1856–1932

Introduction

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Born: Au­gust 18, 1856, Wil­ton, Io­wa.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 15, 1932, Los An­ge­les, Ca­li­for­nia, at the home of his son Charles Jr.

Buried: Cha­pel of the Pines Cre­ma­to­ry, Los An­ge­les, Ca­li­for­nia.

Pseudonyms:

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* A 1935 co­py­right rec­ord for the song Go, Tell Them credi­ts the words to Good­speed, and re­gis­ters the co­py­right to Charles H. Ga­br­iel, Jr., as child of the de­ceased au­thor. How­ev­er, oth­er co­py­right rec­ords list Good­speed’s place of re­si­dence as Hen­nes­sey, Ok­la­ho­ma. More in­for­ma­tion is needed to re­solve this dis­crep­an­cy.

Biography

Charles was the son of Is­aac New­ton Gab­ri­el and Cleo­pa­tra Cot­ton, and fa­ther of Charles Hut­chin­son Ga­bri­el, Jr., and Ve­ra G. Ga­bri­el. He mar­ried twice, to Fran­cil­la I. Wood­house Cool­ing (1876) and Ame­lia Moore (1889).

Growing up on an Io­wa farm, he taught him­self to play the fa­mi­ly’s reed or­gan. He be­gan teach­ing in sing­ing schools by age 16, and be­came a well known teach­er and com­pos­er.

He served as mu­sic di­rect­or at Grace Me­tho­dist Epis­co­pal Church, San Fran­cis­co, Ca­li­for­nia (1890–92), then moved to Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois. In 1912, he be­gan work­ing with Ho­mer Ro­de­hea­ver’s pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny.

Gabriel ed­it­ed some 43 song books, 7 men’s chor­us books, 19 an­them col­lect­ions, and 23 can­ta­tas. He was in­duct­ed in­to the Gos­pel Music Hall of Fame in 1982.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Abide with Me
  2. All Hail, Thou Son of Da­vid!
  3. Armies of God, The
  4. All Things Are Rea­dy
  5. Are You Rea­dy?
  6. Awakening Chor­us
  7. Behold How the Fields Are Wav­ing
  8. Beside Blue Ga­li­lee
  9. Calling the Pro­di­gal
  10. Cause Is Right, The
  11. Cling to the Faith of Our Fa­thers
  12. Crown Laid Up for Me, A
  13. Divine Love
  14. Easter Bells
  15. Glad Tid­ings
  16. Go Tell the Sto­ry
  17. Great Glad Day, The
  18. Growing Dear­er Each Day
  19. Harvest Song
  20. He Is So Pre­cious to Me
  21. He Leads Me Still
  22. Hear the Sweet Voice
  23. Hide Me, Oh, My Sav­ior!
  24. His Grace Is Suf­fi­cient for Me
  25. Hold Up the Grand Old Bi­ble
  26. I Can­not Tell How Pre­cious
  27. I Nev­er Will Cease to Love Him
  28. I Stand Am­azed in the Pre­sence
  29. I Want to Be More Like Je­sus
  30. I Will Not For­get Thee
  31. Jesus, Bless­èd Je­sus
  32. Keep Your Heart Sing­ing
  33. Let the Lit­tle Child­ren Come
  34. Marching in His Name
  35. More Abun­dant­ly
  36. More Like the Mas­ter
  37. More Than a Friend to Me
  38. Morning Will Come
  39. My Cleans­ing
  40. Slighted Stran­ger, The
  41. O That Will Be Glo­ry
  42. Oh, It Is Won­der­ful
  43. On to the Front!
  44. Over in the Glo­ry-Land
  45. Pentecostal Pow­er
  46. Praise His Name
  47. Praise His Name For­ev­er
  48. Reapers Are Need­ed
  49. Receive My Cry
  50. Rejoice! Re­joice!
  51. Safest Way, The
  52. Sail On!
  53. Secret Pray­er
  54. Send the Light
  55. Send the News
  56. Some Glad Morn­ing
  57. Song of Old, The
  58. Song of Vic­to­ry, A
  59. Story Nev­er Old, The
  60. Stranger, The
  61. Sunshine and Rain
  62. There’ll Be Mu­sic in Hea­ven
  63. To the Har­vest Field
  64. We Shall Be Like Him
  65. We’ll Shout and Sing
  66. What a Friend Is Je­sus
  67. What a Sav­ior!
  68. What About You?
  69. What Will It Be?
  70. When I Go Home
  71. When We Get Home
  72. Where the Cross Is Lead­ing
  73. Wonderful Sto­ry, The

