1865–1936

Introduction

portrait

Born: Feb­ru­ary 8, 1865, Yates Ci­ty, Il­li­nois.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 1, 1936, San­ta Bar­ba­ra, Ca­li­for­nia.

Buried: San­ta Bar­ba­ra Ce­me­te­ry, San­ta Bar­ba­ra, Ca­li­for­nia.

Pseudonyms

Biography

Lewis was the son of Lew­is Wes­ley Jones and Fran­ces A. Ta­ber, and hus­band of Lo­ra Wright.

He at­tend­ed the Moo­dy Bi­ble Ins­ti­tute in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, where he was a class­mate of ev­an­gel­ist Bil­ly Sun­day.

After gra­du­ation, he worked for the Young Men’s Chris­tian As­so­cia­tion (YMCA) in Da­ven­port, Io­wa; Fort Worth, Tex­as (1915); and San­ta Bar­ba­ra, Ca­li­for­nia (1925). Hymn writ­ing was his avo­ca­tion.

In ad­di­tion to the en­try giv­en be­low in the sourc­es, Finda­grave has an­oth­er en­try, in Al­too­na, Ala­ba­ma, for a Lew­is El­ling­ton Jones, which al­so claims to be the song writer. Des­pite be­ing carved in stone, the Ala­ba­ma grave site is in er­ror, based on this Oc­to­ber 1932 let­ter from Jones to Hal­dor Lil­le­nas:

In re­gard to the writ­ing of my songs, would say that a great ma­ny came from sen­tenc­es in a pas­tor’s ser­mons. Since I be­gan this work, I have al­ways been list­en­ing for some such in­spi­ra­tion. I re­mem­ber that Pow­er in the Blood was writ­ten dur­ing a camp meet­ing at Mount­ain Lake Park, Ma­ry­land.

My life has been un­ev­ent­ful. I was born in Il­li­nois, moved with my par­ents to Io­wa, where I lived on a farm un­til I was twen­ty-one. Then I went in­to bu­si­ness for a while. Even­tu­al­ly I en­tered Y.M.C.A. work.

Attended train­ing school in Chi­ca­go; Bil­ly Sun­day gra­du­at­ed from the same class. I was in Y.M.C.A. work for thir­ty-six years. I re­tired five years ago, and am now liv­ing in Ca­li­for­nia, where all bad wea­ther is unu­su­al.

Preacher’s Ma­ga­zine, Vol­ume 25, Number 1, Ja­nu­ary-Feb­ru­ary 1950, pp. 37–38

