1862–1934

Introduction

Born: No­vem­ber 27, 1862, Bloom­field, Io­wa (birth name: Sa­rah Ad­di­son Pol­lard).

Died: De­cem­ber 20, 1934, New York Ci­ty.

Buried: Elm­wood Ce­me­te­ry, Fort Ma­di­son, Io­wa.

Biography

Author of ov­er 100 hymns and Gos­pel songs, Poll­ard was edu­cat­ed in Den­mark, Io­wa; Val­pa­rai­so, In­di­ana; at the Bos­ton School of Ora­to­ry; and the Moo­dy Bi­ble In­stitute, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois.

She taught in Chi­ca­go, and at the Chris­tian and Mis­sion­ary Al­li­ance Train­ing School in New York.

She worked for a while with ev­an­gel­ist John Al­ex­an­der Dow­ie, and al­so in Af­ri­ca, leav­ing for Scot­land af­ter World War I be­gan. She lat­er re­turned to New York.

As sev­en­ty-two year old Miss Ade­laide was en­route from her New York Ci­ty home to a New Jer­sey town dur­ing the Chris­tmas Ho­li­days in 1934 where she was to hold some re­li­gious meet­ings, she be­came cri­tic­al­ly ill in the New York Ci­ty rail­road sta­tion.

She was rushed to a near­by Y.W.C.A. home where she died short­ly there­af­ter, death be­ing at­trib­ut­ed to a rup­tured ap­pen­dix.

Emurian, pp. 36–40

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Account Me Wor­thy, Lord, I Pray
  2. Baptize Me with the Spir­it
  3. Before the Sav­ior’s Judg­ment Seat His Ran­somed Ser­vants
  4. Day Is Break­ing, Chris­tian, The
  5. Fear Not, O Li­ttle Flock
  6. Have Thine Own Way, Lord
  7. Heavy Heart­ed Sin­ner
  8. How It Thrills Our Hearts with Ra­pture
  9. I Am Sa­tis­fied with Je­sus Ev­ery Day
  10. I Can­not See Be­yond the Mo­ment
  11. I Would Not Have Thee Come, Dear Lord
  12. If She Could Speak to Thee Out of the Glo­ry
  13. Isr’l, Isr’l, Loved of Je­ho­vah
  14. Isr’l, Je­ho­vah Loves Thee with an Ev­er­last­ing Love
  15. Jesus Knows All, All Your Sor­row
  16. Light Has Been Giv­en
  17. Lord, I Am Lis­ten­ing, Guid­ed by Thy Spir­it
  18. No One Can Help You but Je­sus
  19. No Pain nor Sor­row in That New Land
  20. No Room, Alas, for a Sav­ior Here
  21. O if We Knew the Lord Would Come To­night
  22. O Wan­der­er, Re­joice, Re­joice
  23. O Wan­der­ing One, Why Long­er Roam?
  24. Savior ’Tis a Full Sur­ren­der
  25. Shepherd of Is­ra­el
  26. Since I Have Op­ened Wide the Door
  27. Spirit Sa­ith To­day, The
  28. Surrendered to Je­sus, For­ev­er and Ev­er
  29. Tell the Joy­ful News to the Wan­der­er
  30. There Are Ma­ny Fierce Temp­ta­tions
  31. Thy Will, O Lord, Be Done Ful­ly in Me
  32. Way Is Dark, O Je­sus, The
  33. Within the Per­fect Will of God

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Poll­ard (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),