I 4 F-J,L° u<:}ir V £^55°. CcmrpAlCo. ‘JPW $* t% i js THE STORY OF THE JUBILEE SINGERS INCLUDING THEIR SONGS BY J. B. T. MARSH WITH SUPPLEMENT CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF TIIEIR SIX YEARS’ TOUR AROUND THE WORLD, AND MANY NEW SONGS BY F. J. LOUDIN NEW EDITION * l ft V * LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27, PATERNOSTER ROW 1898 3 ; 556 ,r\3j- (,/$//£ Printed by Hazell , Watson, & Viney, Ld„ London and Aylesbury. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. FAGE THE YEAR OF JUBILEE .1 CHAPTER II. THE FORLORN HOPE 8 CHAPTER III. ADRIFT ON STORMY SEAS 1 6 CHAPTER IV. LIGHT IN THE EAST . • 24 CPIAPTER V. SUCCESS AT LAST 33 CHAPTER VI. THE SECOND CAMPAIGN ....... JO CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST VISIT TO LONDON 4^ VI CONTENTS. CHAPTER VIII. PAGE A BUSY WINTER IN GREAT BRITAIN .... 62 CHAPTER IX. OVER THE OCEAN AGAIN . . . , • 75 CHAPTER X. EIGHT MONTHS IN GERMANY 90 CPIAPTER XI. PERSONAL HISTORIES OF THE SINGERS . . *101 SUPPLEMENT. CHAPTER I. THE NEW MANAGEMENT 1 23 CHAPTER II. BOUND FOR THE ANTIPODES 134 CHAPTER III. IN AUSTRALASIA 138 CHAPTER IV. FROM AUSTRALASIA TO THE ORIENT . . . 1 43 CHAPTER V. IN JAPAN 150 THE JUBILEE SONGS 159 NOTE. Trus volume is in part an abridgment of the two J ubilee Histories which were written by the Rev. G. D. Pike, and which have had a wide circulation, one giving an account of the first campaign in America, and the other of the first visit to Great Britain. But the interval between these two narra- tives is here bridged over, and the story is brought down to the return of the Jubilee Singers from Germany. The personal histories have been more fully writ- ten out, and a large number of new songs have been added, including several of the most popular pieces ever given in the Jubilee concerts. J. B. T. M. 18 9 2 . Fisk University disbanded the company on its return from Europe in 1878, and since then has had no connection with it. The note by J. B. T. M. was written in 1879, when the Singers organized themselves into a joint stock company. They continued as such for nearly two years. In the Autumn of 1882, a reorganization was effected ; an account of which, and their subsequent six years’ tour around the world, is given in the Supplement. There has also been added many new and beau- tiful songs. F. J. E, Ravenna, Ohio, \ FISK UNIVERSITY’S GREAT NECESSITY. Fisk University is emphatically a Missionary Institution. The people in whose interest it has been founded were, six- teen years ago, slaves. The most of the students are depend- ent upon themselves, and must earn their own support while securing their education. The colleges of no section of our country rely upon their students, even though wealthy, for the salaries of professors. Colleges and Theological Semi- naries must be endowed, or raise the larger part of their annual expenses by constant appeals to the liberality of their friends. The current expenses of Fisk University have, thus far, been principally met by the American Missionary Associa- tion, but with the hope that the success of its work would create for it friends who would gladly endow it. The insti- tution is most favorably located with respect to healthfulness of climate, accessibility, and surrounding influences. Nash- ville is very properly called the Athens of the South, because of the number and importance of its educational establish- ments. Fisk University has a successful history of fifteen years of work and growth. It has its beautiful site of twenty-five acres and Jubilee Hall ; Livingstone Missionary Hall is being- erected, and now it needs adequate endowment. We present, to all who have money and wish to use it in the interest of humanity, this opportunity of investing money in a perma- nent form, to do a noble work in behalf of Christian educa- tion for the centuries to come. We invite all who desire to help Fisk University, to come, if possible, and see its work for themselves. The magnitude of the interests centred in such an institu- tion cannot be overestimated in their relations to the wel- fare of our own country. To the millions of recently emanci- pated colored people of the South must be given a Christian education, or the nation must suffer far more in the future than in the past from the curse of slavery. E. M. CRAVATH, Nashville, Term., October, 1880. President CHAPTER I. THE YEAR OF JUBILEE. The story of the Jubilee Singers seems almost as little like a chapter from real life as the legend of the daring Argonauts who sailed with Jason on that famous voyage after the Golden Fleece. It is the story of a little company of emancipated slaves who set out to secure, by their singing, the fabulous sum of $20,000 for the impoverished and unknown school in which they were students. The world was as un- familiar to these untravelled freed people as were the countries through which the Argonauts had to pass ; the social prejudices that confronted them were as terrible to meet as fire-breathing bulls or the war- riors that sprang from the land sown with dragons’ teeth ; and no seas were ever more tempestuous than the stormy experiences that for a time tested their faith and courage. They were at times without the money to buy needed clothing. Yet in less than three years they 2 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. returned, bringing back with them nearly one hun- dred thousand dollars. They had been turned away from hotels, and driven out of railway waiting-rooms, because of their color. But they had been received with honor by the President of the United States, they had sung their slave-songs before the Queen of Great Britain, and they had gathered as invited guests about the breakfast-table of her Prime Min- ister. Their success was as remarkable as their mis- sion was unique. The civil war which broke out in the United States, 1 86 1, was avowedly waged, on one side to overthrow the Union of the States, and on the other to preserve it. But back of this object it was really a war, on one side to perpetuate slavery, and on the other to abolish it. The South understood this from the start. So did those at the North who were wise to read the signs of the times, and especially those who had the spiritual instinct to interpret the mean- ing of God’s providences. The anti-slavery reformers, who had sought, through the peaceful agencies of the press, the pul- pit, and the platform, to secure the abolition of slavery, went into the war with an ardor they never could have felt in the struggle of a slave-holding nation for mere political existence. No young men responded to the call for troops more heartily than those whose boyhood homes had been stations on the Underground Railway — that unique line whose stock was never offered in market ; whose trains ran only by night ; whose tracks were country by-roads; whose coaches were plain farm wagons ; whose pas- THE CONTRABANDS. 3 sengers were fugitive slaves ; whose terminus was the free soil of Canada. The first detachment of Union troops that passed through Baltimore on its way to Washington made the streets of that sullen city ring with a song in honor of old John Brown, the abolitionist of Harper’s Ferry. And regiment after regiment of volunteers, the pride and flower of half a million Northern homes, “rallied round the flag, shouting the battle-cry of freedom.” The slaves, too, utterly ignorant as they were of common political issues and the proportions of the struggle, almost everywhere and at once read the significance of the great conflict. Tidings of every turn in the fortunes of war passed from cabin to cabin by some mysterious telegraphy, and every Union victory was the signal for secret thanksgiving services. It was the natural result that the camps of the Union army should at once become cities of refuge for fugitive slaves. A New England general, who had been in close political alliance with the slave power until it raised its hand to strike down the Union, gave them a name and a recognized standing in the military lines as “ contraband of war.” And by and by there came from the good President who had so patiently bided the time, the proclamation that made the army, in the aim as well as the inci- dent of its work, an army of emancipation. Its advance was the signal for a rally of slaves from all the country round to follow it, they knew not whither, save that it was to freedom. They flocked in upon the line of march by bridle-paths and across the fields ; old men on crutches, babies 4 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. on their mothers’ backs; women wearing the cast-off blue jackets of Yankee cavalry-men, boys in abbre- viated trousers of rebel gray; sometimes lugging a bundle of household goods snatched from their cabins as they fled, sometimes riding an old mule “ borrowed” from “ mas’r,” but oftener altogether empty-handed, with nothing whatever to show for their life-time of unrewarded toil. But they were free ; and with what swinging of ragged hats, and tumult of rejoicing hearts and fervent “ God bless you’s,” they greeted their deliverers ! “ The year of jubilee,” of which they had sung and for which they had prayed and waited so many years, had come at last ! By this violent emancipation of war — so different in its process from the peaceful abolition for which the friends of the slave had been so long looking and laboring — over four millions of bondmen were suddenly made free. They were homeless, penni- less, ignorant, improvident — unprepared in every way for the dangers as well as the duties of free- dom. Self-reliance they had never had the oppor- tunity to learn, and, suddenly left to shift for them- selves, they were at the mercy of the knaves who were everywhere so ready to cheat them out of their honest earnings. They had been kept all their lives in a school of immorality, and even church member- ship was no evidence that one was not a thief, a liar, or a libertine. Their former masters were so im- poverished by their emancipation, along with the other costs of the war, that they had little ability — and were so exasperated by it that they had usually still less disposition — to help them. HUNGER FOR THE SPELLING BOOK. § The task of giving these freed slaves a Christian education was laid mainly, therefore, upon the Christian people of the North. It was a missionary work of such magnitude and character as no people was ever called to take up before. Schools were started — even before the close of the first six months of the war — in little cabins, in army tents, in unfloored log chapels, in abandoned slave marts, under the open sky. Hundreds of Northern ladies, many of them from homes of luxury and culture, came to teach these degraded people the A B Cs of the spelling-book and of Christian citizenship. The work was full of discomforts, difficulties, and danger. By the varying fortunes of war the schools were often broken up, and the teachers forced to seek safety for their lives in flight. Overworked, unable sometimes to obtain suitable food, shelter, or medical attendance, many of these brave women laid down their lives in the cause, as truly as a soldier who is buried on the field of battle. Even after the war they were shunned as lepers in Southern so- ciety, and more than one teacher was assassinated by the Ku Klux banditti for refusing to obey their anonymous warnings to give up the work and leave the State. But their mission was not without its brighter side. God’s Spirit was often present with convert- ing power in the schools, and in the prayer-meetings that always went hand-in-hand with the schools. All their lives, the lash or the auction-block had been the swift penalty for slaves who were caught learning to read. Now that the fetters had fallen from mind as well as body there came an eagerness 6 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. to learn that was like a consuming fire. The world never saw such a sight before as these schools pre- sented. Families pinched with hunger asked more eagerly for schools than for bread. Women of threescore and ten sometimes mastered the alphabet in a week. Old men bent over the same spelling-books with their grandchildren. Fathers would work all day to support their families, and walk every night to an evening school miles away. Girls suspended from school privileges for a few days, for some wrong- doing, would plead instead for the penalty of a whipping. Their gratitude for instruction was as fervent as their desire for it was ravenous, and their attachment to their teachers was most devoted. The first school for the freedmen was started by teachers sent out for that purpose by the American Missionary Association. This society was formed in 1846, because of the acquiescent attitude towards slavery of most of the older missionary organiza- tions. It had sustained missions among the negroes of Jamaica and West Africa. Its home missionaries in the slave-holding States, while striving to reach both white and black with schools and the preach- ing of the gospel, had always faithfully borne testi- mony against the great sin of slavery. It had the confidence and support of the friends of freedom. And when this great task of giving more than four millions of freedmen a Christian education was sud- denly laid, upon the nation, its origin, its associa- tions, and its past labors, all pointed to it as provi- dentially trained up for the occasion. And to it a large part of the work has fallen. THE SCHOOLS FOR THE FREEDMEH. 7 In 1863 it had 83 ministers and teachers in this field; in 1864, 250; in 1868, 532. Since the work began it has expended about $3,000,000 in it. As public schools came to be opened, to some extent, for the colored people, and as the importance of permanent institutions for the training of teachers and ministers from among the freedmen themselves became more apparent, and the necessity for them more imperative, the Association withdrew for the most part from this temporary primary work, and concentrated its efforts upon a system of training- schools. Besides the seventeen academies and normal schools which it has planted at central points throughout the South, and which require the ser- vices of nearly a hundred skilled teachers, it has under its fostering care seven chartered institutions for collegiate and theological education. These are located in as many different States, and no two of them are within three hundred miles of each other. They are Berea College, at Berea, Kentucky ; Hamp- ton Institute, at Hampton, Virginia ; Fisk Univer- sity, at Nashville, Tennessee ; Atlanta University at Atlanta, Georgia; Talladega College, at Talla. dega, Alabama; Tougaloo University, at Tougaloo, Mississippi; and Straight University, at New Or- leans, Louisiana. CHAPTER II. THE FORLORN HOPE. The first steps towards the establishment of Fisk University were taken in the autumn of 1865. Rev. E. P. Smith, after rendering invaluable service to the Union army during the war as the Field Agent of the United States Christian Commission, had just taken up the work of Secretary of the American Missionary Association at Cincinnati. Rev. E. M. Cravath, early in the war, had exchanged the min- istrations of an Ohio parish for those of an army chaplaincy. The son of a pioneer Abolitionist, whose home was a busy station on the “ Underground Rail- way,” and whose children were thus inoculated from their earliest days with anti-slavery convictions and a special interest in the colored race, his army expe. rience had brought him into such acquaintance with the needs of the Freedmen, that, at the close of the war, he was commissioned by the Association for special service in organizing its schools in the same department to which Mr. Smith had been assigned. These two met at Nashville. Carefully surveying the field, they were convinced that this was a cen- tral point where a permanent university ought to be planted for the higher education of the freed people, to equip their ministers and teachers, and to give AN IDEA DANES SHAPE. 