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All My Hopes Are Fixed
  2. Am I Pre­pared Each Day and Hour?
  3. Angels of Light with Their Pin­ions of Gold
  4. Are You Among the Num­ber?
  5. Are You Robed in Right­eous­ness?
  6. As Mul­ti­tudes Thronged the Dear Sav­ior One Day
  7. As the Lit­tle Dai­sy, White
  8. As We Jour­ney On­ward Through Life’s Steep and Rug­ged Way
  9. As You Jour­ney On­ward to a Home Above
  10. At the Door of Your Heart That Is Closed
  11. Beautiful Star
  12. Behold a Sav­ior Cru­ci­fied
  13. Blessed Pro­mise of the Mas­ter
  14. Burdened with a Load of Sin
  15. Come Home, Ye Wan­d’ring Ones, Come Home
  16. Come Hum­ble Sin­ner, Come To­day
  17. Come to Je­sus, Ye Lost Ones
  18. Dare to Stand Up for Je­sus
  19. Dear Lord, I Would Now as Thy Mes­sen­ger Go
  20. Do Not De­lay, There Is Work
  21. Down at the Cross I Found a Full Sal­va­tion
  22. Field Is Great, the Grain Is White, The
  23. From Wan­der­ing Long in Ways of Sin
  24. From Wil­der­ness Drea­ry We’ve Start­ed for Hea­ven
  25. Go Work Be­neath the Glow­ing Sun
  26. Gospel Ar­my, Quick­ly Ral­ly
  27. Happy and Free on This Glad Child­ren’s Day
  28. Have a Pur­pose as You Pass Along
  29. Have You Ac­cept­ed of Je­sus, the Lord?
  30. Have You Ev­er Thought of What the Lord Has Done?
  31. Have You Heard of Je­sus and His Won­drous Love?
  32. Have You Heard the In­vi­ta­tion to the Mar­riage?
  33. Have You Tak­en Je­sus for Your Friend and Guide?
  34. Hear the Gos­pel Call Good News
  35. Hear the Ma­ster’s Voice as He Speaks To­day
  36. Hear the Sweet New Song Aris­ing
  37. Hear the Sweet Voice of the Sav­ior
  38. Hear the Voice of the Won­der­ful Sav­ior
  39. Homeward Bound
  40. How Won­drous Is the Sav­ior’s Love
  41. I Am Kept from Ev­il’s Pow­er
  42. I Am on My Jour­ney to a Land So Fair
  43. I Am on My Jour­ney with the Sav­ior for My Guide
  44. I Am Prais­ing My Lord To­day
  45. I Am Trust­ing Je­sus On­ly
  46. I Am Walk­ing in the Path­way
  47. I Brought My Sins to Cal­va­ry
  48. I Came in Faith to Je­sus
  49. I Have a Roy­al Mes­sage from Christ
  50. I Have a Song I Love to Sing
  51. I Have Been Saved from the Pow­er of Sin
  52. I Have Found a Friend and Sav­ior
  53. I Have Found a Friend to Me So Dear
  54. I Have Found a Friend Un­fail­ing
  55. I Must Tell It
  56. I Will Haste Away to Je­sus
  57. I Will Have No Fear When the Foe Is Near
  58. I Would Ev­er Live for Je­sus
  59. I Would Sing of Je­sus and His Good­ness Day by Day
  60. I’m Glad That the Sav­ior Re­deemed Me
  61. I’m Re­deemed and Washed from Sin
  62. In His Like­ness
  63. In Per­fect Peace the Sav­ior’s Blood
  64. In Spring We Plow and Scat­ter Seed
  65. In the Bi­ble It Is Writ­ten
  66. In the Bless­ed Land of Ca­naan
  67. In the Ci­ty of the Skies
  68. In the Word ’Tis Writ­ten Christ Shall Come Again
  69. In Ways of Sin I Wan­dered Long
  70. It Will Not Be Long Till in the Sky
  71. I’ve a Friend So Dear to Me
  72. I’ve An­chored in Je­sus
  73. I’ve Been to Je­sus for a Heart Like Snow
  74. I’ve Been to Je­sus for the Pow­er
  75. I’ve Found a Rich Trea­sure in Je­sus My King
  76. Jesus Is My Sav­ior, I Am in His Care
  77. Jesus Is Ris­en, O Sing
  78. Jesus Loved Me So
  79. Jesus, Safe­ly Hide Me
  80. Jesus Shall My Pi­lot Be
  81. Jesus Sought Me While I Wan­dered
  82. Joyfully We Come, a Band of Child­ren
  83. Lay Up Your Trea­sures in Hea­ven Above
  84. Lean on His Arms
  85. Let the Whole Earth Praise the Lord
  86. Let Us Shout Ho­san­na to the Hea­ven­ly King
  87. Linger Not, the Sav­ior Calls Thee
  88. Lo the Roy­al Har­vest Rip­ens
  89. Look by Faith Be­yond
  90. Looking Out on Life’s Wide Ocean
  91. Make Me, Sav­ior, What Thou Wilt
  92. Many Are Stray­ing in Dark­ness and Sin
  93. Marching, March­ing, Je­sus Lead­ing On­ward
  94. Marching on to Zi­on
  95. May I Be Each Com­ing Day
  96. May We Abound with Cords
  97. My Bro­ther, There’s a Fount­ain
