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[When chilly shadows quickly fall]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Fred A. Fillmore Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 55671 32176 55113 Used With Text: Clasp My Hand in Thine

Author: Jessie H. Brown Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: When chilly shadows quickly fall Refrain First Line: O clasp my hand in Thine Lyrics: 1 When chilly shadows quickly fall, And darkness seems to cover all, Dear Savior hear my pleading call, And clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine. Chorus: O clasp my hand in Thine, O clasp my hand in Thine; Hear Thou my prayer and grant Thy care, And clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine. 2 When tempted from the narrow way, When in forbidden paths I stray, In sadness, turning back, I say: Lord, clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine. [Chorus] 3 O closer, closer, hold my hand, And lead me to the summer land, Where I may in Thy presence stand, And clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [When chilly shadows quickly fall]

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Clasp My Hand in Thine

Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Christian Hymns #162 (1935) First Line: When chilly shadows quickly fall Refrain First Line: O clasp my hand in Thine Lyrics: 1 When chilly shadows quickly fall, And darkness seems to cover all, Dear Savior hear my pleading call, And clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine. Chorus: O clasp my hand in Thine, O clasp my hand in Thine; Hear Thou my prayer and grant Thy care, And clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine. 2 When tempted from the narrow way, When in forbidden paths I stray, In sadness, turning back, I say: Lord, clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine. [Chorus] 3 O closer, closer, hold my hand, And lead me to the summer land, Where I may in Thy presence stand, And clasp my hand, O clasp my hand in Thine. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [When chilly shadows quickly fall]

Clasp My Hand in Thine

Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Choice Gospel Hymns #107 (1923) First Line: When chilly shadows quickly fall Tune Title: [When chilly shadows quickly fall]

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie H. Brown Author of "Clasp My Hand in Thine" in Christian Hymns 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)

Fred A. Fillmore

1856 - 1925 Composer of "[When chilly shadows quickly fall]" in Christian Hymns Born: May 15, 1856, Paris, Illinois. Died: November 15, 1925, Terrace Park, Ohio. Buried: Milford, Ohio. Frederick Augustus Fillmore, who was born on May 15, 1856, in Paris, IL, one of seven children, five sons and two daughters, born to Augustus Damon and Hannah Lockwood Fillmore. His father was a preacher in the Christian Church, as well as a composer, songbook compiler, and hymn publisher who developed his own system of musical notation using numbers on the staff in place of note heads. Augustus eventually settled in Cincinnati, OH, and established a music publishing business there. Until 1906, there was no official distinction between "Christian Churches" and "Churches of Christ." The names were used pretty much interchangeably, and many older churches of Christ which are faithful today were once known as "Christian Churches." Fred and his older brother James took over their father's publishing business following the death of Augustus in 1870 and established the Fillmore Brothers Music House. This became a successful Cincinnati music form, publishing church hymnals and later band and orchestral music. For many years the firm issued a monthly periodical, The Music Messenger. The brothers edited many hymnbooks and produced many songs which became popular. Beginning with the songbook Songs of Glory in 1874, there appeared many Fillmore publications which became widely used through churches, especially in the midwest. For these collections, Fred provided a great deal of hymn tunes. --launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/hymnoftheday