9 their leaders in all departments of the life now open- ing before them a Christian training for their work. As the capital city of Tennessee, and as the base of some of the most extensive and decisive military operations of the war, Nashville was not only a point of great business, social, and political importance, but the centre of a large colored population. Eight of the thirteen formerly slave-holding States sur- round and actually border upon Tennessee, and in it and them four fifths of the freed people have their homes. To aid in starting such an important enterprise, there were, providentially, two other efficient friends of the freed people at hand, — General Clinton B. Fisk, the distinguished Christian soldier then in charge of the Freedmen’s Bureau in the District of Kentucky and Tennessee; and Professor John Og- den, formerly Principal of the Minnesota State Nor- mal School, and afterwards an officer in the Union army, but at that time resident in Nashville as the agent of the Western Freedmen’s Aid Commission, — a society which was afterwards merged into the American Missionary Association. These four took hold of the work, but were met at the outset by two formidable difficulties. A site and buildings of its own were absolutely essential to the success of the undertaking. The Association at that time had no funds that it felt at liberty to in- vest in real estate for such an enterprise. More than that, the dominant element in the coummunity was so hostile to any effort to elevate the colored people, that it was next to impossible to purchase land for such uses. But a favorable site was found 10 THE JUBILEE SINGERS \ and secured without the purpose for which it was wanted being made known to the seller ; three of these friends of the work becoming individually re- sponsible for the entire purchase-money of $16,000. One of the chief advantages of the location was the fact that it was already occupied by a group of one-story frame buildings, which had been erected and used for hospital barracks by the Union army. It was known that these could be obtained from the government, and be easily and cheaply adapted to the present necessities of the enterprise. And so, in January, 1866, the new school was opened. The occasion was the most notable event of the sort in the history of the colored people of Tennessee. Gov- ernor Brownlow made a short address, and other distinguished gentlemen in civil and military life were present. There was inspiration for the freed people in the very thought of thus founding a uni- versity for the emancipated slaves, who had all their life long been forbidden the slightest knowledge of letters. The officers’ quarters became the home of an earn- est band of teachers ; the sick-wards were fitted up as school-rooms, and filled with hundreds of eager children ; the dead-house was turned into a store- room of supplies for the naked and hungry. And there was an almost pathetic romance in the work when a pile of rusty handcuffs and fetters from the abandoned slave-pen of the city came into the pos- session of the school, and were sold as old iron, and the money invested in the purchase of Testaments and spelling-books ! The number of pupils in daily attendance the first A BUSY HIVE. II year averaged over one thousand. Some who began the first term never ceased attendance until they had graduated, ten years afterwards, from a full collegiate course. At first the instruction was, of necessity, of an elementary sort. But the idea upon which the school was avowedly founded, of providing the high- est collegiate advantages, was kept prominently in view. In 1867 the action of the city of Nashville, in making some provision for public schools at which colored people could be educated, relieved the school of many of its primary pupils and opened the way for more perfectly carrying out the original pur- pose. A university charter was obtained. Some of the buildings which had been used as school- rooms were refitted as dormitories, into which stu- dents from abroad, eager for a higher education, at once began to gather. It was not long before the number applying for admission was greater than could be accommodated. There never was a hive of busier workers. As they became qualified for the work, the students went out to teach, — missionaries to lift up their less- favored fellows. Many of them in this way earned the money that enabled them to return again and go on farther with their own studies. In a single year as many as 10,000 children have been enrolled in the schools taught by teachers sent out from Fisk, ■ — teachers, some of whom a little while before did not themselves know one letter from another ! The school was pervaded, too, by a religious earnestness that was contagious. The conversion of new stu- dents was confidently looked for, and more earnestly sought than their progress in letters. 12 THE JUBILEE SINGERS , But along with all this success there had been a steadily increasing occasion of anxiety. The build- ings, cheaply and hastily constructed, as they were, for temporary uses, were falling into decay. The site, which had been admirably adapted for the earlier work of the Institution, was found unsuited to its permanent uses. Year by year the problem of obtaining funds for a new site and new buildings grew more and more perplexing. The necessity for its solution at last became imperative, and the Uni- versity treasurer, Mr. George L. White, undertook to work it out. Mr. White was a native of Cadiz, New York, born in 1838. A village blacksmith’s boy, his school privileges were limited to what he learned in the public school before the age of fourteen. Like so many other Yankee boys while waiting for their work, — or while getting ready for it, — he became a school-teacher. He had inherited from his father a special love for music, and though he had never had any musical instruction himself, and made no pretensions as a vocalist, his schools were famous for the good singing which he had the knack of get- ting out of his pupils. Leaving the school-room for the camp, he fought for the Union in the bloody battles of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville ; and the close of the war found him in the employ of the Freedmen’s Bureau at Nashville. He had been actively interested in Sun- day-school work among the freedmen, and at the opening of Fisk School was invited by Professor Ogden, its principal, to devote his leisure hours to the instruction of the pupils in vocal music. When THE STUDENT CHOIR . 13 Fisk University was chartered he became its treas- urer — in other words, its man-of-all-work in business matters. The progress made by his large singing classes was a surprise and delight to him. With a presenti- ment, seemingly, of what was coming, he began to pick out the most promising voices and give them that special training for which his own remarkable range of voice, instinct for musical effect, and mag- netism as a drill-master so well fitted him. In the spring of 1867 he gave a public concert with his school chorus, which was a great success financially, and a greater one in opening the eyes of the white people to the possibilities that lay hidden in the education of the blacks. A leading daily interpreted the concert as evidence that the negro was susceptible of education, and raised the question whether it was not the duty of the Southern people to take hold of the work, instead of leaving it to Northern people with so many radical bees in their bonnets ! In 1868 he gave another and better concert; and in 1870 his now well-drilled classes rendered the beautiful cantata of “ Esther ” before a large and delighted assembly. Taking a part of his choir to Memphis, he gave a concert to an audience that filled the opera-house ; and another trip o.ithward to Chattanooga met with equal success. About this time the National Teachers’ Associa- tion of the United States held its annual convention in Nashville, and arrangements were made for the Fisk choir to sing in the opening exercises, to the great disgust of some who were profanely indignant H THE JUBILEE SINGERS. that “ the — — niggers could not be kept in their own places.” Other musicians were to favor the convention with their services at the subsequent meetings ; but the singing of the “ niggers” proved to be so popular that they were in demand for every session until the close of the convention. All this while the thought had been taking firmer hold of Mr. White’s mind that a student choir might be organized, which could travel through the North and sing out of the people’s pocket the money that must soon be obtained in some way for the Univer- sity. The plan was talked over and prayed over for a year or two. But, turn it to the light in any way they could, the risks seemed too great. It was one thing to give a paying concert at home, or to make flying trips to points not far away ; it was quite another to start out on a campaign that would certainly involve large expenses, while its returns might be quite inadequate to meet them. Large expenditures would be unavoidable at the start — 'for the outfit that would be absolutely nec- essary for these poorly clad students, and for the purchase of their railway tickets to Ohio. The University treasury was almost empty ; the Associa- tion did not feel at liberty to risk funds contributed for missionary work in such a speculative venture. And it was not easy to persuade the untravelled parents of some of the students to risk their children in it. But a few clear-headed friends had faith in the plan, and, after much prayer and perplexity of purpose, Mr. White felt the command laid on him from the Lord to go forward. Taking the little money that was left in the Uni- THE FORLORN' HOPE STARTS. 55 versity treasury after buying provisions to last the school for a few days, putting with it all his own, and borrowing on his own notes an amount whos^ payment, if the venture was a failure, would strip him of every penny of his property, he started out with barely enough money to set his party in working order on the north side of the Ohio River. CHAPTER III. ADRIFT ON STORMY SEAS. The company as it left Nashville, October 6, 1871, followed by the good wishes, prayers, misgiv- ings, and anxieties of the whole University, num- bered thirteen persons. These were Mr. White, who was at the same time the captain, supercargo, pilot, steward, and crew of the ship ; Miss Wells, the Prin- cipal of an American Missionary Association school at Athens, Alabama, who took the oversight of the girls of the party ; and eleven students — Ella Sheppard, Maggie L. Porter, Jennie Jackson, Minnie Tate, Eliza Walker, Phoebe J. Anderson, Thomas Rutling, Benjamin M. Holmes, Greene Evans, Isaac P. Dickerson, and George Wells. The day after reaching Cincinnati the Singers met with the Rev. Messrs. Halley and Moore, the pastors of the two leading Congregational churches of the city, who were so delighted with their songs that they immediately arranged to hold praise meet- ings in their churches on Sunday, the next day, that their people might have the pleasure of hearing them. Full audiences greeted them in both ser- vices. On Monday a free concert was given and a collection taken at the close. The audience was large but the contribution small. THE FIRST CONCERT. 1 7 It was on this Sunday and Monday, so well re- membered all over the world, that the great Chicago fire swept away the houses of one hundred thousand people and property to the value of $200,000,000. In Ohio, as everywhere else, people could scarcely think or talk about anything else, much less give money to any other object. There had not been for ten years a week that would have been, to all appearances, such an un- favorable time for the Singers to commence their work. Out of money and in debt as they were, they donated the entire proceeds of their first paid concert, which amounted to something less than $50, to the Chicago relief fund. This was given in Chillicothe, and called out a card from the Mayor and leading citizens cordially commending to public patronage the two concerts that followed. Here at Chillicothe they met with an indignity which was often repeated in the next year’s expe- rience. Applying at one of the principal hotels for entertainment, they were refused admittance because of their color. Treated in the same way at a second, they only secured shelter at a third by the landlord’s giving up his own bed- room to them to use as a parlor, and furnishing them their meals before the usual hour, that his other guests might not leave the house. This odious and cruel caste- spirit it was to be a part of their mission — little as it was in their plans and painful as it was in expe- rience — to break down. It was owing not a little to their triumphant success as singers, and to the story of the distinguished attentions they received from the people of highest rank and culture both THE JUBILEE SINGERS. S8 in America and Great Britain, that the prejudice against coior, the hateful heritage of slavery, which was so prevalent and powerful as to make those insults common in their first year’s work, was so broken down that they were quite unfrequent in their travels three years afterwards. People who would not sit in the same church-pew with a negro, under the magic of their song were able to get new light on questions of social equality. Returning to Cincinnati to fill engagements for the Sabbath they found a dense audience gathered at Mr. Moore’s church, in spite of rainy and un- pleasant weather. It was hoped that the increas- ing enthusiasm manifested in connection with these praise-services would insure a good audience at the paid concert which had been appointed at Mozart Hall for Tuesday evening; for hotel and travelling bills were already assuming serious proportions. But the receipts were barely sufficient to defray the local expenses of the concert. H owever, it was not altogether lost labor. “ It was,” said one of the dailies, “ probably the first con- cert ever given by a colored troupe in this temple, which has resounded with the notes of the best vocalists of the land. The sweetness of the voices, the accuracy of the execution, and the precision of the time, carried the mind back to the early con- certs of