(?–1986)

Introduction

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Yuletide Bells, Dorothy
Sumerau & Ira Wilson, 1925

Born: Cir­ca 1895.

Buried: West­ov­er Me­mo­ri­al Park, Au­gus­ta, Georg­ia.

Biography

Sumerau was Do­ro­thy’s mar­ried name.

She gra­du­at­ed from the Bap­tist In­sti­tute, Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia, in 1917.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All Who Are Wea­ry, O List to His Call
  2. Ashamed to Say That Je­sus
  3. Behold ’Tis He
  4. Blessed Are They Who in Spir­it Are Poor
  5. Bridegroom Comes, The
  6. Clap Your Hands
  7. Dark, Dark the Night
  8. Dear Sav­ior, Wash Away
  9. Dear Sav­ior, When Sa­tan
  10. Father in Hea­ven, I Long
  11. Good Shep­herd Know­eth, The
  12. Hark, the Mu­sic from the Hea­vens Steal­ing
  13. Hark to Jesus, Hark to the Giv­er of Glad­ness
  14. Hark to the Words He Speak­eth
  15. He That Con­fess­es Thy Name
  16. How Best to Serve My Lord
  17. How May I Know the Truths?
  18. I Am the Light, O Words Di­vine and Sweet
  19. I Will Talk with Jesus Ev­ery Day
  20. If I Would Shed a Ray
  21. In a Far Off Coun­try
  22. In God’s Gar­den, Day by Day
  23. In the Gar­den, Sad, For­sak­en
  24. In Thy Book, O Lord, in Thy Ho­ly Word
  25. Into Thy House, O Lord
  26. It Was for Me, up­on the Cross
  27. Jesus Calls for All Who Dare
  28. Jesus Said, Suf­fer the Child­ren to Come
  29. Jesus, the Sav­ior, Came from Glo­ry
  30. Jesus the Wa­ter of Life
  31. Let Not Your Hearts Be Trou­bled
  32. Long Earth Had Prayed
  33. Long Years Ago a Star
  34. Long Years Ago Men Did Not Know
  35. Long Years Ago the Blind
  36. Lord, as Thou Gav­est
  37. Lord, Can It Be That My Soul Will Be Clean?
  38. Lord, I Hear Thee Gent­ly
  39. Lord, in­to Thy Pre­sence
  40. Lord, Not Earth­ly Trea­sures
  41. Master and Sav­ior in Years Long Ago, The
  42. Master, Who Is Our Neigh­bor?
  43. My Best for Je­sus, My Lord
  44. My Lord, My God and Sav­ior
  45. My Sav­ior Hath Said That He Care­th for Me
  46. No Place for Thy Head
  47. O a Won­der­ful Mes­sage
  48. O Spread the Palms Be­fore
  49. O That Mine Eyes Could Have
  50. On a Hill in a Far Off Coun­try
  51. Once a Tiny Ba­by, Sweet
  52. Once in a Tem­ple They Found
  53. Only the Gift of a Lit­tle Thing
  54. Open Your Hearts to Re­ceive
  55. Our Fa­ther, Who in Hea­ven Art
  56. Out in the Wil­der­ness
  57. Prayer Is the Key of Hea­ven
  58. Savior, Help Us Put Away
  59. Search Ye the Scrip­tures
  60. Service That We Give, The
  61. Shepherds on the Dewy Hill­side
  62. Some Day, All Men
  63. Stars, You Are Twink­ling
  64. There Is No Oth­er Way
  65. They Came to Him from Ev­ery Land
  66. Thou Art the Christ
  67. Thou Didst Come Down
  68. Thou Didst Come to Bring
  69. Thy Tears Did Flow, Dear Son of God
  70. We Are Ev­er Build­ing Tem­ples
  71. We Can­not Tell What Hour
  72. What Makes the Dear Christ­mas
  73. What Shall It Pro­fit Ye?
  74. When the Ev­en­ing Sun
  75. When Thou Didst Walk Here
  76. Who Was It Said We Our Foes
  77. Who Will Come Forth?
  78. Who Will Still the Ang­ry
  79. Why Comes the Throng?
  80. Would Ye En­ter the King­dom?

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