1873–1944

Introduction

Born: 1873, Spar­ta, Vir­gin­ia.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 16, 1944, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, of tu­ber­cu­lo­sis.

Buried: Grace­land Ce­me­te­ry, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois.

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Biography

Beazley was the hus­band of Ma­ry Lo­re­na Gar­ner.

He wrote over 4,000 songs, and taught in sing­ing schools for a de­cade, as well as five years at Shen­an­do­ah College in Win­che­ster, Vir­gin­ia. He was in­duct­ed in­to the Gos­pel Music Hall of Fame in 1992.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All the Way with Christ I’ll Go
  2. All the World for the King
  3. Are You Fear­ing to Come to the Sav­ior?
  4. Are You Oft­en Wea­ry with Life’s Cares?
  5. Blessed Be the God of My Sal­va­tion
  6. Blessed Hope, Lin­ger with Me
  7. Build on the Rock
  8. Christians, Ye Are Bright and Shin­ing Lights
  9. Crossing the Ri­ver, Go­ing to That Far Away Land
  10. Do Not Be Dis­cour­aged
  11. Dying Souls That Per­ish
  12. Far Away in the Depths of My Soul
  13. Give Thanks to Him Who Send­eth Down
  14. Go Forth, Ye Chris­tian Work­ers
  15. God’s Pro­mis­es Are Sure In­deed
  16. God’s Re­deemed Are March­ing
  17. Hallelujah, Christ Our Sav­ior
  18. Hallelujah, Sing, Sing, O Sing to Him
  19. He Leads the Hosts of Zi­on On
  20. Hear the Kind Voice of the Sav­ior
  21. I Am Rest­ing Now in His Love Se­cure
  22. I Look up­on Hea­ven’s Deep Az­ure Blue Sky
  23. I Try to Count My Bless­ings
  24. I’m Lost in Won­der When I Think
  25. In Charge of the Mas­ter’s Bu­si­ness
  26. In the Arms of Faith Let Me Rise
  27. In the Har­vest Field
  28. It Was Match­less Love That Found Me
  29. Jesus Died That the Souls of the Lost Might Live
  30. Jesus Died That You and I Might Live
  31. Jesus Free­ly Left His Home
  32. Jesus, the Com­man­der Calls You
  33. Just Be­yond This Earth­ly Tur­moil
  34. Justified Through Faith
  35. Keeping the Path That Leads on to Glo­ry
  36. Lift Away the Sha­dows with a Song Each Day
  37. Listen Girls, Lis­ten Boys
  38. Look Out Along the Way
  39. Love of Je­sus, Oh, How Sweet, The
  40. Marvelous and Pre­cious Is My Sav­ior’s Love
  41. My Heart Was Bowed, My Strength Was Spent
  42. O the Soul Re­deem­ing Blood
  43. On to the Work He Has Giv­en
  44. Once More I Must Tell the Old Sto­ry
  45. Praise Him, O Praise Ye Je­ho­vah
  46. Praise Him, Praise Him, Ren­der Heart­felt Hom­age
  47. Reapers Are We in the Har­vest
  48. Rejoice in Him Who Rules To­day
  49. Ripe the Har­vest Fields Are Wait­ing
  50. Saved by His Blood on We Go
  51. Shadows Drear Will Flee Away
  52. Shall You Hear Him Say at the Last Great Day
  53. Sing for Joy, As We Meet
  54. Sing His Praise Aloud, Glo­ri­fy His Name
  55. So Ma­ny Are the Themes
  56. Soldiers Strong Are Need­ed Now To­day
  57. Sometime the Mist Will Clear Above
  58. Tell Me More of Je­sus
  59. There’s a Bat­tle Go­ing on Today
  60. There’s a Beau­ti­ful Flow­er
  61. There’s a Way Up to Life
  62. Though the Foe Be Strong
  63. Time Is Here, The
  64. ’Tis a Blessed Thing to Hear
  65. To Grieve Over Past Sins Will Not Avail
  66. Walking and Talk­ing with Je­sus
  67. We Are Con­tent in the Beau­ti­ful Work
  68. We Are Pil­grims on Our Jou­rney
  69. We Are Sail­ing o’er Life’s Ocean
  70. We Are Sol­diers Press­ing on to Glo­ry Ev­er
  71. We Will Be Bu­sy Bees for Je­sus
  72. When Fond­est Hopes Like Au­tumn Leaves
  73. When Si­lent­ly the Night­shades Fall
  74. When the Ran­somed Get Home
  75. While the Days Are Go­ing By
  76. Who Would Not Turn to Je­sus?
  77. Will the Pear­ly Gates of Hea­ven
  78. With Trans­gress­ions All For­gi­ven
  79. World Is Full of Sun­shine, The

Music

  1. Abuela
  2. Abuelo
  3. After the Mid­night
  4. At the Roll Call Yon­der
  5. Be in Ear­nest
  6. Beautiful East­er
  7. Beckoning Lights of Home, The
  8. Christ Has Aris­en
  9. Christ Is Rea­dy to Wel­come
  10. Come to the Feast
  11. Crossing the Bar
  12. Fix Your Eyes on Je­sus
  13. Follow the Blood-Stained Way
  14. Go by the Way of the Cross
  15. Gone Is All My Debt of Sin
  16. Grace Has Done Won­ders
  17. Great Re­deem­er, The
  18. Happy Ev­ery Mo­ment
  19. He Is Call­ing Us to Work
  20. He Is Grow­ing More Pre­cious to Me
  21. He Is the Light
  22. Hear the Trum­pet
  23. High Ground, Low Ground
  24. Holy Twi­light Hour
  25. Home of the Soul
  26. I Am Sing­ing Glo­ry
  27. I Choose Je­sus
  28. I Love Him Best of All
  29. I Want to Meet You Up in Glo­ry
  30. If You Will
  31. I’m a Pil­grim
  32. In the Hol­low of His Hand
  33. In the Re­sur­rec­tion Morn­ing
  34. Jesus Be­lieves in You
  35. Jesus Is Vic­tor
  36. Jesus Paid It All
  37. Jewels for His Crown
  38. Join in Ex­ul­ta­tion
  39. Keep the News Roll­ing On
  40. Keep Your Heart-Bells Ring­ing
  41. Lift the Stan­dard To-day
  42. Light Will Soon Break Through, The
  43. Meet Me in Hea­ven
  44. No More Bur­dens I Bear
  45. O Do Some Good Deed Ev­ery Day
  46. O Wan­der­er, Come Home
  47. Only the Saved Soul Is Hap­py
  48. Orders from the King
  49. Reapers Are Need­ed
  50. Reapers for the Har­vest
  51. Ring Out the Mes­sage
  52. Sabbath Bells
  53. Sharon’s Rose
  54. Sing Away
  55. Smile
  56. Song of My Soul, The
  57. Song of Won­der­ful Love
  58. Take the Home-Path
  59. Then Will Come the Glo­ry
  60. ’Tis Har­vest Time
  61. Walk in the Light of God
  62. Way, the Truth and the Life, The
  63. What the Old World Needs
  64. Why Not You?
  65. Wilmore
  66. With Heart and Voice
  67. Work Must Go On, The

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