the Hutchinsons, the Gibsons, and other famous families, who years ago delighted audiences and taught them with sentiment while they pleased them with melody.” Jennie Jackson’s rendering of the “ Old Folks at Home ,” as an encore, was re- ceived with rapturous applause. Mr. Dickerson sang UPS AND DOWNS. l 9 the “ Temperance Medley” here for the first time, and the class trembled for him, as he stood there with his knees beating a tattoo against each other, in a rusty coat that was as much too long for the fashion as his trousers were too short for neighborly acquaintance with his low shoes. But confidence came with the sound of his own voice, and the au- dience forgot the appearance of the singer in their enjoyment of his song. Journeying next to Springfield, to fill an appoint- ment for a concert at Black's Opera-house, they found less than twenty people gathered to hear them, and with heavy hearts they announced that they would postpone the entertainment. A Synod of Presbyterian ministers was in session here, and Mr. White obtained permission for the Singers to appear before them. Assigned a half- hour in which to sing, and state their cause, it was a full hour before the Synod would release them. And not only did they testify their delight “ in a vociferous, heartfelt, and decidedly unclerical man- ner, with hands, feet, and voice,” but they passed a resolution “ heartily commending them to the favor of the Christian community,” and emphasized it by taking up a collection for their benefit of $105. Working their way in a zig-zag path northward, they gave a concert at Yellow Springs, where the colored Baptist church was kindly placed at their disposal. At Xenia two concerts yielded them $84, and afforded the colored students of Wilberforce University a stimulus that was worth, in another way, quite as much more. For those were days in which anything well done by a colored man was 20 THE JUBILEE SINGERS, an inspiration to all the rest of his race to whose knowledge it came. At London, their singing in Springfield before the Synod bore fruit in the active efforts of the Presby- terian pastor in their behalf. The Sabbath was spent in Columbus, the Singers taking the place of the choir at one of the churches, and singing at a Sun- day-school concert which is remembered as an occa- sion of special interest. At Worthington they met a hearty welcome from Professor Ogden and his wife, their old instructors at Fisk, who had done work of lasting value in lying its foundation, but were now in charge of the Ohio State Normal School at that place. There they remained several days for much-needed rest, giving a concert meanwhile which, thanks specially to the active efforts of these two old friends, yielded $60. At Delaware their concert paid still better, and, for the first time on their trip, they were permitted to sit in the same parlors and at the same tables in the hotel as white people. Three concerts at Welling- ton netted them little more than enough money to take them on to Cleveland ; where they sang on Sun- day at the First Presbyterian and Plymouth Con- gregational churches, with the satisfaction that their unique praise-services invariably gave. All this time they were living, as the old phrase has it, from hand to mouth, — depending on the pro- ceeds of one concert to pay the next morning’s hotel charges and buy their railway-tickets to the next appointment. Any special collapse in an evening’s receipts left them helpless till some friend stepped forward — as there was almost always some friend in FRIENDS LOOK ASKANCE. 21 such an emergency who did — and paid hall and hotel bills. But the great trial was that no light had dawned on their mission. They would have done better to stay at home if they were to make nothing above ex j penses. So scantily clad were they that Miss Shep- pard was obliged to travel one rainy day with no protection for her feet but cloth slippers. It was not until some time after the biting weather of the North- ern winter, to whose severity they were quite unused* had fully set in that Mr. White was able, by borrow, ing $5 that had been given to Minnie Tate, and pick- ing up $19 in other ways, to purchase overcoats for two of the young men, who had really been suffering for want of them. In one way and another a comfortable outfit had been secured for the young women ; but such were the varieties of style represented that it was not un- common for Ella Sheppard to be asked if Minnie Tate was her daughter,— the former being twenty and the latter fourteen. And Jennie Jackson, who was nineteen, was sometimes taken to be the mother of Eliza Walker, who was fourteen. The coolness, amounting often to indifference and sometimes to suspicion, with which even many of the warmest friends and supporters of the American Missionary Association looked upon this new agency for raising funds for its work, was one of the specially discouraging and trying features of the enterprise. Ministers were often loth, and not unnaturally, to let the Singers into their choirs ; and if they gave them the use of their churches for a praise-meeting, they sometimes showed a strong inclination to take 22 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. their own seats among the audience and near the door ! But Mr. White’s grip upon his purpose was not easily loosened, and he learned to let none of those things move him, knowing that the enthusiasm of these doubting friends after the service was almost sure to be in about an inverse ratio to their expecta- tions before it. During these days of experiment and trial Mr. White was loaded down with the work of at least four men. In other enterprises of this sort— -and the same plan was afterwards found to be essential to the largest success of the Jubilee Singers— -it is considered necessary to have a business manager, who lays out the route, visits or corresponds with editors and public men, and arranges the general plan of the campaign. Then an advance agent goes forward and puts these plans in operation, while his alternate accompanies the troupe to take up the tickets, pay the bills, and look after the details of the evening’s management. A musical director arranges the pro- gramme, drills the singers, and answers the rattling volley of questions from curious and admiring friends. And where school-girls are in the company, and es- pecially those hitherto unused to self-care and the demands of cultivated society, a governess is needed to look after their health and deportment. In those early days the duties of general manager, advance agent, musical director, ticket-seller, and porter all fell to Mr. White. When the Singers halted somewhere for rest, he pushed ahead to lay out a new route ; sometimes, when but a few appoint- ments remained, he left Miss Wells and Miss Shep* DARK DA YS. 23 pard, the pianist, to attend to them while he went off to make new ones. The Singers he kept in drill the best he could. A rehearsal of some piece on their evening's programme was often the first course when they gathered about the dinner-table. With all this work on his hands, there lay on his heart the burden of increasing debt and the con- sciousness that, while the business affairs of the University were needing his presence, the fact that he was earning no money and sending them no en- couragement was adding to the uneasiness and anx- iety of his associates at home. Many a time their last dollar was paid out for provisions ; and he and they found frequent occasions to adopt the prayer of the old slave-song, — “ O Lord, O my Lord, O my good Lord! Keep me from sinking down.” But with a steadfast Christian faith, that seemed little less than obstinacy to those who could not read the Divine leadings, he held cn. CHAPTER IV. LIGHT IN THE EAST. Mr. WHITE had laid out the plan of his trip with special reference to reaching Oberlin in time to sing before the National Council of the Congregational churches, which was to assemble thereon the 15 th of November. Consisting, as it would, of leading Congregational ministers and laymen from all parts of the land, and specially representing the constitu- ency of the American Missionary Association, he argued that to get a hearing before it would give him leverage of great advantage for his work. And his reasoning was not at fault. The Council consented to hear a few pieces dur- ing a recess in their deliberations. Everybody was delighted. A collection of over $130 was taken upon the spot ; and the seed sown was destined to bear much richer fruit after many days. Two of the sec- retaries of the Association were present, and they agreed that it was advisable for Mr. White to push on eastward. To relieve him of some of his over- load of care, Mr. G. S. Pope, formerly in the service of the Association in its work among the freedmen, but now a theological student at Oberlin, was en- gaged to attend to the duties of advance agent. From Oberlin the company went to Cleveland to FRIENDS IN NEED. 25 give two concerts in Case Hall. The churches had been filled the Sunday before to listen to the Singers, but at neither concert were the receipts sufficient to meet expenses. Before the close of the second evening’s entertainment, on Saturday night, Mr. White made a few remarks explaining their mission, declaring his faith that God had called them to the work, and would somehow open the way ; but frankly admitting that he had barely money enough to pay for the hall, and nothing with which to meet their hotel bills over Sunday and their expenses to Columbus, where they were ad- vertised for a concert. Before leaving the hall one gentleman sent up a check for $100, written on the back of a programme, and three others handed him $40 more. This gave encouragement at a time when en- couragement was never more needed. For it is to be remembered that the movements of the Singers involved great expense. Case Hall rents for $75 a night ; to advertise a concert in such a city costs from $25 to $50 : and the hotel bills of the company were usually from $20 to $25 a day. There was abundant use, it will be seen, for the $140. At Columbus came two concerts, again, which did not pay expenses. Rev. H. S. Bennett, the pastor of the church at Nashville to which some of the Singers belonged, and also a trustee of the Univer- sity, was present, and a prayer-meeting was held to seek the Divine guidance in deciding what should be done with the enterprise. No light was found on any other course but to go forward. Hitherto the company had had no distinctive name. 26 THE JUBILEE SINGERS . They had been mentioned in a Cincinnati paper as “ a band of negro minstrels who call themselves Colored Christian Singers.” It was at Columbus, after an anxious and almost sleepless night, that Mr. White decided to name them “The Jubilee Singers.” The Old Testament “ year of jubilee” had always been the favorite figure of speech into which the slaves put their prayers and hopes for emancipation. Their year of jubilee had come — this little band of singers was a witness to it, an out. growth of it. There was thus a suggestiveness and obvious fitness in the name — it had a flavor of its own. There was a musical euphony in it, too, and it “ took” at once. Only those who have made a study of catering for the public taste can realize how much there is in a name. A novelist knows that the sale of a new story depends almost as much upon its title as its plot. Those who have been most closely associated with the Singers have come to believe that Mr. White’s christening of his company was the best night’s work he ever did. At Zanesville, also, their concert did not meet ex- penses. But a friend paid their hotel bill, which amounted to $27. What figure it would have reached had not the six girls been put into a single room over a shed, where the bedclothing was so of- fensive that they were constrained to roll the most of it in a bundle and lay it on the porch while they slept wrapped in their waterproofs, is not known. Mount Vernon was their next point, where Rev. T. E. Monroe, who had met them at Columbus, wel- comed them heartily to his church on Sunday, and A LITTLE LIGHT. 2 ? aided to make their concert on Monday evening a decided success. Here Ella Sheppard, who had been for some time in poor health, became so ill that the physician advised that she return at once to Nashville. But Mr. White could not be made to believe that the Lord wanted the company to go East without their pianist, and declined to follow this advice. And in a few days she recovered suffi- ciently to resume her work. Feeling their way to the best method of raising money, the experiment was tried again, at Mans- field, of a free concert with a collection at its close. But the result was the same as almost invariably at- tended this expedient before and since — the house was full, the contribution boxes nearly empty. On the next night an admission fee was charged, but the audience was small. Some thoughtful friend was moved, however, to propose a collection and it enabled Mr. White to pay all bills and buy tickets to Akron, where they had an appointment for a con- cert on the evening of Thanksgiving Day. This yielded only $20, but the consideration with which they were treated at the hotel, and the fine Thanks- giving dinner which was set before them, made their memories of Akron very pleasant ones. At Mead- ville, Pa., their Sabbath services in the Methodist Church were well attended, and their concert on Monday evening moderately successful. Still moving eastward, they came next to James- town, N.Y., where the Congregational pastor, Rev. Col. Anderson, who was familiar from personal in- spection with the good work that was being done at Fisk, had made ready for them. A praise-meeting 28 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. at his church was followed, on the next two nights, by concerts. In spite of a severe snow-storm, which interfered greatly with street travel, the net receipts were sufficient for the purchase of tickets to New York City. Stopping at Elmira, they held a praise-meeting on Sunday afternoon in the First Presbyterian Church, to the disgust of a few of its supporters who spelled negro with two g’s, and stayed away from the ser- vice, and to the great delight of all who attended. In the evening they sang a few selections at the Rev. T. K. Beecher’s regular service in the opera- house ; and the next night gave a concert at his church, which was the greatest success, so far, of their trip. The leading hotels of the city had, it is true, one after another refused the party entertain- ment when they arrived on the midnight train. But the papers were lavish in praise of their services of song, and Mr. Beecher wrote a letter to his distin- guished Brooklyn brother, Plenry Ward Beecher, warmly commending them to his attention. The night had been long and dark, but it really seemed as if these flashes of light in their Eastern sky meant that the sunrise was at hand. At New York they were at the headquarters of the American Missionary Association, and so in a special sense among their friends. As no good hotel accommoda- tions could be secured at reasonable