1869-1950
Sermons in Song

Au­gust 5, 1869, Bol­ton, Con­nec­ti­cut.

May 20, 1950, Ocean Grove, New Jer­sey.

Rest­land Me­mor­i­al Park, East Han­o­ver, New Jer­sey.

Grant C. Tullar (1869-1950)

Tullar was named af­ter the Amer­i­can pre­si­dent and vice-pre­si­dent, Ulys­ses S. Grant & Schuy­ler Col­fax. His fa­ther was un­a­ble to work, hav­ing been wound­ed in the Amer­i­can ci­vil war Bat­tle of An­tie­tam. So, af­ter Tul­lar’s mo­ther died when he was two years old, the fam­i­ly split up. Grant had no set­tled home af­ter that day un­til he be­came an adult.

As a child, he worked in a wool­en mill and as a shoe clerk, and re­ceived vir­tu­al­ly no ed­u­ca­tion or re­li­gious train­ing. He came to Christ at age 19 at a camp meet­ing near Wa­ter­bury, Con­nec­ti­cut. He then at­tend­ed the Hack­etts­town Acad­e­my in New Jersey. Or­dained a Meth­od­ist min­is­ter, he pas­tored for a short time in Do­ver, Del­a­ware, then be­came a full time evan­gel­ist. In 1893, he and Isaac Mer­e­dith found­ed the Tull­ar-Mer­e­dith mu­sic pub­lis­hing house in New York. His works in­clude:

  1. Angels’ Sweet Re­frain, The
  2. Beauty for Ashes
  3. First Christ­mas Song, The
  4. If Ye Then with Christ Be Ris­en
  5. I’ve Heard the King
  6. Joy Dis­pels Our Sor­row
  7. O Ho­ly Bi­ble
  8. Resurrection Morn So Fair
  9. Ring On, Ye Bells
  10. Smile and Sing
  11. Starless Crown, A
  12. Wake, Sweet­est Strain
  13. We Will Fol­low Je­sus
  14. Wonderful, Coun­se­lor!
  1. All the World for Je­sus
  2. Conqueror, The
  3. Face to Face with Christ, My Sav­ior
  4. Forward!
  5. He Did Not Die in Vain
  6. Keep Your Heart in Love with Je­sus
  7. Life Is a Friend­ly Road
  8. Lord of the Har­vest, The
  9. Manger-Babe, The
  10. Nailed to the Cross
  11. Our Best
  12. Over Beth­l’em’s Hill­side
  13. Raise the Song
  14. Ring On, Ye Bells
  15. Skies Will Soon Be Blue
  16. There’s a Beau­ti­ful Ci­ty
  17. Waking Out of Si­lence