HYMNS YOU LOVE------------- By Phil Kerr Am erica The Beautifu l Words by Katherine Lee Bates Music by Samuel Ward K atherine Lee Bates was born in Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 12, 1859. She received a splendid education, earning literary de grees, and became professor of English at Wellesley College. She authored 17 books. In 1893 she journeyed across the country to teach summer school in Colorado Springs. En- route she stopped at the Exposi tion in Chicago, and was im pressed by the grandeur of America’s advancement as depict ed there. Soon after reaching Colorado, friends took her to the top of Pike’s Peak. As she gazed at the soul-stirring panoramic vista spreading before her for hundreds of miles, “ then and there [she wrote] the opening lines of ‘0 beautiful for spacious skies’ sprang into being.” She completed the poem a few days later in Colorado Springs. Return ing East, she retained her con nection with Wellesley College until her death, March 29, 1929. Several tunes have been com posed especially for “ America The Beautiful,” and it is a strange fact that the tune Materna, which is most generally used, was or iginally composed for another song! In 1882, 11 years before the poem was written, Samuel Ward composed a time for a hymn which was called “ 0 Moth er Dear, Jerusalem,” the tune receiving the name Materna. Samuel Augustus Ward was bom Dec. 28, 1848, in Newark, N.J. and died there Sept. 28, 1903. For years he was the proprietor of a music store, and was the director of a choral club. A lm ost Persuaded Words and Music by Philip Bliss An evangelist named Brun- dage was preaching one night in Chicago, basing his sermon on the story of Paul’s trial before Agrip- pa, using as his text “ Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian” (Acts 26:28). He concluded the sermon with the statement that “ He who is almost persuaded is almost saved, and to be almost saved is to be entirely lost.” Phil ip Bliss was in the audience, and was immediately inspired to write this song.
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