rates, three of the officers of the Association, who lived in adjoin- ing houses in Brooklyn, took the party into their own families. And there they found a home for the next six weeks. Prior to their arrival at New York, Rev. George “ BEECHER'S NEGRO MINSTRELS 29 Whipple, the senior secretary of the American Mis- sionary Association, had arranged with Rev. Henry Ward Beecher that they should attend his Friday evening prayer-meeting and sing a few slave-hymns at the close of the service. Mr. Beecher and his people were delighted. After singing about twenty minutes, the party started to retire from the plat- form. Mr. Beecher, jumping up, requested them to return. Standing in front of them, with pocket-book in hand, he indicated, with characteristic drollery and enthusiasm, that a collection would be taken up, after which they would have a few more songs. Be- fore the meeting closed he announced that this was but a foretaste of what was to come : the Singers were to give a concert in the church the next week ? and the congregation were to give them a benefit. As Mr. Beecher’s lecture-room talks were widely circulated through the papers, this resulted in a very favorable introduction to the public. The concert at Plymouth Church was well attended, and the en- thusiam unbounded. Mr. Beecher had urged his people from the pulpit the preceding Sabbath to give the Singers a hearty welcome, and they seemed bent on gratifying him to the utmost. The New York Herald headed the column containing its report the next morning “ Beecher’s Negro Min- strels.” This helped to advertise their work, while it did not prejudice it in the minds of the Christian people whose opinion was worth most to it. The experience of the next few weeks was as uni- formly encouraging as that of the last two months had been depressing. A few songs in a prayer- meeting or Sunday-school, with a brief explanation 30 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. of their mission, generally secured at once the offer of the church for a concert, and a hearty commenda- tion of their work from the pulpit that rarely failed to bring out an audience. From Dr. Talmage’s and Dr. Cuyler’s prayer- meetings they went away richer by generous contri- butions on the spot. Dr. Storrs gave up his Sunday evening service for their praise-meeting. Dr. Scud- der invited them into his church. A concert in Dr. Burchard’s church, the Thirteenth Street Presbyte- rian of New York, was thronged by a delighted au- dience of the highest culture and social position. Dr. Budington interested himself in promoting the success of a concert in his church in Brooklyn. At the Tabernacle Church, Jersey City, of which Rev. G. B. Willcox, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association, was pastor, they were greeted by the largest audience that had ever yet attended one of their paid concerts — the receipts amounting to nearly $740. Preliminary to a flying trip to Boston to give a concert in the Music Hall, in connection with the annual Methodist Reunion, Mr. Beecher wrote to a Boston friend : “ They will charm any audience, sure ; they make their mark by giving the ‘ spirituals ’ and plantation hymns as only they can sing them who know how to keep time to a master’s whip. Our people have been delighted.” And in a lecture which he delivered in Boston just before their com- ing Mr. Beecher took occasion to advise everybody to attend. Dr. Cuyler wrote to the New York Tribune of their concert in his church, the Lafayette Avenue GOOD PROSPECTS . 31 Presbyterian of Brooklyn : “ I never saw a cultivated Brooklyn assemblage so moved and melted under the magnetism of music before. The wild melodies of these emancipated slaves touched the fount of tears, and gray-haired men wept like little children. Their wonderful skill was put to the severest test when they attempted ‘ Home, Sweet Home,’ before auditors who had heard those same household words from the lips of Jenny Lind and Parepa. Yet these emancipated bond-women — now that they know what the word ‘ home ’ signifies — rendered that dear old song with a power and pathos never surpassed. Allow me to bespeak a universal welcome through the North for these living representatives of the only true native school of American music. We have long enough had its coarse caricatures in corked faces ; our people can now listen to the genuine soul-music of the slave cabins, before the Lord led his children ‘ out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage ! ’ ” The news of their successes at this metropolitan centre of business enterprise, social culture, and Christian work, rayed out, of course, in every direc- tion. Thenceforward a part of the heavy load that they had previously carried steadily grew lighter,— the labor of creating a demand for their entertain- ments wherever they offered them. Their enterprise was nearly out of debt, and the company were in that excellent working order which such an inspirit- ing change in their prospects might be expected to promote. A campaign through the principal towns of Connecticut was planned. Rev. G. D. Pike, one of the district secretaries of the American Missionary 3 2 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. Association, as well as its other officers, had been actively interested in the work in and about New York. As Connecticut was in his district, he offered the Singers his services on this trip, which his spe- cial acquaintance with the field, as well as his busi- ness tact and energy, made most welcome. High hopes were cherished that they might be able to raise $500 a week above their expenses. CHAPTER V. SUCCESS AT LAST. This campaign was a succession of triumphs. The Singers, with their experiences of the last three months so vividly in remembrance, seemed to them- selves to be walking in a dream. Mr. White had expected success, but even he had not dared to hope for such a success as this. Ministers everywhere — and especially those who had cheered the Singers at Oberlin with their applause and contributions, and so felt a sort of proprietary interest »n the work — gave themselves enthusiastically to promote arrange- ments for their concerts. And the audiences that crowded the churches and halls where they sang did not seem to be content merely with contributing an admission fee to their funds. Almost a furore for making them presents broke out, and spread from town to town as they went. At Bristol, famous for its manufacture of clocks, a gentleman pledged a supply of that useful article for the new Hall on its completion. At Winsted, another manufacturing centre, a few friends pro- mised a bell. The Douglass Manufacturing Co., at Middletown, asked the party to take from its cata- logue whatever goods the University might need. The Meriden Britannia Co. gave them a full outfit 3 34 THE JUBILEE SINGERS . of silver ware for the dining-hall ; another Meriden firm contributed gas fixtures ; and a president of one of the Meriden banks sent word that while he could not invite them to take us much as they might need from the bank, yet if they would call he would make them a present of $100. Several gentlemen in Birmingham contributed $50 each to fit up a “Birmingham Recitation Room” in the new building. At the concert in Waterbury, two gentlemen sent up $200; and the contributions, in cash and valuables, at the concert in New Haven amounted to $500. Here at New Haven the enthusiasm seemed to touch high-water mark. Two of the principal hotels had declined to entertain the Singers on account of their color. The fact became public through the papers, and some of the families of highest social position in the city at once opened their doors to receive them. Their concert was announced for Thursday evening. By Tuesday morning all the de- sirable seats were sold. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was advertised for a lecture on the same night. But there was so little demand for the tickets that Thurs- day’s papers announced that the lecture would be deferred on account of the concert ! Mr. Beecher attended the concert and made one of his felicitous speeches. No one was apparently more delighted than he that a day had come in that university city when a company of freed slave singers could draw an audience away from the greatest preacher and lecturer in the land. The admission receipts at this concert were over $1200. The collection taken for them the next INSULTS AND HONORS . . 1 $ Sunday evening, in the Second Congregational Church in Norwich, was the largest contribution they had ever received at a Sunday service, and the gross income of the last seven days of this Connect- icut campaign exceeded $3900. At the Sterling House, in Bridgeport, the party were assigned to some of the best rooms in that first- class hotel, and admitted to the same privileges in the dining-room as the most aristocratic guests. The answer of the proprietor, when asked if his boarders complained of such attentions to colored people, was pithy and to the point, “/ keep this hotel, sir !” At Norwich they were the guests of Connecticut’s distinguished War Governor and Senator, the late Hon. William A. Buckingham. But the very next day they were turned out of a hotel in Newark, New Jersey, by a publican who would have felt honored by even a bow from Governor Buckingham on the street. This tavern-keeper had inferred, it seems, when accommodations were engaged for them in ad- vance, that they were a company of “ nigger min- strels.” Although they had already retired to the rooms assigned to them before he discovered that their faces were colored by their Creator, and not with burnt cork, he promptly drove them into the street. The outrage was the harder to bear because they were in special need of rest ; for they had been riding all night, and their nervous energies were well-nigh exhausted after the draught which the un- usual excitement and success of the last few weeks had made upon them. The best citizens of Newark 36 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. visited their indignation without stint on the land- lord. Some of his most valuable patrons immedi- ately left the house ; and it is said that the city council took advantage of the favorable feeling toward colored people thus stimulated to pass an ordinance opening to them all the privileges of the public schools. A visit to Washington followed, which was no exception to the success which had of late so stead- ily attended them. The Vice-President, with his family, and many members of Congress, came to their concerts. The President turned aside from pressing public duties to give them audience at the White House, assure them of his interest in their work, and hear them sing, “ Go down, Moses.” “ Parson Brownlow,” the famous Unionist Senator from their own State, was so ill as to be unable to sit up, but received them in his sick-room, and cried like a child as these emancipated slaves sang that pleading, pathetic song of sorrow, — “ O Lord, O my Lord, O my good Lord! Keep me from sinking down/ Returning again to New York, a series of concerts culminated in two memorable gatherings at Stein- way Hall. The platform each evening was occupied by some of the most eminent divines of the metrop- olis, and the great hall was filled with a delighted audience in which the I life of the city was largely represented. Many went away unable to obtain seats. By this time the business methods and machinery of concert work had been thoroughly perfected. Mr. Pike was relieved from the duties of his secretary- SECRET OF THE SUCCESS. 37 ship to continue in this enterprise, for which he had shown such aptitude, and which was to owe so much of its subsequent success to his energy and sagacity. There was need that Miss Wells should return to her school in Alabama ; and Miss Susan Gilbert, who had been for some years in the service of the Association in North Carolina, and afterwards at its home office, took her place. The Singers at last had the tide in their favor. They were now so well known that they did not need to sing to half-filled halls until they could make a reputation. Their songs were unique, and people did not tire of hearing them over and over again. Thanks to Mr. White’s unusual skill, both in choosing voices and drilling them, their singing, as all the critics agreed, was something wonderful in its harmony, power, and bell-like sweetness. Their history as emancipated slaves touched the interest and sympathy of the public, particularly that part of it which had been interested in the great anti-slavery struggle. And last, but by no means least, in accounting for their success, they furnished a refined and wholesome entertainment, which Christian people who did not care to visit the theatre and kindred places of amusement could attend and enjoy. There was need of, and a wide demand for, just such healthful and elevating diver- sion as these concerts afforded. Beginning with several concerts in Boston, they now visited successively the more prominent points in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and a number of places in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, meeting everywhere an enthusiasm and a helpful- THE JUBILEE SINGERS. 38 ness from friends not unlike that by which they were borne through Connecticut the month pre- vious. Among the presents received in Boston was a $1000 organ for the University, from Smith Broth- ers. Hon. A. C. Barstow of Providence had heard them at Oberlin, and tendered them the use of his beautiful music-hall at that city, where their con- certs were one repeated ovation. Returning to the same city some days subsequently, after singing at Worcester, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Wakefield, An- dover, Cambridgeport, Taunton, and other points, another concert yielded them about $1000. At Andover and Taunton the good-will of the people took the shape of contributions for the pur- chase of books for the University library. Reach- ing Boston again, $1235 was taken in at a mcttinle on Saturday afternoon, the largest sum ever realized up to that time from the admission receipts alone of any one entertainment. Their songs, which had been written out for the first time by Prof. Theodore F. Seward, the distin- guished teacher and composer, and published in book form, were sold by hundreds at their concerts, and hills and valleys, parlors and halls, wherever they went, were vocal with the Jubilee melodies. After a week spent in Cambridge, Chelsea, Salem, and Newburyport, they visited Portland, Maine, wnere the Council tendered them the free use of the city hall. Remunerative concerts followed at Con- cord and Hanover, New Hampshire ; St. Johnsbury, Vermont; and Springfield, Massachusetts, the latter yielding $1050. With a night at Troy, New York, HOME AGAIN. 