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Earth's ten thousand voices
Author: Walter Hawkins Appears in 5 hymnals Used With Tune: CLEWORTH
Earth's ten thousand voices
Earth's Ten Thousand Voices
Author: Walter Hawkins Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #9909 Meter: 11.11.11.11 First Line: Earth’s ten thousand voices daily rise and fall Lyrics: 1 Earth’s ten thousand voices daily rise and fall;
But there’s one within me Clearer than them all.
’Tis the voice of Jesus; And I do not know
When its tones first sounded, ’Tis so long ago.
2 As the days of childhood happily have sped,
Oft the voice has thrilled me: follow Me! it said.
Either in the accents pf authority,
Or of love sore wounded, as from Calvary.
3 Speak, Thy servant heareth; speak whate’er Thou wilt;
Let me know Thy mercy; let me know my guilt.
Conquer my perverseness; cure me of delay;
Save me, Lord and Savior, save—this very day. Languages: English Tune Title: SKARA BRAE
Earth's Ten Thousand Voices
Earth's ten thousand voices
Author: Walter Hawkins Hymnal: Alleluia #165 (1916) Topics: Christ Master; Christ Presence of; Christ Voice of; Décision; Waiting on God Languages: English Tune Title: [Earth's ten thousand voices]
Earth's ten thousand voices
Earth's ten thousand voices
Author: Walter Hawkins Hymnal: Gloria #136 (1916) Languages: English Tune Title: CLEWORTH
Earth's ten thousand voices
Walter Hawkins
1809 - 1894 Author of "Earth's ten thousand voices" in Gloria Hawkins, Walter. (Georgetown, Maryland, 1809?--August 6, 1894, Toronto, Ontario). American/British Methodist Episcopal. Born a slave, he reckoned that he was converted in 1822, but had little chance to develop his faith until he escaped to Philadelphia about 1840. Moving to Buffalo, New York, he organized an AME congregation before settling (after a brief stay in New Bedford, Massachusetts) on a farm near Saratoga. The Fugitive Slave Act (1850) brought about his move to Toronto, whose few black Methodists were then worshipping with their white neighbors; both accepted his services as a lay preacher. In 1856, however, Ontario's blacks formed a British ME church, which accepted him as a full-time pastor for communities which many ex-slaves were reaching by the Underground Railroad: Brantford (1856-1858), St. Catharines (1858-1860), Dresden (1860-1862), Chatham (1862-1866), and Amherstburg (1866-1868). In 1868, just after his return to the largest BME congregation, at St. Catharines, three of his children died in quick succession. To help him recover from his grief, his people urged him to organize a travelling choir, whose earnings might bolster the denomination's shaky finances. His own fine voice and personality helped to make this choir's tours successful, as did the songs he wrote for it. Largely on his advice, BME declined invitations to united with Canada's other Methodist groups in 1874, or with the American AME in 1886. At that point they insisted, despite Hawkins' age, on electing him bishop for two four-year terms; he represented them ably at conferences of both Canadian and British Methodists, who invariably asked him to sing.
See: Edwards, S.J. Celestine. From slavery to a bishopric. London, Kensit, 1891.
--Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives
Walter Hawkins
