Hall grad­u­at­ed with hon­ors from the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia; he lat­er re­ceived an hon­or­a­ry Doc­tor of Mu­sic de­gree from Har­ri­man Un­i­ver­si­ty. He wrote can­ta­tas, or­a­tor­i­os, choir an­thems, and hun­dreds of Gos­pel songs, and ed­it­ed sev­er­al hym­nals. He was ap­par­ent­ly an ex­cep­tion­al song lead­er and chor­al con­duct­or, and, with Ir­vin Mack, founded the Hall-Mack Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny (lat­er bought by the Ro­de­heav­er Com­pa­ny). Hall said once that the tune for Does Je­sus Care? was his most in­spired piece of mu­sic. He was a mem­ber of the 7th Street Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church in Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia. His works in­clude:

• Boundless Love (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1896)
• Songs of Sov­er­eign Grace, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick & Win­field Weed­en (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1897)
• New Songs of the Gos­pel, with Aus­tin Miles (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1900)
• The Ser­vice of Praise, with Ir­vin Mack et al. (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1900)
• The Trib­ute of Song, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1904)

• Hall, pp. 389-91
• Hustad, p. 250

1. At the Cross
2. Beautiful Christ­mas
3. Cares and Toils of Life May Come, The
4. Ever Sing­ing
5. Guide Me, Sav­ior
6. Have Thine Own Way
7. Higher Life, A
8. I Am Rea­dy for Ser­vice
9. I Have Joy and Glo­ry and My Heart Is Light
10. I Need the Pow­er of Pen­te­cost
11. It’s On­ly Go­ing Home
12. I’ve Been Doubt­ing, Bless­ed Savi­or
13. Jesus, My Sav­ior, Left Hea­ven Above
14. Jesus Saves
15. Listen to the Mas­ter’s Plead­ing
16. Lord, Thou Know­est All My Need
17. Message of Christ­mas Time
18. My All Is on the Al­tar
19. My Life, O Lord, to Thee I Now Sur­ren­der
20. O Bless­ed Lord, to Thee I’m Com­ing
21. O Je­sus, My Sav­ior
22. Oft I Steal Out in the Twi­light
23. Ripe Is the Har­vest
24. Room for Me in Pas­tures
25. Sitting at the Feet of Je­sus
26. Some Day I Shall Be Like Him
27. Speak a Good Word for Je­sus
28. There Is Rest at the Cross
29. There’s a Friend We Love
30. Though Dark the Path May Some­times Seem
31. Though the Skies Are Gray All Along Your Way
32. We Are Drift­ing o’er to the Gold­en Shore
33. When I View the Open Foun­tain
34. Why Stand Ye Here Idle?
35. Witness of the Spir­it, The

1. Angels’ Cho­rus, The
2. Aotearoa
3. At Beth­le­hem
4. Awake and Sing
5. Beaming Bright
6. Beautiful Christ­mas Tide
7. Beautiful Eas­ter­tide
8. Beautiful Lil­ies
9. Beautiful Sto­ry
10. Bells, The
11. Bréguet
12. Does Je­sus Care?
13. Clifton
14. Easter Bells, The
15. Fairest Flow­er, The
16. For God So Loved the World
17. Hallelujah, Hal­le­lu­jah
18. He Is Mine
19. Hear the Hap­py Voic­es Ring­ing
20. Hear the Mer­ry Laugh­ter
21. Jesus Reigns
22. Lift Up Your Voic­es
23. Light from the Tomb
24. Lompoc
25. Mankato
26. March On!
27. Merrily, Cheer­i­ly
28. Message of the Bells, The
29. Mine, Still Mine
30. No More Shall We Say Good­bye
31. Oh Be Rea­dy!
32. On Eas­tern Plain Re­clin­ing
33. Redemption
34. Roses Are Bloom­ing
35. See the Ar­my
36. Send Out the Tid­ings
37. Shepherds, The
38. Shout! Shout for Joy
39. Smiling Flow­ers, The
40. Song of the Shep­herds
41. Star of the East
42. Sweet Smil­ing Rose
43. Tell of Love
44. Twine Your Blos­soms
45. Ye Hap­py Bells