39 and another at Poughkeepsie, the first season’s singing campaign closed. The fruit of these three months’ work was $20,000, more than three times as much as their enthusiasm had dared hope for when starting out from New York on the Connecti- cut campaign. It was a tired but light-hearted party that now started homeward. They had bought first-class tickets from New York to Nashville, and on arriving at the station in Louisville early in the morning, entered the unoccupied sittingroom assigned to first-class passengers. A railway employe, coming along soon afterwards, gave notice that “niggers” were not allowed in that room, and ordered the party out. Mr. White claimed the right to keep his company there by virtue of their tickets, and declined to leave until turned out by some responsi- ble authority. Thereupon a policeman was brought, who, with angry profanity, ejected them from the room, amid the applause of a cursing mob of one or two thousand people. The superintendent of the road, however, as he has made a habit of doing ever since when the party have had occasion to pass on his line, placed a first-class car at their disposal. The novel sight of such- a carnage with colored faces at almost every window made a sensation at every station where they stopped. The company was received at the University with a joy and thanksgiving that cannot be described. They had gone forth weeping; but they returned bringing their sheaves with them — a marvellous harvest after those months of marvellous patience, privation, and triumph. CHAPTER VI. THE SECOND CAMPAIGN. Under God’s blessing their labors had saved the University from suspending, or even curtailing, its work. But their success, so far, in raising money, was chiefly valuable as evidence that a way had been found for obtaining the much larger sum that the necessities of the growing work required. The Singers had received an invitation to participate in the second World’s Peace Jubilee, to be held in Bos- ton in June. Stopping in Nashville little more than a week, they again took the field. Giving a few concerts in Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio, they went on to Boston. Parts had been assigned them on the programmes of several days’ exercises. The immense audience of 40,000 people was gathered from all parts of the land ; and the color prejudice that had followed the Singers everywhere reappeared here in the shower of brutal hisses that greeted their first appearance. But the air of that radical New England city is not kindly to colorphobia, and a deluge of applause answered and drowned the in- sult. And a day or two after the Singers had a proud revenge. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe’s stirring lyric, “The Bat- tle-hymn of the Republic/’ was on the programme, AN INSULT ANSWERED. 4t to be sung to the air of “John Brown,” The first verses were to be taken by some colored singers of Boston. But for some unexplained reason the key was given to the orchestra in E-flat, cruelly high under such circumstances, and the first verses were a painful failure. The Jubilee Singers were to come in with the verse beginning “ He hath sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat.” Fired by the remembrance of their reception on the previous day, and feeling that to some extent the reputation of their color was at stake, they sang as if inspired. Mr. White’s masterly drill had made easy to them the high notes on which the others had failed. Every word of that first line rang through the great Coliseum as if sounded out of a trumpet. The great audience were carried away on a whirl- wind of delight ; the trained musicians in the or- chestra bent forward in forgetfulness of their parts ; and one old German was conspicuous, holding his violoncello above his head with one hand, and whack- ing out upon it his applause with the bow held in the other. When the grand old chorus, “ Glory, glory, halle- lujah,” followed, with a swelling volume of music from the great orchestra, the thunder of the bands, and the roar of the artillery, the scene was inde- scribable. Twenty thousand people were on their feet. Ladies waved their handkerchiefs. Men threw their hats in the air, and the Coliseum rang with cheers and shouts of “ The Jubilees ! The Jubilees forever !” Mr. Gilmore brought the Singers from their place below, and massed them upon his own platform, where they sang the remaining verses. 42 THE JUBILEE SINGERS'. Mr. White has never quite forgiven himself that he did not answer the thunderous encore that fol- lowed with “John Brown” in the original version ! Musically speaking, it was the greatest triumph of their career, and they never recall it yet without a gleaming eye and quickened pulse. It was worth more than a Congressional enactment in bringing that audience to the true ground on the question of “ civil rights.” The number of the Singers had been increased to fourteen, with a view to division into two companies when it was desired to visit the smaller places where it would not pay to take the full number ; and the rest of the summer was spent in rest and drill at Acton, Mass. A faithful trial, during the fall, of the experiment of two small companies little more than paid expenses; and at New Year’s Day the troupe was reorganized, to consist of eleven mem- bers, as follows: Ella Sheppard, Maggie L. Porter, Jennie Jackson, Mabel Lewis, Minnie Tate, Georgia Gordon, Julia Jackson, Thomas Rutling, Edmund Watkins, Benjamin M. Holmes, and Isaac P. Dick- erson. A busy and successful campaign of three months followed. The Singers received a letter, drawn up at the suggestion of their distinguished and faithful friend, Hon. George H. Stuart of Philadelphia, and signed by such representative citizens as Mr. Stuart, Jay Cooke, Rev. Dr. Hawes, Bishop Simpson, Rev. Dr. Newton, John Wanamaker, etc., inviting them to visit that city. The Academy of Music, one of the finest halls in the United States, had been refused a few months THE VISIT TO PHILADELPHIA. 43 before for an address by a United States senator, because he was a black man. But the names of the distinguished citizens by whose invitation the Sing- ers came to the city were sufficient to secure it for their concerts ; and the fact that they were the first representatives of the colored race to occupy that platform gave a special significance to the occasion. The great building was thronged night after night, and it was one of the most profitable series of con- certs ever given by the Singers. Application had been made to several of the lead- ing hotels for the entertainment of the party. But no hotel-keeper had been found with the convictions and courage to risk the odium he might incur if he admitted colored guests, and they had been com- pelled to take up inconvenient and insufficient quar- ters in a small boarding-house. This fact being mentioned at one of the concerts, the proprietor of the Continental, the best hotel in the city, who was absent when application was made at his office, at once announced that the Singers were welcome to as good accommodations as his house afforded. Sub- sequently he entertained them in the best manner, and at a generous reduction from regular rates. While stopping at the Continental, the house- keeper one day kindly escorted the party on a semi- subterranean tour through the kitchen and other working departments of the great hotel. They were much interested in the novel sight, and asked per- mission to invite the working force of the hotel to their dining-room, that they might sing for them. Word came to the guests of the hotel of what was going on, and they gathered about the doors of the 44 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. crowded room, begging that the concert might be adjourned to the larger dining-room. The Singers acquiesced on condition that their invited hearers, white and black, should have the front places. There probably was never a Jubilee concert that gave more pleasure to the occupants of the “ reserved seats nor to the rest of the audience, for that matter. At a concert to be given soon after, in the Ma- sonic Hall, Baltimore, a city noted for its intense pro-slavery feeling, the ticket-seller, acting in accord- ance with Baltimore usages, had taken upon himself the responsibility of refusing to sell reserved seats to colored people. This came to the ears of the company when they reached the city the day of the concert, and one of the Singers was sent incognito to the ticket-office to buy a reserved seat, and test the truth of the story. His application for a seat to hear himself sing was refused ! Here was evidently a call to do a little missionary work, as well as furnish some entertainment for the people of Baltimore. The ticket-seller was relieved from further duty, and notice was immediately given that any well-behaved person could have any seat in the hall by paying the advertised price for it. A few colored people occupied reserved seats here and there on the main floor, but it was never heard that any one received harm from such a radical innova- tion in Baltimore customs. The audience were ap- parently so interested in the singing that they for- got to study the color of their neighbors’ faces. The Singers were accustomed to being refused entertainment at hotels because of their color. This was not always, however, for fear merely of offend- FIGHTING THE CASTE SPIRIT. 45 ing other guests. In one case, in Illinois, the hotel servants squarely refused to wait on the “ nagurs,” as they pronounced the word, and the Singers were their own boot-blacks and chamber-maids. At an- other hotel the landlord met a similar refusal by pay- ing the mutineers their wages and sending them en- masse into the street. But the most offensive manifestation of caste prej- udice that ever flaunted itself in the face of the party occurred during this campaign, at Princeton, N. J. They had been invited by President McCosh, and other members of the Faculty of Princeton College, to visit the place, and one of the churches had been tendered them for their concert. A little while be- fore it was time for the concert to begin, they learned that an out-of-the-way corner of the church had been set aside for colored people, and that they were refused admission to any other part of the house. An estimable lady, who was a teacher in a colored mission school, had bought reserved seats for her class; but they, too, were compelled to take their place in the colored quarter under the gallery, regardless of the contract involved in the tickets which they held. The singers were so indignant that they would gladly have given up the concert. The fact that so many old friends of the slave had come from long distances to hear them alone per- suaded them to go on. During two seasons of concerts they had never before been subjected to this indignity, even in a public hall ; that it should be offered in a church of Christ was a grievance not to be passed over in si- lence, and Mr. White took occasion, in an interval 46 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. of the concert, to characterize it in the terms it de- served. It was plainer preaching on that subject, probably, than had ever been heard in that church before. And most of those who greeted it with their angry hisses have doubtless already lived long enough to be heartily ashamed of them. A tract of twenty-five acres, on a commanding site overlooking the city of Nashville, had been purchased for the permanent location of Fisk Uni- versity. During the war the eminence had been crowned by Fort Gillem, one of the encircling line of fortifications that had defended the city in the memorable contests that had raged around it. The students had worked with the laborers to level the earthworks, and the foundations had been laid for a noble building for university purposes, to be called Jubilee Hall. The project of visiting England with a view to raising funds for its completion, had been for some time under prayerful consideration. During the winter campaign it was decided to start early in the spring, and the closing work of the season took the shape of farewell concerts in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Providence, and elsewhere. One given in Boston, March 26th, in response to a request signed by Governor Claflin, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Rev. E. E. Hale, Dr. Kirk, Phillips Brooks, and several other eminent citizens, was the most suc- cessful, financially, that the Singers had ever given in that city. And so the winter's work drew to a close. Its net result was the addition of another $20,000 to their fund, making $40,000 that they had now secured. PREPARING TO GO ABROAD. 47 With exultation and thankfulness as they thought of past success, and with high hopes for the future, preparations were at once made for the visit to Great Britain. Very cordial letters of introduction, com- mending the music and mission of the Singers, were given by the governors of five of the New England States, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Hon. George H. Stuart, George Macdonald, — then on a lecturing tour in America, — and other influential friends. An open letter from Governor Brown of Tennessee, bespeak- ing favor for their work, was especially valuable as coming from the chief magistrate of a common- wealth that was so recently a slave State. They were not to get away, however, without still another conflict with caste prejudices. Cabin ac- commodations were refused the party by one after another of the leading ocean steamship lines. At last an application to the Cunard agents at Boston met with ready success; and when the Singers stepped on the deck of the good steamer Batavia, it was to enter upon a year’s experience where such annoyances were to be unknown. CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST VISIT TO LONDON. A STUDY of the situation, on Mr. Pike’s arrival in London in advance of the Singers, made it at once apparent that the indorsement and patronage of dis- tinguished people, which had been such a helpful feature of the work in America, were still more indis- pensable to an early and large success in England. Under a favoring Providence, the letters of intro- duction previously mentioned speedily opened the way to all of the assistance of this sort that could have been hoped for. The Earl of Shaftesbury, than whom no man in any station, on either side of the Atlantic, has given his life more untiringly and unselfishly to every spe- cies of philanthropic effort, at once manifested much interest in the enterprise. There was no one else in the kingdom whose rank, relations, and reputation would combine to make him such a valuable patron and friend. He was President of the Freedmen’s Missions Aid Society, the English organization aux- iliary to the American Missionary Association. In accordance with his advice, arrangements were made for a private concert at Willis’s Rooms on the after- noon of the 6th of May. Cards of invitation, issued in the name of the Earl of Shaftesbury and the Com- THE FIRST VISIT TO LONDON . 