1894–1988

Introduction

Born: No­vem­ber 7, 1894, John­ston Coun­ty, North Ca­ro­li­na.

Died: March 23, 1988, White­ville, North Ca­ro­li­na.

Buried: Maplewood Ce­me­te­ry, Wil­son, North Ca­ro­li­na.

Vida was the daugh­ter of Need­ham B. Mun­den and Vi­ola Wil­son, and wife of Jes­se Will­is Nix­on (mar­ried 1922, John­ston Coun­ty, North Ca­ro­lina).

Lyrics

  1. Along Be­side the Sea of Far Off Ga­li­lee
  2. Bring All the Lit­tle Child­ren in
  3. Child of Sor­row and of Woe
  4. Dear Fa­ther Up in Hea­ven Above
  5. Dear Friends Who Vi­sit Us
  6. Dear Lord, I Am Thine
  7. Drive Away You Night
  8. East Now Is Glow­ing, The
  9. Every Trial, Temp­ta­tion and Care
  10. Far from Shel­ter and from Fold
  11. Far Over the Mount­ain and Hill­top
  12. For Ev­ery Sun­day in the Year
  13. For Je­sus Christ the Blessed
  14. Go Out and Bring Some­bo­dy
  15. Go Out and Win the Poor
  16. God Be with Us as We Go
  17. God Bless Our Church
  18. He Was Pass­ing Away
  19. Hear the Hea­then Peo­ple
  20. Here Oft­en the Path­way of Sor­row We Tread
  21. I Am Seek­ing a Beau­ti­ful Ci­ty of Light
  22. I Have a Mo­ther, a Sweet Ten­der Mo­ther
  23. I Hear a Still Voice in the Ev­en­tide
  24. I Want to Get Clos­er to Je­sus
  25. I Will Nev­er Get Tired of Hea­ven
  26. Is the World Any Bright­er Around You?
  27. It Takes the Wind to Drive the Storm Clouds
  28. I’ve a Re­fuge in the Rock of Ag­es
  29. Jesus, Keep Me Near the Side
  30. Jesus, Lead Our Steps Along
  31. Jesus Loved the Lit­tle Child­ren
  32. Jesus Loves a Lit­tle Child
  33. Jesus Loves All the Child­ren
  34. Jesus Loves Me I Know
  35. Jesus, Make Me Pure With­in
  36. Jesus, the Sav­ior, Died
  37. Jesus Was Pure and Per­fect
  38. Little Child Can Sing, A
  39. Lonely Souls Are Wea­ry Wan­der­ing
  40. My Soul, Once Con­vict­ed, in Pri­son Hath Been
  41. Now I Tra­vel Up the High­way
  42. O Bro­ther, See How Sin Is Rag­ing
  43. Old Da­ni­el He Prayed
  44. On with the Cross We Are Go­ing
  45. Once I Was in Dark­ness Abid­ing
  46. Once I Was Lost and in Des­pair
  47. Once Noah Was Told in Days of Old
  48. Out in the Slums for the Sav­ior
  49. Reach Your Arms Around the World for Je­sus
  50. Ringing, Ring­ing, Mer­ry Bells
  51. Rose for Fa­ther, A
  52. Safe with the Sav­ior at Last
  53. Should All the Peo­ple Be
  54. Sinner, the Sav­ior Is Call­ing to Thee
  55. Slowly at Last Comes the Dawn­ing of Day
  56. So Close and Al­most at the Har­bor
  57. Softly the Sha­dows of Twi­light
  58. Sometimes When My Cross I Must Car­ry Alone
  59. Step by Step, Day by Day
  60. Step Out up­on the Word of Christ
  61. Sunlight, Sun­light, in My Soul
  62. There Is No Friend Here
  63. There’s a Great Day Com­ing
  64. There’s a Lit­tle Wheel Aturn­in’ in My Heart
  65. They Who Sow in Tear Shall Reap in Joy
  66. To the Work, to the Work
  67. Twinkle, Twin­kle Like a Star
  68. Up and Down the Old Hills of Ju­dea
  69. We Are Here, We Are Here
  70. We Are in the Ser­vice
  71. We Are Lit­tle Child­ren
  72. We Are Lit­tle Sol­diers
  73. Wending My Way to Realms Eter­nal
  74. When at Last I Shall Stand
  75. When Friends You’ve Loved Have Left
  76. When I Come to the Gates of the Ci­ty of God
  77. When I Heard the Old Cal­va­ry Sto­ry
  78. When Storm Clouds Rise
  79. When the Pearly Por­tals Op­en in the Sky
  80. When the Sun Goes Down in the West­ern Skies
  81. When the Tem­pest Rag­es
  82. When the Tem­pter in Sug­gest­ion Soft­ly Speaks to You
  83. When the Way Is Dark Be­fore You
  84. When the World in Its Cold­ness Re­fus­es
  85. When We Meet in the Af­ter Awhile
  86. When We’ve Tra­veled the Last Long Mile
  87. While Go­ing Along the Jour­ney of Life
  88. While Je­sus Is Ten­der­ly Plead­ing
  89. With the Bi­ble to Read
  90. Won’t It Be Grand to Be in Glo­ry?
  91. Work for the Lord and Mas­ter

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