  98. My Feet Are on the High­way
  99. My Sins Are Like a Mount­ain
  100. My Sins Are Tak­en All Away
  101. Not by My Try­ing, nor Yet by My Tears
  102. O An­swer Now, on Which Side Do You Stand?
  103. O, Come to the Lord, at His Side
  104. O Gold­en Day of Pro­mise
  105. O Hear the Mes­sage, Glad and Sweet
  106. O How Ma­ny Are Out on Life’s Ocean?
  107. O Trou­bled Heart, No Long­er Sigh
  108. O, What a Won­der­ful Sto­ry
  109. Of Je­sus’ Love I’m Sing­ing
  110. Old Book Stands, The
  111. On the Way That Leads Above
  112. Once I Walked in the Ways of Sin
  113. Our God Is Walk­ing with Us All the Time
  114. Praise the Lord For­ev­er
  115. Praise the Lord, I Now Can Say
  116. Praise Ye the Lord, for Won­der­ful Is He
  117. Praises to Je­sus I’m Sing­ing
  118. Praises to Je­sus We Joy­ful­ly Sing
  119. Promise of God I Have Found in the Word, A
  120. Promises by Je­sus Giv­en, The
  121. Raven He Feed­eth, The
  122. Ring Out, Chim­ing Bells
  123. Rouse Ye for Ser­vice On­ward Chris­tian Sol­diers
  124. Savior Is Ten­der­ly Call­ing for Thee, The
  125. See the Fields of Wav­ing Grain
  126. Since Christ Hath Re­deemed Me and Giv­en Me Peace
  127. Since I Came to Je­sus and with Me He Doth Abide
  128. Since to Je­sus I Came and in Him I Be­lieved
  129. Since to My Heart He Came to Dwell
  130. Sinful, Dear Lord, Com­ing to Thee
  131. Soldiers of Christ
  132. Soldiers of Christ, Be Ye Stead­fast and Loy­al
  133. Spirit Is Call­ing, The
  134. Swell with Heart and Voice the Song
  135. Tell Abroad the Bless­ed Sto­ry
  136. Tell the Joy­ful News, Christ the Lord Is Born
  137. Temple of Our Lives Shall Stand, The
  138. There Are Days of Toil in the Sow­ing Time
  139. There Are Heights to Reach in the Ca­naan Land
  140. There Are Man­sions in the Home­land
  141. There Are Ma­ny Stray­ing from the Paths of Peace
  142. There Is Need of Val­iant Sol­diers in the Ar­my
  143. There Is Pow­er in the Blood
  144. There Will Come a Bless­ed Morn­ing
  145. There’ll Be a Ga­ther­ing by and By
  146. There’ll Be No Sha­dows
  147. There’s a Beau­ti­ful Home­land
  148. There’s a Pre­cious Fount­ain
  149. There’s an Op­en Fount­ain at the Cross
  150. This the Pro­mise God Has Giv­en
  151. Though the Tides Are Swell­ing
  152. Through Sha­dow or Dark­ness
  153. Throw Op­en the Gates of the Ci­ty
  154. To Mor­tal Ears, the Dear­est
  155. To Re­deem My Life from Bond­age
  156. To the Lord My Life Be­long­eth
  157. To the Mil­lions That Are Ly­ing
  158. To Thy Pre­cious, Bleed­ing Side
  159. Trusting in Je­sus, O Why Should I Fear!
  160. Under the Ban­ner of King Im­ma­nu­el
  161. Vessel Was Tossed by a Rag­ing Storm, A
  162. Walking and Talk­ing with Je­sus
  163. Wanderer in Ways of Sin
  164. We Are Dai­ly Draw­ing Near­er
  165. We Are Lit­tle Sol­diers
  166. We Are Look­ing for the Com­ing of the King
  167. We Are March­ing Along
  168. We Come, Dear Lord, in Faith to Thee
  169. We Have Heard Such Bless­ed News
  170. We Shall See the King Some Day
  171. We Would Sing of Je­sus and His Love
  172. When I Have Reached Earth’s Bor­der­land
  173. When Je­sus Calls for Wit­ness­es
  174. When My Up­ward Way Seems Rough and Steep
  175. When on Life’s Jour­ney I Wea­ry
  176. When the Ral­ly Call Is Sound­ing
  177. When the Saved Shall Meet on the Gold­en Street
  178. When the Sav­ior Shall As­sem­ble
  179. Where Will You Stand in the Judg­ment Day?
  180. Why Do You Wan­der in Dark­ness Away?
  181. Why Stand Ye Idle, My Bro­ther, To­day?
  182. Why Will You Wan­der, O Sin­ner?
  183. Wonderful Love, Sent the Sav­ior to Die
  184. Would You Be Free from the Guilt of Your Sin?
  185. Would You Be Free from Your Bur­den of Sin?
  186. Would You from Bur­dens and Sor­rows Be Free?
  187. Would You Live for Je­sus?
  188. Would You Ov­er­come in the Bat­tle Hour?
  189. You Must Be Re­deemed

Music

  1. All the Way Along
  2. Engels
  3. Tell the Joy­ful News
  4. Tempe
  5. Walking with Je­sus