49 mittee of the Society, were sent to the nobility, members of Parliament, the leading clergymen of different denominations, editors, and other persons of influence likely to be interested in such a cause. The visit to London had been timed with a view to reaching the influential ministers and laymen from all parts of the kingdom who throng there during the May anniversaries. Mr. Pike — and Rev. James Powell, who, being of English birth and used to English ways, had come with him to aid in launching the enterprise in foreign waters — had spent nearly a month in stirring up an interest through the press and in private effort. When the time for the concert came the hall was filled with a distinguished assemblage. The Singers, keenly eager to justify the promises made on their behalf, did their best. Before the programme was half finished they had carried their audience by storm. At the close con- gratulations were lavished upon them, and offers of cooperation were abundant. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll were foremost in expressing a desire to assist them, and before leaving the hall, arranged for a visit of the Singers to Argyll Lodge the next day. The leading dailies, the Times , the Standard , the News , the Telegraph , on the next morning gave cordial praise of the entertainment. Through this first concert, and the distinguished hospitalities to which it led, the Singers found themselves at once introduced to the British public under the most fav- oring auspices. The visit to Argyll Lodge was destined to be a more notable event than they, even in their great 4 5o THE JUBILEE SINGERS . gratification at what was apparent in the invitation, could at all foresee. The kind attentions with which they were received in the drawing-room were strik- ingly in contrast with their experiences of recent date in American hotels and railway stations. But what was their surprise and delight to learn, after a little time pleasantly spent in conversation with their noble hosts and other guests, that the Queen had been asked to be present and was expected soon ! They had been told, again and again, that if they could but sing before the Queen their success would be assured. But how to secure her notice for a company of young freed people, singers who had nothing of more renown to offer than the prayer- meeting hymns which they had learned in bondage, was a problem on which no light whatever had been cast until it lay suddenly solved before them. Soon after her Majesty’s arrival the Duke in- formed them that she would be pleased to see them in an adjoining room. At his request they sang, first, “ Steal away to Jesus;” then chanted the Lord’s Prayer, and sang “ Go down, Moses.” The Queen listened with manifest pleasure, and, as they withdrew, communicated through the Duke her thanks for the gratification they had given her. There was no stage parade or theatric pomp in the scene ; but the spectacle of England’s Queen coming from her palace to listen to the songs which these humble students learned in their slave cabins, and that not merely for her own entertainment, but to encourage them in their efforts to lift up their fellow freed people, was worthy a place in history. DISTINGUISHED HOSPITALITIES. 5 1 r ■ Other hospitalities made the next three months of their stay in London memorable. Probably no pri- vate party of Americans was ever before treated with such distinguished attention. It was not pos- sible for them to accept all of the invitations of this nature which they received. While at Argyll Lodge Dean Stanley invited them to visit the Deanery at Westminster Abbey, a pleasure which they realized a few days after. An afternoon was spent at the delightful home of Samuel Gurney, the distinguished Quaker abolition- ist, near Regent’s Park, introducing the Singers to a large party who were Friends in truth as well as name. To no one did the mission of the Singers mean more than to the noble circle of Quakers, who had all their lives long been such devoted friends of the oppressed. Mr. George Macdonald, the distinguished novel- ist, gave them a welcome invitation to his beautiful home on the banks of the Thames, on the occasion of one of his annual garden parties — a scriptural gathering of the poor and the lame whom he brings out from the crowded London tenements every sum- mer for a day’s outing under the trees. No one could have enjoyed more than the Singers the op- portunity of contributing to its success. But the most distinguished attentions of this sort which they received came through the kind offices of Rev. Newman Hall, in mentioning the Singers to Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone. The latter were to give a lunch at their residence, Carlton House Terrace, to the Prince and Princess of Wales, and other mem- bers of the royal family. The Singers were invited 52 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. to be present and chant the Lord’s Prayer, as a grace before lunch, and contribute in any other way that might seem desirable to the entertainment of the occasion. Standing in one of the alcoves of the dining-room, they had been unobserved by most of the company until the sweet harmony of that fine Gregorian chant stole through the room. Then ex- planations passed from one to another of the guests, and there was a call for more singing. Along with other pieces, “John Brown” was given, awakening that special enthusiasm with which English hearers have always received it. The Prince of Wales, looking over the book of songs, called for “ No more auction-block for me and Mrs. Gladstone asked, as a special favor to the Grand Duchess Czarevna, whose imperial father-in-law had emancipated the serfs in Russia, that “John Brown” might be re- peated. Special interest was manifested in the Singers, and many questions were asked of them, and many encouraging words spoken by the distin- guished guests. Among those present, beside the royal family, were the Duke of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Earl Granville, and other members of the nobility; Count Munster, Mr. Motley, and other representatives of the diplomatic corps; the Hon. John Bright, the Bishop of Win- chester — son of the great Wilberforce, Mrs. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, and others. But this was not all of their good fortune at the hands of the Prime Minister. A few days after a note was received, in which Mr. Gladstone said, “ I beg you to accept the assurances of the great pleas- ure which the Jubilee Singers gave on Monday to GUESTS OF MR. GLADSTONE. 53 our illustrious guests, and to all who heard them. I should wish to offer a little present in books in ac- knowledgment of their kindness, and in connection with the purposes, as they have announced, of their visit to England. It has occurred to me that per- haps they might like to breakfast with us, my family and a very few friends, but I would not ask this unless it is thoroughly agreeable to them/’ The note closed with suggesting a day on which he would be glad to entertain the party. The invitation was of course gladly accepted. Aside from the especial help it might give them in their immediate work, it was felt that such atten- tions to a company of colored people, just out of bondage, by the Prime Minister of Great Britain, was a rebuke to the caste spirit in America that would do great good. Their first visit to Carlton House Terrace was to entertain its guests, now they were to be themselves its guests. Mr. Gladstone had spent the night at Chiselhurst, and was in such poor health that he had, by his physician’s order, excused himself from attending the banquet to be given at the Mansion House that evening by the Lord Mayor to the Ministry. Nevertheless, he rode in twenty-five miles that morning to keep his appointment to meet his negro friends at breakfast. Several members of the Cabinet and of Parliament, with ladies of the nobility, were also among the guests. The Singers were distributed between them at the table, and were the recipients of the kind and assiduous attentions of all. Writing an account of the occasion for the New York Indepmdent , the Rev. Newman Hall, alluding to the color prejudices 54 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. of so many Americans, said: “ I wish they had been present yesterday, to see Mrs. Gladstone and her daughters, and the noble lords and ladies present, taking their negro friends by the hand, placing them chairs, sitting at their side, pouring out their tea, etc., and conversing with them in a manner utterly free from any approach either to pride or condescen- sion ; but exactly as if they had been white people in their own rank in life. And this not as an effort, nor for the show of it, but from a habit of social intercourse which would have rendered any other conduct perfectly impossible.” After breakfast Mr. Gladstone showed to his guests some of the principal objects of interest in his collection of art treasures, explaining them in his fascinating style. “ Then,” to quote Mr. Hall’s account once more, “all the party being gathered in the drawing-room, the Jubilee Singers entertained us with their wonderful music. First we had ‘ John Brown.’ I never heard them sing it as they did yesterday. It was not the music alone, but the features of the singers also which made it so im- pressive. Their eyes flashed ; their countenances told of reverence and joy and gratitude to God. Never shall I forget Mr. Gladstone’s rapt, enthusi- astic attention. His form was bent forward, his eyes were riveted ; all the intellect and soul of his great nature seemed expressed in his countenance ; and when they had finished he kept saying, ‘ Isn’t it wonderful ? I never heard anything like it ! ’ The tender, thrilling words and music of ‘ Oh, how I love Jesus !’ brought tears to the eyes of the listeners; and when they closed with the Lord’s Prayer, all DINNER OF THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION 55 the company, led by Mr. Gladstone, reverently stood with bowed heads in worship. “Just before leaving the room, they sang, ‘ Good- by, brother ; good-by, sister ; ’ which went to every heart. As brothers and sisters, the Premier and Mrs. Gladstone, with their guests, bade them fare- well. It was just noon when we passed through the hall, where several persons were waiting on official business to see the Premier, who, doubtless, from that time till late at night was anxiously occupied with public affairs, but whose morning was given up to his negro friends with such heartiness and leis- ure of mind that a stranger might suppose he was, of all present, the one whose time was most his own.” Subsequently Mr. Gladstone sent them a valuable present of books for the University library ; as did Mr. Motley, in accordance with a promise made to them on their first visit to Carlton House Terrace. Several other occasions served to introduce the Singers to the public, in a way that gave them spe- cial assistance in their work afterwards. By the kind assistance of Dr. Allon, and one or two other friends, arrangements were made for them to appear at the annual dinner of the Congregational Union. Six or seven hundred leading ministers and laymen from all parts of the kingdom were present, and gave rapturous applause to one after another of the songs. As at Oberlin, this served as a favorable in- troduction to the denomination throughout the whole country. The promises of cooperation were many, and were well kept. At the anniversary of the Freedmen’s Missions 56 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. Aid Society the Singers were advertised as one of the attractions, and the hall was much too small, to hold all who came. Lord Shaftesbury presided. The venerable Dr. Moffat was among the speakers, and eloquently testified to the renewed hope he had for Africa as he listened to the Jubilee Singers. He had been “holding his tiny rushlight amidst the desolations of that continent, and holding it with the feeling that his efforts were almost futile.” But as he thought of the trained missionaries who might yet be raised up among the emancipated slaves of America, he saw light ahead. Here again the “John Brown” song electrified the audence. As the stir- ring refrain rang out, “ John Brown died that the slave might be free ! M the dense audience rose to their feet, hats and hand- kerchiefs waved in the air, and the deafening ap- plause was kept up until the Singers answered with “ God Save the Queen.” The American Missionary Association, in its work among the freedmen, had always taken strong ground against the use of liquor— a position which Chris- tian people in England do not always take. The National Temperance League therefore looked upon the Singers as allies in its work, and gave them a cordial welcome to their annual soiree at the Cannon Street Terminus Hotel. Such was the eagerness to hear them, after they had filled the parts assigned them on the programme, that the other exercises were shortened to give them more time for singing. At the great annual fete of the League at the Crystal Palace in July, the free use of the opera- A PERPLEXING QUESTION. 57 house was tendered to the Singers for a concert, and all the advertising was done for them by the committee, without charge. The great event of this occasion, which was attended by thousands of excursionists from all parts of the kingdom, was the concert given in the central transept, by a choir of five thousand children, under the management of Mr. Frederick Smith. The audience was immense. At the close of the programme the Jubilees came upon the platform and sang one or two songs. One of them, of course, was “ John Brown,” and at the last verse Mr. Smith suddenly rapped up his army of singers to join in the chorus. The effect was very fine, and the song closed with round after round of long-continued applause. These occasions, however, added little to the Ju- bilee Fund, valuable as they were in the way of ad- vertising for their future work. The best method of raising money was, in fact, a perplexing question. Friends generally advised free concerts with collec- tions at the close. But experience with this plan in America was not at all encouraging. And, with one or two exceptions, in the few cases where it was tried the collection did not usually yield them more than one half as much as would have been received if the same audience had paid the common price for tickets. One of these exceptions was a concert of a semi-private character, planned by Dr. Allon, and given in his chapel at Islington. Special cards of invitation were sent out, on which the mission of the Singers was explained, and the fact stated that a contribution would be taken up for their work. Of this concert Dr. Allon wrote to Rev. Henry Ward 58 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. Beecher: “The desire to hear them was so great that three times the number of tickets printed were applied for. There was a great and most enthu- siastic crowd. The collection produced about £%o. Since then the interest in them has been growing, and they will certainly have a hearty reception now that they are about to visit the provincial cities and towns of the kingdom. Their songs produce a strange, weird effect. Notwithstanding the oc- casional dash of negro familiarity and quaintness of expression, they are full of religious earnestness and pathos, and one loses all sense of oddity in the feel- ing of real and natural piety. It will greatly help them that their performance is