Music

  1. Adowa
  2. All Hail to Thee, Im­ma­nu­el!
  3. All-in-All, The
  4. Americus
  5. Angels from Hea­ven
  6. Anniversary Day
  7. Are You Rea­dy for the Com­ing?
  8. Are You Win­ning Souls?
  9. Arles
  10. Ashford
  11. Aspinwall
  12. As a Vol­un­teer
  13. Avondale
  14. Banner of the Cross, The
  15. Be a Gold­en Sun­beam
  16. Be Not Afraid
  17. Be with Us Still
  18. Beautiful Sun­shine
  19. Because I Love Je­sus
  20. Bethlehem’s Star
  21. Birdstown
  22. Blood of the Cru­ci­fied One, The
  23. Book My Mo­ther Read, The
  24. Brazoria
  25. Breath of the Spir­it, The
  26. Brighten the Cor­ner Where You Are
  27. Call of the Christ, The
  28. Calling Thee
  29. Carry Your Cross with a Smile
  30. Chiang Mai
  31. Children’s Pray­er, The
  32. Chios
  33. Choosing the Hill Coun­try
  34. Christ in Me, the Hope of Glo­ry
  35. Christ Shall Be King
  36. Christian En­dea­vor
  37. Church of God, Awake!
  38. Clujnapoca
  39. Comfort
  40. Coming Home to Thee
  41. Countless Mer­cies
  42. Cuyahoga
  43. Dare to Do Right
  44. Dear Lit­tle Stran­ger
  45. Deborah
  46. Destin
  47. Don’t For­get to Pray
  48. Easter Bells Are Peal­ing
  49. Erskine
  50. Evening Pray­er, An
  51. Faith, Hope and Love
  52. Fields Are White, The
  53. Florissant
  54. Follow in His Foot­steps
  55. Following Je­sus
  56. Forevermore
  57. Freely, Free­ly, Free­ly
  58. Friendship of Je­sus, The
  59. Gabriel
  60. Gad
  61. Gather the Grain
  62. Get Right with God
  63. Give of Your Sun­shine
  64. Glory to God
  65. Go Forth
  66. Go to the Deeps of God’s Pro­mise
  67. Good Shep­herd, The
  68. Guide Me
  69. Hanford
  70. Hasten, Loy­al Mor­tals
  71. He Is Mine, I Am His
  72. He Is Wait­ing for Your An­swer
  73. He Lead­eth Me
  74. He Pro­mised to Keep Me
  75. He Sup­pli­eth All of My Need
  76. Heavenly Stran­ger, The
  77. Heavenly Vi­sion, The
  78. He’ll Walk with Me All the Way
  79. Help Some­bo­dy To­day
  80. Here Am I, Send Me
  81. Hiding in the Rock
  82. Higher Ground
  83. His Eye Is on the Spar­row
  84. His Word En­dur­eth
  85. Hoffman
  86. Hold Fast
  87. Hold Up the Grand Old Bi­ble
  88. Holy Sab­bath
  89. Hormozgan
  90. Hosanna! Ho­san­na!
  91. Homeward Bound
  92. How Can I Serve Thee Best?
  93. Huelva
  94. I Come to Thee
  95. I Need Je­sus
  96. I Would Be a Lit­tle Sun­beam
  97. I Would Be Like Thee
  98. If Je­sus Should Come
  99. If You Will
  100. I’ll Be a Voice
  101. In Lov­ing-Kind­ness Je­sus Came
  102. In Thy Ho­ly Keep­ing
  103. It Is Je­sus
  104. It Nev­er Shall Pass Away
  105. Jefferson Ci­ty
  106. Jesus Loves Us
  107. Jesus Passed Through Je­ri­cho
  108. Jesus, Rose of Shar­on
  109. Jesus, the Help­er
  110. Jesus Will Be Yours
  111. Joy-Bells
  112. Just a Lit­tle
  113. Just as He Pro­mised to Do
  114. Just Ask Him in to Stay
  115. Kathrine
  116. Kawaiaha‘o
  117. Keep on Be­liev­ing
  118. Kermanshah
  119. Kiawah
  120. Kindly Light Is Lead­ing, The
  121. Knowhead
  122. Land of the Un­set­ting Sun
  123. Lansing
  124. Led by the Star
  125. Less of Self and More of Je­sus
  126. Let the Joy Ov­er­flow
  127. Let the Sun­shine In
  128. Like Dews of the Morn­ing
  129. Linderhof
  130. Little Christ Asleep, The
  131. Little Hu­man Kin­dness, A
  132. Little Sol­diers
  133. Little Sun­beams
