1856–1927

Introduction

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Born: Ju­ly 23, 1856, Wil­liams­town, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Died: Jan­ua­ry 2, 1927, Zi­on City, Il­li­nois.

Buried: Mount Ol­iv­et Me­mo­ri­al Park, Zi­on, Il­li­nois.

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Biography

Orphaned at age 9, Graves was di­ag­nosed with epi­lep­sy when he was 14. At age 21, he moved to No­bles Coun­ty, Min­ne­so­ta, and for a while, it ap­peared his seiz­ures had stopped.

Grateful for hav­ing been healed, he be­gan to serve the Am­eri­can Sun­day School Un­ion. He stu­died the Bible and mu­sic in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, and North­field, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Upon re­turn to Min­ne­ap­olis and hear­ing ev­an­gel­ist John Al­ex­an­der Dow­ie, Graves ex­pe­ri­enced per­ma­nent heal­ing, which pro­vid­ed a back­drop for his Gos­pel songs.

Later, he moved to Zi­on Ci­ty, Il­li­nois, where he lived the rest of his life. All of his child­ren at­tend­ed the Cen­tral Bi­ble In­sti­tute in Spring­field, Mis­sou­ri. Graves him­self was or­dained an As­sem­blies of God min­is­ter in 1918.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Are You Rea­dy to Meet the Bride­groom?
  2. Beautiful Land Be­yond the Sky
  3. Behold! He Com­eth!
  4. Blessed Je­sus, Kind and Ten­der
  5. Brother, Are You Trou­bled in Your Heart To­day?
  6. Confidence
  7. Fed up­on the Fin­est of the Wheat
  8. From Je­ru­sa­lem to Je­ri­cho
  9. Hark, the Heav’n­ly Voic­es Sing
  10. He Was Nailed to the Cross for Me
  11. He Is Des­pised
  12. He Was Nailed to the Cross for Me
  13. Hear Ye the Mes­sage That Je­sus Has Giv­en
  14. He’ll Nev­er For­get to Keep Me
  15. Ho, Ev­ery­one That Thirst­eth
  16. Honey in the Rock
  17. How Much Is Our Life Like the Ocean
  18. Hungry, Lord, for Thy Word of Truth
  19. In Times When the Flesh Is So Weak and Frail
  20. It Is Just Like Him
  21. Jesus Is Keep­ing Me
  22. Lord, Thy Pi­ty­ing Eye Can See
  23. Lord, We Come with Morn­ing Songs
  24. Memories of Child­hood
  25. Morning Song
  26. Moved by Love
  27. My Fa­ther Has Ma­ny Dear Child­ren
  28. My Song in the Night
  29. O My Bro­ther, Do You Know the Sav­ior?
  30. Our Father in Hea­ven, in Our Weak­ness We Bow
  31. Power of God, The
  32. Rejoice, Re­joice, Re­joice for the Lord Is Com­ing
  33. Resting My Case
  34. Room for All
  35. There’s a Dear Old Home in the Val­ley
  36. They Came to That Ci­ty
  37. This World Is Just a Meet­ing Place
  38. Toiling All Night, but with No­thing to Show
  39. Wait on God
  40. When Ab­ra­ham and Sar­ah Had Pro­mised Them a Son
  41. When Out on Life’s Ocean
  42. Who Are In­vit­ed to the King­ly Feast
  43. Who’ll Go Rock­away, Bye­lo­land

Music

  1. Come Home
  2. Going Home to Glo­ry
  3. Lleida