such as the most fas- tidious will not hesitate to welcome in our churches.” Dr. Allon’s high standing, both as a Christian min- ister and as an editor of works to promote the ser- vice of song in the churches, gave to his testimony special value. The singing in the Nonconformist churches being generally congregational, there seemed to be no opportunity for the Singers to take that special part in the Sabbath services to which they had become so much accustomed in America, and in which it was believed that they had done no little good. An invitation from Rev. Newman Hall, therefore, to sing at his morning service in Surrey Chapel was specially welcome as opening the way to such work. They were seated near the pulpit, and their singing both before and after the sermon seemed to be re- garded by the congregation as every way befitting the Lord’s house and its worship. There were special reasons why it would be better AT MR. SPURGEON'S TABERNACLE. $9 to give concerts in public halls, where the people of all denominations could meet on a common footing and with equal interest in the work. But it was foreseen that it would often be impossible to secure suitable assembly-rooms of this sort. And as it was by.no means common to open even Nonconformist chapels to gatherings where an admission fee was charged, Mr. Hall was again of timely service to the company by his offer of Surrey Chapel to them for a paid concert. A crowded audience attended, and the precedent thus established was of much value. Concerts were given in these days at St. James’s Hall and other places of repute for first-class enter, tainments. But the expenses were so large as to eat up most of the receipts. The concerts in chap- els paid better, enlisting as they did, in the case of strong city churches, a corps of co-workers in the congregation who were usually sure to fill the house. The most notable of these was the one given in Mr. Spurgeon’s Tabernacle. Mr. Spurgeon had signified, in his hearty way, his interest in their mission, and had tendered them the use of his large church. The Sunday previous to the concert they attended service there, and at the close tarried to shake hands with the great preacher. While wait- ing their turn in the room adjoining that where Mr. Spurgeon receives his visitors, some of the people present asked for a song. The Singers, with tender and earnest feeling, sang, “ O brothers, don’t stay away.” They had scarcely finished when Mr. Spur- geon summoned them into his room. He had heard the song, and was so affected by it that he wanted 6o THE JUBILEE SINGERS. •% them to attend the evening service and repeat it there. “ I do not know whether you will approve or not,” he said to his people in commencing the service, “ but it seems to me it is the right thing, and I will take the risk. After the morning service I heard the Jubilee Singers sing a piece, ‘O brothers, don’t stay away, for my Lord says there’s room enough in the heavens for you.’ I found tears coming in my eyes ; and looking at my deacons I found theirs very moist too. That song suggested my text and my sermon to-night. Now as a part of the sermon, I am going to ask them to sing it, for they preach in the singing ; and may the Spirit of God send home this word to some to-night — some who may remember their singing if they forget my preach- ing.” Then followed the singing, so clear and strong as to reach every person in the great audience of five or six thousand people, and Mr. Spurgeon preached with great effect from the text, “ It is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.” In giving notice of the concert on Wednesday, he added the exhortation, “ O brothers, don’t stay away.” And his counsel was well heeded. It was advertised that the doors would be open at seven o’clock, but long before that the crowds about the gates were such that it was necessary to open them to avoid blockad- ing the street, and the attendance was estimated at seven thousand. Every song, with the inspiration and enthusiasm of such an audience, was a triumph. At the close, Mr. Spurgeon said : “ Now our friends are going to Scotland, and I have told them to come INVITATION TO COME AGAIN. 6 1 here and hold their first concert when they return to London. They have come to Great Britain to raise ^6000: they will do it; and if they want £6000 more, let them come back to this country again, and we will give it to them.” CHAPTER VIII. A BUSY WINTER IN GREAT BRITAIN. The Singers had spent over three months in Lon- don, and arrangements were now made for a tour in Scotland, with a visit to a few of the larger cities on the way. Hull, the birthplace of Wilberforce, was reached, by a pleasant coincidence, on the first of August, the anniversary of emancipation in the British colonies. Here it was decided to try the plan adopted at Dr. Allon’s chapel in Islington, and find how it would work in the provinces. Fifteen hundred invitations to a concert in the Hope Street Chapel were sent out to those most likely to be interested. The col- lection, which seemed a very large one to the friends who had charge of the arrangements, amounted to about £^ 2 . When it was explained that not less than ;£ioo ought to be realized from each evening’s work, if the mission to Great Britain was to be a success, some of the good friends insisted on another trial, with an admission fee. When the time came, Hengler’s Cirque, in spite of a rainy evening, and to the delight of all, was crowded, and the receipts were £140. Sitting by his window at the hotel in Hull on Sunday evening, and noting the tide of people flow- OFF FOR SCOTLAND. 63 mg idly by, Mr. White proposed an extempore relig- ious service for their benefit. Taking the base of the King William monument as a platform, Mr. Pike preached and the Singers sang of the love of Christ to a crowd that filled the street, farther than the voice of either speaker or singer could be heard. Tears trickled down the cheeks of many to whom the sound of prayer or religious song was apparently almost unknown. In Scarborough, a free concert yielded a collection of about ^90 and on Sunday the Singers sang, in a heavy rain, to a Sunday-school gathering of four thousand people on the green. At Newcastle, Rev. H. T. Robjohns had so thoroughly worked up the public interest that every seat was sold before it was time for the concert to commence. At Sunderland, Moody and Sankey had been holding meetings not long before, at the beginning of what afterwards be- came such a famous work, and the special interest thus awakened in religious song prepared the way for the Singers. J. Candlish, Esq., M.P., presided, the ministers of the different denominations were advertised as patrons, and the large Victoria Hall was filled before many who wished to attend could obtain admission. Lord Shaftesbury, with characteristic kindness and foresight, had given the Singers a cordial letter of introduction to his friend, John Burns, Esq., of the Cunard Steamship Line, at Glasgow. Mr. Burns’s sympathies were at once awakened, and he arranged for a garden party at Castle Wemyss, his residence on Wemyss Bay. Invitations were sent out to four hundred persons of prominence and influence in 64 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. the west of Scotland ; and Lord Shaftesbury, who was also present, made a very effective appeal for their cooperation in promoting the mission of the Singers. To crown these helpful efforts to forward their work in Scotland, his lordship placed in Mr. Pike’s hands, before their departure from Castle Wemyss, letters of introduction to the Lord Provost of Glas- gow, and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Their contents were at that time unknown. Least of all was it suspected that they contained a proposal that the authorities of Glasgow and Edinburgh should vote a welcome to the Singers, and bring them be- fore the public under the auspices of the “ Lord Provost, the magistrates, and the Town Council” of these two leading cities ! Reports of this gath- ering at Castle Wemyss had prominent place in the daily papers, kindling a general desire to hear the Singers. A series of successful concerts followed. At Largs the pastor of the Established (Presbyterian) Church set a desirable precedent by opening his church for a concert with an admission fee. The city authori- ties at Greenock gave the Singers the use of the town hall, which holds two thousand people. It was densely crowded on two evenings with audi- ences as sympathetic and enthusiastic as could be desired. As this was the season when many of the people of the larger towns in Scotland were at the summer resorts, it was decided to pay a short visit to Ireland. Letters from Mr. Burns, and the indorsement of the Hon. George H. Stuart, who is held in high regard THE RECEPTION AT EDINBURGH. 65 tn that country of his birth, prepared the people to welcome them. Dr. Henry, President of Queen’s College, presided at the first concert in Ulster Hall, Belfast, and Rev. William Johnson, the Moderator of the General Assembly, aided heartily in the sub- sequent work there. At Londonderry their wel- come accorded with the historic fame of that old, liberty-loving town, so foremost in Protestant zeal and good works. Returning to Scotland, they were met with the announcement that the authorities of Glasgow had acted upon Lord Shaftesbury’s suggestion, and voted to invite them to give a concert at the city hall under their official patronage. Looking backward to the bondage and ostracism that was still so fresh in their memory, such a thing, in that great city of five hundred thousand people, seemed almost in- credible. The city hall was full. The Lord Provost presided, and beside him, on the platform, sat the magistrates and leading clergymen of the city. The Singers were eager to do their best, and the Lord Provost in his closing remarks declared that he “ never attended a more delightful meeting.” Their reception at Edinburgh was equally hearty and inspiring. The authorities gave them a vote of welcome. The Lord Provost presided at their first concert, and afterwards gave a dinner-party in their honor at his own residence. At Paisley a most helpful friend was found in Sir Peter Coats, whose name as a thread manufacturer is a household word throughout the world, but whose highest praise where he is personally known is his Christian philanthropy. He entertained the Singers at his country-house on 5 66 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. the banks of the “ bonny Doon,” piloted them in visits to the many places of historic and poetic in- terest in that vicinity, attended personally to the preliminary arrangements for and presided at their concert. At Kilmarnock, Ayr, Aberdeen, Perth, Dundee, and other cities, concerts were given that were a series of triumphs. Many presents were made in money and books for the University, and the peo- ple everywhere vied with each other in showing a most gracious hospitality. From the first the Jubilee music was more or less of a puzzle to the critics; and even among those who sympathized with their mission, there was no little difference of opinion as to the artistic merit of their entertainments. Some could not understand the reason for enjoying so thoroughly, as almost every one did, these simple, unpretending songs. This criticism led to the publication, by Mr. Colin Brown, Ewing Lecturer on Music in the Andersonian Univer- sity, Glasgow, of a series of articles, analyzing this style of music, in which he said : “ The highest triumph of art is to be natural. The singing of these strangers is so natural that it does not at once strike us how much of true art is in it, and how careful and discriminating has been the training bestowed upon them by their accomplished instructor and leader, who, though retiring from public notice, deserves great praise. Like the Swedish melodies of Jenny Lind, it gives a new musical idea. It has been well remarked that in some respects it disarms criticism, in others it may be truly said that it almost defies it. It was beautifully described by a simple Highland girl, — ‘ It filled my whole heart ! * The richness and REVIVAL LABORS WITH MR. MOODY, 67 purity of tone, both in melody and harmony, the contrast of light and shade, the varieties of gentle- ness and grandeur in expression, and the exquisite refinement of th being then quite old and having laboured so con- GEORGIA NA E. FOWLER. 113 tinuously, the brave woman’s health began to fail, so that she could not help Agnes as she had the others. But Agnes inherited somewhat of her mother’s energy and ambition, and after her mother’s health gave way she pushed on alone, and was thus enabled to complete, not only the course at Fisk University, but also to obtain some voice culture as well. It was the evening she graduated from the normal course at Fisk University that Mr. Loudin heard her sing, and wished her to become a member of his organisation. Longing to repay in some degree her mother for the care and labour bestowed on her children, and seeing that she could best do this by accepting the offer made, Agnes became one of the Jubilee Singers. GEORGIANA E. Fowler is a native of Savannah, Georgia. Losing her parents when very young she has but a faint recollection of them, and knows but little of their early history, save that they were born under the yoke of slavery. When four years of age her mother died, and she was given to a friend of her mother’s, who cared for her and sent her to school when a few years older. This was done only at the cost of con- siderable toil and many sacrifices ; but the friend proved true to her trust, Georgie was kept at school until able to help herself, which she did by dressmaking. When but a little child, Georgie showed a love for music, in the lullabys she used to sing to her doll, and this talent was fostered by friends, who, though 8 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. 1 14 unable to help her to any cultivation of the voice, yet enjoyed her singing. She early became a Christian, and, on uniting with the Church, also became a leading member of the choir, and continued such until she joined the present company of Jubilee Singers. William Early’s parents were both slaves in Georgia and were sold into Mississippi. Their owners were very cruel people, his mother even now bearing marks of the beatings she received. She has told William of how, when she was sold, she was stripped to the waist for purchasers to examine her body, to see if she was sound in all respects, so as to be a good bargain ; and how they opened her mouth to be assured that her teeth were good ; and, finally, how they made her walk up and down in order to show “ how she picked up her feet.” This slave-woman’s husband, after being repeatedly punished, ran away at the beginning of the war, and for a long time lived in the woods for fear of being killed. He ultimately succeeded in getting possession of his wife, and they made their way to Augusta, Georgia, where William was born. It was a hard struggle for a long time to get along ; but by strenuous efforts the poor fugitives managed to send William for a time to school ; but as soon as he was old enough to work he was obliged to give up books and learning for other things. Still, he obtained some education while working at anything he could get to do, with his father’s help. He early showed a love for music, and would take part in all the musical JOHN L. A. LANE— MAGGIE E. WILSON. 