1855–1930

Introduction

Born: Feb­ru­ary 17, 1855, Ware, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Died: Oc­to­ber 8, 1930, So­mer­ville, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Buried: Wy­om­ing Ce­me­te­ry, Mel­rose, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Biography

Blackmer mar­ried twice, to Jen­nie M. Bak­er (1881) and Do­ra Jo­se­phine Ro­by (1906).

A mem­ber of the Ad­vent­ist Church, he at­tend­ed the Wil­bra­ham Aca­de­my. When it came to mu­sic, though, he was large­ly self taught.

He wrote his first song at age 16, and ov­er 300 more dur­ing his life.

He lived most­ly in So­mer­ville, Mas­sa­chu­setts, and had a pi­ano­for­te business.

He di­rect­ed the choir at the Ad­vent Chris­tian Church in So­mer­ville, and was a song lead­er at the Al­ton Bay camp meet­ings in Lake Win­ni­pe­sau­kee, New Hamp­shire (1914–30).

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All Glo­ry to the Sav­ior’s Name
  2. All Praise to the Son for What He Has Done
  3. Angel Came Down to Be­thes­da’s Pool, An
  4. Are You Lone­ly and Worn and Sad?
  5. As a Chris­tian Band
  6. At Some Con­ven­ient Sea­son
  7. Be Faith­ful
  8. Bear the Cross for Je­sus
  9. Behold, What Love, What Bound­less Love
  10. Bless the Lord, Praise His Name, Hal­le­lu­jah
  11. Brother to a Feast In­vit­ed
  12. Christian, Are You Grow­ing Wea­ry?
  13. Christian Sol­dier, Worn with Ser­vice
  14. Come Over, Lost One
  15. Coming Again
  16. Crucified of Cal­va­ry Has Ta­ken All My Load, The
  17. Drifting on to Judg­ment
  18. Father, Now Hear Me Pray
  19. Glorious Scene, Those Three Ap­pall­ing
  20. Glory to Je­sus, He Saves Ev­en Me
  21. Great Day, The
  22. Hail, Bless­èd Babe!
  23. Hail, Thou Once Re­ject­ed Je­sus
  24. How Far to the Ci­ty of Gold?
  25. How Pre­cious the Thought
  26. I Came to the Sav­ior
  27. I Do Be­lieve the Bi­ble
  28. I Have Been Re­deemed from the Pow­er of Sin
  29. I Hear Thy Voice, O Lord
  30. I Know That Je­sus Saves Me
  31. I Shall See Him and Be Like Him
  32. I Will Bless the Lord For­ev­er­more
  33. I Will Build My House up­on the Rock
  34. I Will Not Shrink from Fie­ry Tri­als
  35. I Would Do Each Du­ty Here
  36. In Dark­ness I Wan­dered Till Je­sus I Found
  37. In That Coun­try Which Lies ov­er Jor­dan
  38. In the Dark and Cloudy Day
  39. It Is Sweet to Think of the Sav­ior’s Words
  40. Jesus Calls, Your Heart Would Win
  41. Jesus Is Call­ing Thee!
  42. Just Be­yond These Earth­ly Scenes
  43. Like Lot and His Kin­dred
  44. List to the Sen­try’s Call Who Goes There
  45. Little More Rough Toss­ing, A
  46. Look Away to Cal­va­ry
  47. Lord, in Thy Vine­yard as Help­ers Each Day
  48. Love of Christ Is Bound­less, The
  49. Mother’s Pray­ers
  50. My Cru­ci­fied Lord
  51. My Feet Are So Wea­ry with the March
  52. No Dy­ing There
  53. No Room for Je­sus
  54. Numberless as the Sands
  55. O Come to the Bless­ed Sav­ior
  56. O Pro­di­gal, Now Re­turn
  57. O Soul Op­pressed with Sin and Guilt
  58. O the Pro­mise, Bless­ed Pro­mise
  59. O the Pro­mise of the Bless­ed Word
  60. O What a Lov­ing Friend Have I
  61. O Where Are the Toil­ers for Je­sus To­day?
  62. O While the Mo­ments Lin­ger
  63. O Would You Share the Bless­ings?
  64. Oft When Tossed on Ocean’s Foam
  65. Oh, ’Tis Won­der­ful!
  66. On Sin’s Dark Mount­ain Ly­ing
  67. On the Sav­ior I’ve Be­lieved
  68. On Thy Jour­ney to the Home­land
  69. Once Again on the Old Camp Meet­ing Ground
  70. Once I Thought I Walked with Je­sus
  71. Once to the Lord, There Came a Trem­bling Soul
  72. Our God Shall Pour on Us
  73. Pilgrim Worn and Wea­ry, A
  74. Pilgrims in a Hos­tile Land
  75. Rejoice, Ye Sons of Men
  76. Save, Mas­ter, That We Per­ish Not
  77. Savior, Dear, I Have Heard of Thy Won­der­ful Word
  78. Savior Knocks, The
  79. Say, Is Your Lamp Burn­ing, My Bro­ther?
  80. See! A Sail Amid the Fear­ful Break­ers
  81. Seek the Lord, We In­vite You, Bro­ther
  82. Simply Trust­ing Christ, My Lord
  83. Swing Back for One Mo­ment, Fair Por­tals
  84. Tell Me the Old, Sweet Sto­ry of Je­sus
  85. There Are Me­mo­ries That Clus­ter in My Heart
  86. There Is a Coun­try Just Ov­er There
  87. There Is a Place Most Dear
  88. There Is No Work That I Can Do
  89. There’ll Be a Shout in the Camp Some Day
  90. There’s a Bet­ter World Than This
  91. There’s a Glad Song Well­ing Up With­in My Soul
  92. There’s a Path­way That Leads un­to Life
  93. There’s a Pro­mised Fu­ture
  94. There’s Nev­er a Day So Sun­ny
  95. They Cru­ci­fied My Bless­ed Lord
  96. This Is the Old Time Gos­pel
  97. Thou Dear Re­deem­er, Dy­ing Lamb
  98. Together They Are Grow­ing
  99. Unto Thy Fa­ther’s Dwell­ing
  100. Upon the Broad High­way, Bro­ther
  101. Upon the King’s High­way
  102. Wanderer, Je­sus Calls, O Hear His Voice
  103. Warfare Is Rag­ing ’Twixt Wrong and the Right, A
  104. We Are March­ing Along, Bound for Ca­naan
  105. We Shall Not All Sleep
  106. What Is That in Thine Hand?
  107. When I Was Far Away and Lost
  108. When Our Lord Was Here in the Ol­den Time
  109. When the Hosts Re­deemed to Zi­on Come
  110. When the Sav­ior in His Glo­ry Comes to Sit
  111. When the Ser­vants of God Have Been Called
  112. When We En­ter the Por­tals of Glo­ry
  113. While Here on the Earth as a Pil­grim
  114. Who Are Those Pil­grims?
  115. Why, in Dark­ness Grope
  116. Wondrous the Fa­vor of Christ to Me

Music

  1. Already Con­demned
  2. Eswatini
  3. How Far to the Ci­ty of Gold?
  4. Kitsap
  5. Lord Is There, The
  6. Los Ga­tos
  7. Nishak
  8. Repose
  9. Talladega
  10. Thy Com­ing Again

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Black­mer (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),