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[Working for Jesus To-day]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. F. Myers Tune Key: D Flat Major Incipit: 34565 33512 16765 Used With Text: Bring Your Flowers

Author: Laura E. Newell Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: In our dear blessed cause we are workers today Refrain First Line: In our cause Used With Tune: [In our dear blessed cause we are workers today]

Bring Your Flowers

Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Bring your beautiful flow'rs for the Saviour to-day Refrain First Line: Bring your flow'rs, bright flow'rs Topics: Children's Day; Flower Day Used With Tune: [Working for Jesus To-day]

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Working for Jesus To-day

Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: The Search Light #102 (1894) First Line: In our dear blessed cause we are workers to-day Refrain First Line: In our cause, Blessed cause Topics: Jesús; Work; Young Peoples Societies Scripture: Matthew 21:28 Languages: English Tune Title: [Working for Jesus To-day]

Bring Your Flowers

Hymnal: The Search Light #103 (1894) First Line: Bring your beautiful flow'rs for the Saviour to-day Refrain First Line: Bring your flow'rs, bright flow'rs Topics: Children's Day; Flower Day Languages: English Tune Title: [Working for Jesus To-day]

Look Up, Lift Up

Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: Rich in Blessing #144 (1894) First Line: In our dear blessed cause we are workers today Refrain First Line: In our cause Languages: English Tune Title: [In our dear blessed cause we are workers today]

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Laura E. Newell

1854 - 1916 Author of "Working for Jesus To-day" in The Search Light Born: February 5, 1854, New Marlborough, Connecticut. Died: October 13, 1916, Manhattan, Kansas. Daughter of Mr. and Edward A. Pixley, but orphaned as an infant, Laura was adopted by her aunt, then Mrs. Hiram Mabie, who at the time lived in New York. In 1858, the Mabie family moved to a farm south of where Wamego, Kansas, now stands. Two years after the move, Mr. Mabie died, and his wife resumed teaching. In 1860, Mrs. Mabie accepted a position in Topeka, Kansas, where she taught many years. Under her tutelage, Laura received her education. As early as age 12, Laura was writing rhymes, and two years later her poems began to appear in local newspapers. She had no thought of a literary career; she simply wrote to give vent to her poetical mind. In 1871, Laura married Lauren Newell, a carpenter from Manhattan, Kansas. They had at least six children, and belonged to the Congregational denomination. In 1873, Laura was listening to an address by a speaker who lamented the death of "genuine" hymns, and she resolved to try her hand in that line of work. That began a long period of writing songs, sacred and secular, services for all anniversary occasions, cantatas, adapting words to music, and music to words. "Mrs. Newell is indeed a prolific writer. Her poems number in the thousands. She has had over eight hundred poems published in a single year, a most remarkable record. The great ease with which Mrs. Newell writes is one of her special gifts. Not long since an order, accompanied by music and titles, was sent her for eight poems to suit. At seven o’clock in the evening she sat down to her organ to catch the music. Then she went to her desk, and at ten o’clock the order was ready for the return mail. Her work pleased the publisher so well that he sent her an order for forty-eight additional poems. Mrs. Newell writes several hundred poems annually. She is a very modest and unpretentious lady, and goes about her daily work as cheerfully as her poems advise others to do. The deeply religious character of the woman stands out boldly in nearly all her work. The next world is apparently as real to her as the present. Her heart is in her work, and to the end of life’s chapter, while able, may she wield her pen to tell the Story to dear to her heart, in verse and song." Hall, pp. 316-17 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/n/e/w/newell_lep.htm

A. F. Myers

Composer of "[Working for Jesus To-day] " in The Search Light Augustus (Gus) Franklin Myers USA 1850-1902. Born at Ashland, OH, he was a music composer and publisher. He may have taught music, as his title of ‘Professor’, is noted by one source. His song books include: “The life line”, “The search light” (1894), “The seed sower” (1897). He wrote many lyrics and tunes. He died at Toledo, OH. John Perry