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[His gifts are greater than my dreams]
Appears in 14 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. O. Excell Incipit: 55132 16512 1322 Used With Text: The Gifts of God
[His gifts are greater than my dreams]
The Gifts of God
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 21 hymnals First Line: His gifts are greater than my dreams Refrain First Line: His gifts are greater than my dreams Used With Tune: [His gifts are greater than my dreams]
The Gifts of God
The Gifts of God
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: The New Praiseworthy #12 (1916) First Line: His gifts are greater than my dreams Refrain First Line: His gifts are greater than my dreams Lyrics: 1 His gifts are greater than my dreams,
The gifts of God to me;
As countless as the sunset's golden beams,
As boundless as the sea.
Chorus:
His gifts are greater than my dreams,
(His gifts are greater, they are greater than my dreams.)
The gifts of Him who set me free;
And more and more abundant daily seems
The grace of God to me.
2 I ask a part, He give the whole -
Himself, and all beside;
His loving-kindness overflows my soul,
In-rushing as the tide. [Chorus]
3 "His ways are ways of pleasantness,
His paths are paths of peace;"
His hand is ever reaching out to bless;
He bids each sorrow cease. [Chorus]
4 Within my heart He shall have place
To rule and reign supreme;
My voice will ever praise Him for the grace
Of which I ne'er could dream. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [His gifts are greater than my dreams]
The Gifts of God
The Gifts of God
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: Coronation Hymns #32 (1913) First Line: His gifts are greater than my dreams Refrain First Line: His gifts are greater than my dreams Lyrics: 1 His gifts are greater than my dreams,
The gifts of God to me;
As countless as the sunset's golden beams,
As boundless as the sea.
Chorus:
His gifts are greater than my dreams,
The gifts of Him who set me free;
And more and more abundant daily seems
The grace of God to me.
2 I ask a part, He give the whole--
Himself, ad all beside;
His loving-kindness overflows my soul,
In-rushing as the tide. [Chorus]
3 "His ways are ways of pleasantness,
His paths are paths of peace;"
His hand is ever reaching out to bless;
He bids each sorrow cease. [Chorus]
4 Within my heart He shall have place
To rule and reign supreme;
My voice will ever praise Him for the grace
Of which I ne'er could dream. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [His gifts are greater than my dreams]
The Gifts of God
The Gifts Of God
Author: Jesse Brown Pounds Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8139 First Line: His gifts are greater than my dreams Refrain First Line: His gifts are greater than my dreams Lyrics: 1 gifts are greater than my dreams,
The gifts of God to me;
As countless as the sunset’s golden beams,
As boundless as the sea.
Refrain:
His gifts are greater than my dreams,
The gifts of Him who set me free;
And more and more abundant daily seems
The grace of God to me.
2 I ask a part, He gives the whole—
Himself, and all beside;
His lovingkindness overflows my soul,
Inrushing as the tide. [Refrain]
3 His ways are ways of pleasantness,
His paths are paths of peace;
His hand is ever reaching out to bless;
He bids each sorrow cease. [Refrain]
4 Within my heart He shall have place
To rule and reign supreme;
My voice will ever praise Him for the grace
Of which I ne’er could dream. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [His gifts are greater than my dreams]
The Gifts Of God
Jessie Brown Pounds
1861 - 1921 Author of "The Gifts of God" in Service Songs for Young People's Societies, Sunday Schools and Church Prayer Meetings 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)
Jessie Brown Pounds
E. O. Excell
1851 - 1921 Person Name: E.O. Excell Composer of "[His gifts are greater than my dreams] " in The New Praiseworthy Edwin Othello Excel USA 1851-1921. Born at Uniontown, OH, he started working as a bricklayer and plasterer. He loved music and went to Chicago to study it under George Root. He married Eliza Jane “Jennie” Bell in 1871. They had a son, William, in 1874. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became a prominent publisher, composer, song leader, and singer of music for church, Sunday school, and evangelistic meetings. He founded singing schools at various locations in the country and worked with evangelist, Sam Jones, as his song leader for two decades. He established a music publishing house in Chicago and authored or composed over 2,000 gospel songs. While assisting Gypsy Smith in an evangelistic campaign in Louisville, KY, he became ill, and died in Chicago, IL. He published 15 gospel music books between 1882-1925. He left an estate valued at $300,000.
John Perry
E. O. Excell