  134. Little While to Wait, A
  135. Lo! I Am with You
  136. Look in the Bi­ble
  137. Lord, Is It I?
  138. Lost in Sight of the Har­bor
  139. Love Led Him to Cal­va­ry
  140. Loyal and True
  141. Loyalty un­to Christ
  142. Lucile
  143. Make Him Known
  144. Make Some­bo­dy Hap­py To­day
  145. Marching Up the Nar­row Way
  146. Matchless Love
  147. Mato Gros­so
  148. Melilla
  149. Message of Glad­ness, The
  150. Miami
  151. Mighty Vic­tor, A
  152. Mother and the Book of God
  153. Music of the Soul, The
  154. My Fa­ther Knows My Need
  155. My Fa­ther Leads Me
  156. My Fa­ther Watch­es ov­er Me
  157. My Friend and Sav­ior
  158. My On­ly Plea
  159. Não Tardará a Vo­lta do Sen­hor
  160. Neuschwanstein
  161. Nilus
  162. Nims Lake
  163. No More to Say Good­bye
  164. No Oth­er Sto­ry
  165. Nobody Like Je­sus
  166. Nobody Told Me of Je­sus
  167. Nova Sco­tia
  168. Now Is the Ac­cept­ed Time
  169. Nummela
  170. O Land of God
  171. O Lit­tle Babe of Beth­le­hem
  172. O Love of Christ
  173. O’er the Hills of Old Ju­dea
  174. Oh, for a Clean Heart
  175. Only in Thee
  176. Onward, Ev­er On­ward!
  177. Ordu
  178. Others
  179. Our Gifts to Je­sus
  180. Our Hea­ven­ly Shep­herd
  181. Our Land for Christ
  182. Our Watch­word
  183. Over All
  184. Over and Ov­er Again (Arm­strong)
  185. Over and Ov­er Again (Grein­er)
  186. Peace, Be Still
  187. Pentecostal Pow­er
  188. Posadas
  189. Power of the Ho­ly Ghost, The
  190. Pozzuoli
  191. Praise His Name
  192. Pray, Pray
  193. Prayer for Ev­en­tide, A
  194. Pressly
  195. Precious to Me
  196. Rainbow on the Cloud, A
  197. Records
  198. Reflect the Christ
  199. Roanoke
  200. Santa Mo­ni­ca
  201. Sarah
  202. Schaffhausen
  203. Send the Pow­er Again
  204. Since Je­sus Came in­to My Heart
  205. Sing Away the Sha­dows
  206. Singing, Speak­ing, Pray­ing
  207. Sinner Made Whole, A
  208. Sinner Saved by Grace, A
  209. Some Bright Morn­ing
  210. Some Day
  211. Somebody Needs You
  212. Someone Is Look­ing to You
  213. Something to Be Done
  214. Song and the Star, The
  215. Spokane
  216. Still Small Voice, The
  217. Still Un­de­cid­ed
  218. Sunlight All the Way
  219. Sunshine on the Hill
  220. Sweeten Your Deeds with Love
  221. Tacoma
  222. Take Wings to Thy Soul
  223. Tell It To­day
  224. That’s Enough for Me (Mar­tin)
  225. There Is a Lamp Whose Stea­dy Light
  226. There Is Glo­ry in My Soul
  227. There Is No To­mor­row
  228. There Is Shel­ter at the Cross
  229. They Are All There
  230. Thy Bound­less Love
  231. Thy King­dom Come
  232. Under the Cross of Je­sus
  233. Unto Us
  234. Up and On­ward
  235. Volunteers for Ser­vice
  236. Walking and Talk­ing with Je­sus
  237. Watching for the Morn­ing
  238. Wave the Ban­ners
  239. Way of the Cross
  240. We Are Lit­tle Sol­diers
  241. We Thank Thee, Our Fa­ther
  242. Wear a Smile for Je­sus
  243. What a Change
  244. When I Go Home
  245. When I Look in His Face
  246. When I Shall Fall Asleep
  247. When We Wak­en in the Morn­ing
  248. Where the Gates Swing Out­ward Nev­er
  249. Whom Hav­ing Not Seen, I Love
  250. Why Do I Love Je­sus?
  251. Will the Cir­cle Be Un­bro­ken?
  252. Win Them One by One
  253. Wonderful Christ­mas Sto­ry, The
  254. Wonderful Je­sus, The
  255. Wonderful Sav­ior, The
  256. Xinjiang