weaver": My Life is but a weaving Between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft times He weaveth sorrow And I, in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, And I the under side. Not til the loom is silent And the shuttles cease to fly, Shall God unroll the canvas And explain the reason why. The dark threads are as needful In the Weaver's skillful hand, As the threads of gold and silver In the pattern He has planned. He knows, He loves, He cares, Nothing this truth can dim. He gives His very best to those Who chose to walk with Him. Grant Tullar --http://www.boltoncthistory.org/granttullar.html, from Bolton Community News, August 2006.

I. H. Meredith

1872 - 1962 Composer of "[When the world was lost in sin and sorrow]" in The Kingdom of Praise Pseudonyms Charles C. Ackley (taken from his wife’s name, Clarissa Ackley Cowan) Broughton Edwards Floyd Engle (from his address on Floyd Street in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) Arthur Grantley Bruce Kennedy See also Ackley, Chas. C. 1872-1962 See also Edwards, Broughton