1 1 5 events among the colored people in Augusta. He joined the present company of Jubilee Singers in 1895. John L. A. Lane’s father was a slave, born in Loudon Co., Virginia. His mother was a free woman. Often does his father tell his children of the cruel treatment he received from his master ; how he used to be beaten, and then how salt was rubbed into the sores caused by the whip. He finally ran away and went to Georgetown, where John was born. John went to school until he was old enough to go to work. He partly learned the trade of a carpenter ; but all spare time was devoted to music, of which he was passionately fond. Having a good tenor voice he was greatly in demand for all the amateur musical entertainments given among his people. Mr. Loudin heard him sing, and liking his voice, engaged him as a member of the company of Jubilee Singers in 1885. He has remained with them ever since that date. Maggie E. Wilson was born of slave parents, who were born in Prince George’s Co., Md., and who were Emancipated after the civil war. Maggie was the thirteenth child, and her home was in Washington, D.C., where she was educated. The father, being shrewd and industrious, determined that he would buy a house, and made one payment on a small suitable homestead. As a result of an accident he died within a year after, however, leaving his wife with nine small children and the house unpaid for. THE JUBILEE SINGERS. ii 6 To rear and send to school so many little one- being no easy task, Mrs. Wilson experienced a hard struggle in getting bread for the large household ; and at the same time, not being able to make any further payment, lost the home she had so earnestly hoped to call her own. As the elder children grew able to work, her task lightened somewhat ; but to her great sorrow she was not able to give them as good a schooling as she had earnestly desired to do. One day Maggie followed some children into the schoolhouse, and remained until the pupils were dis- missed. After that adventure she insisted upon being sent to school, and the elder children united with the mother in trying to give the youngest child that edu- cation which they had failed to obtain for themselves. As the young people were not able to earn very much, the weight of the burden fell upon the already overtaxed mother, who struggled on, toiling from early dawn till late into the night to keep hunger at bay, and at the same time to keep Maggie at school. Maggie’s desire to learn encouraged the whole family in their efforts, and they one and all deprived themselves of almost every comfort that the child might be benefited. Being always fond of singing, Maggie took a pro- minent part in the choir of the church she attended, until, in 1882, she became a member of the company of Jubilee Singers, and she has remained such until the present time. In this congenial situation Maggie has been able to provide for her now aged mother, Mrs. Wilson being at the present time seventy-five years of age. The PEARL M. CRAWFORD. 11/ daughter thus makes a good return for the sacrifices that were cheerfully made on her account in earlier days. PEARL M. Crawford’s parents were slaves in Athens, Alabama. After the Emancipation they moved to Huntsville, in the same State, where Pearl was born. In 1877 they settled at Memphis, Tennessee, where soon after they died of yellow fever, which was then raging, leaving three children, Pearl and two younger brothers. Mrs. Hayes, a widow, sister-in-law of Mrs. Crawford, took the children and cared for them, as if they were her own. Mrs. Hayes’ husband had been employed by a Mr. Menkin as a carter, and at Hayes’ death his widow, though totally uneducated, continued to carry on his work, although many efforts were made to supplant her. But Mr. Menkin, who came from the North to Memphis, had sympathy for a woman who had these three orphan children to care for, and so continued to employ her. Men would often apply for this work, offering to do it cheaper, and asking why it was given to a Negro woman; but by earnest pleadings and careful attention Mrs. Hayes succeeded in keeping her work. From a child, as soon as she learned how to count, Pearl used to help her aunt to keep the accounts ; and, therefore, although there were several teams employed, Mrs. Hayes kept the business straight, to the entire satisfaction of her employer ; thus being able to fulfil the promise made to Mrs. Crawford that the children should not be separated. So Mrs. Hayes worked on, keeping the children 1 1 8 THE JUBILEE SINGERS. at their books, until Pearl (who often had to be away from school on account of other work) graduated from the normal department of the Lemoyne Institute, which was under that Society which has done, and is still doing, so much for Negro education — the American Missionary Association. After leaving school Pearl taught in the public school at Memphis until she joined the Singers. Fisk University, still the embodiment of all that represents the uplifting of the Negro race in America, has more than doubled its capacity and trebled the number of its students ; the average attendance being over five hundred. Hundreds are anxiously wishing to enter, and are only hindered by inability to raise even the small amount needed for the course. There is no abatement of the desire for education ; but, owine to great financial depression in the United States, the American Missionary Association, which has the University in charge, is obliged to curtail expenses rather than extend its enterprise, although such extension is urgently needed. Additional buildings added to the first Jubilee Hall, are Livingstone Hall, now fully occupied, a Theo- logical Hall, Gymnasium, a Model School, Magnolia Cottage, for lodging accommodation, and a beautiful Chapel, called Fisk Memorial, after the late Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, being paid for by a legacy left by the General. To these is now being added a much- needed home for President Cravath, who hitherto has been compelled to occupy rooms in Jubilee Hall. It would gratify those who have contributed to the University could they see the progress made, and FISK UNIVERSITY. 1 19 take account of the vast benefits, spiritual, physical, and literary, which the Institution has been enabled to bestow. Since 1878, when the University ceased to use the Jubilee Singers as a means of revenue, the Trustees have depended almost entirely upon the generosity of friends for support, there being practically no endow- ment. Occasionally students have been sent out to deepen the interest of the public in the Institution by telling of its work and singing the melodies of the South ; for as the work extends the need for help becomes proportionately greater. SUPPLEMENT. BY F. J. LOUDIN. 1 * CHAPTER X. THE NEW MANAGEMENT. With this chapter begins a new epoch in the u Story of the Jubilee Singers.” Hitherto, the triumphs and wonderful achieve- ments had been accomplished under the direction and management of the so-called dominant race, but in September, 1882, a Negro steps to the helm and henceforth directs the now famous Jubilee Craft. He fully realized that it was no easy task to come out of the ranks, where he had been 011 equal terms with the rest of the company, and take command ; that it would greatly damage the cause of the Negro, if, under the management of one of the race, there should be in any respect a failure, and how thousands, who have no confidence in the leadership of the Black Man, would say significant- ly, “I told you so,” or “I knew it.” Many were the predictions which came to our ears of the utter failure of the company under the new management. In May, 1882, Mr. White, who had been manag- ing the company since 1879, told us, when disband- ing for the season, that he saw no prospect of keeping the company together longer, and I was urged by some of the members, who, with myself, thought the work of the Singers not ended, to take T 24 THE NEW MANAGEMENT. the management and direction of the company. Having waited until the latter part of August in the vain hope that Mr. White would again take up the work, I set about the task of re-organization. Not quite all were willing to continue in the company under the new conditions and the task of filling those places thus made vacant, for the time had already passed when, if we were to be in the field, the work of organizing should be complete, was by no means easy. After searching through several states, the va- cancies were well filled and the work of rehearsal began. After nearly a month spent thus, the new parts of the Craft were fitted to their places, and the vessel, with its new helmsman, was, with all sails s'et, soon under way. Two very successful years were spent in the United States and Canada. But a desire for new and greater achievements than the little band had ever won was ever present with me ; but to find a field where this was possible was the perplexing question. It did not seem possible to do this in either Europe or America, for they were neither of them new fields ; so, finally, it was decided to circum- navigate the globe ; and we resolved to sing these sweet, tuneful melodies in lands where they had not yet been heard, and where we were entire strangers. With this end in view, we sailed from New York, April 3, 1884, bound for Great Britain. IN GREAT BRITAIN. ^5 IN GREAT BRITAIN. Landing in Liverpool after a rather rough pas- sage, we went on to London and. found that the “May Meetings,” as the annual gatherings of the various churches and other organizations are called, were already in session. As soon as it was known that we were in the city, invitations came thick and fast for us to take part in these various meetings, only three of which were we able to ac- cept, viz: the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., and the Ereedmen’s Missions Aid Society ; the last was held in Westminster Church, the other two in the great historic Exeter Hall, both buildings being crowded to their utmost capacity. At the Young Women’s meeting, that lamented and beloved Christian nobleman, Lord Shaftesbury, presided. Among the many good things he said, was the following: “ He had never hoped to see such a grand sight as that before him. Some of the Jubilee Singers had borne the yoke of servitude, which, by the mercy of God, had been broken; and the use they made of their liberty was to devote their talents and energies in the earlier part of their career to help their kith and kindred. Some of them were old friends of his. It had now come to pass that colored people came to England to advance the temporal and eternal interests of the white popu- lation. God forbid that we should hear any more of that blasphemous nonsense, that there was any 1 26 IN GREAT BRITAIN. material difference between races redeemed by the same Savior and destined to the same immortality. He had derived great benefit from the meeting and enjoyed a rich and happy treat.” Our agent being new to the work and to the country, made the very sad mistake of booking us in the South instead of the North of Great Britain, when at this season of the year it was so warm that all indoor entertainments were failures, and our concerts were no exceptions, so that our losses up to the close of the season, July 6, amounted to several thousand dollars. A vacation of six weeks, which w r as spent in Scarborough, the “ Queen of Watering Places,” as its surpassing beauty entitles it to be called, followed. Notwithstanding our most pleasant surroundings, they were anxious weeks as we looked forward to the outcome of the approaching season, for which plans were formulated and engagements made. A new difficulty arose at this point. An agent, who had been discharged before leaving America, and a man for whom we had given a number of concerts, were taking advantage of our absence from the country to organize a company which they called “ The Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers,” and were making advances through an approachable member of our company, to several others, by offering them increased pay to return and join them. All with one exception refused, being thoroughly loyal to the management. The knowledge of this treachery did not come to me IN GREAT BRITAIN . 127 until within a week or ten days before the time for beginning the season’s work, when it was an- nounced at morning rehearsal that he and one of my principal singers were about to leave. This meant a delay of about a month in getting new singers and an additional two or three weeks to fit them in their places ; and the breaking of more than a score of good contracts, making myself liable for damages ; besides the additional expense of an idle company, to which, in order that the situation may be appreciated, the losses already incurred must be added. After a long, exhausting discussion with the par- ties, I succeeded in showing the one whom I want- ed to retain, and who was an excellent singer, the dishonor of such action, and he agreed to remain. September found us in excellent condition and a bright prospect before us, which gave vigor to our work. Our third concert was at Hull, where we sang to an audience of over five thousand in Hengler’s Circus, sharing the proceeds with a Methodist Church. The next appointment was at the old historic city of York, where we had one of the grandest array of patrons the company had ever been hon- ored with at any single concert. It was given in the “ Festival Concert Room,” September 4. Among those under whose patronage and in whose presence the concert was given were the Earl and Countess of Zetland, Rord and Rady Wenlock, Sir 128 IN GREAT BRITAIN. F. G. Milne, Bart., M. P., and Lady Milne, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, the Sheriff of York, Major-Gen. Willis, C. B., and Mrs. Willis, Major-Gen. Nason and Mrs. Nason, the ex-Lord Mayor and Mrs. T. Varey, Sir Janies Meek, Rev. Canon Fleming, B. D., and thirty-one other distinguished personages of York and vicin- ity. An enormous crowd filled every available space in the concert room. So greatly were the people pleased that they demanded a second con- cert, which was given at a later date. We pass over many interesting events, as space compels us to do so, and take the reader with us to Chillingham Castle, in the North of England, the home of the Earl of Tankerville. The Earl and the Countess of Tankerville are among the most active Christians of that region. The old castle dates back well nigh a thousand years, and we had been invited here to stay from Saturday till Monday. We went there on the 4th of October. The day was beautiful, and the estate of nearly two thou- sand acres, in the midst of which the castle stands, was decked in all its autumnal beauty. The native cattle, white in color and in a wild state, which are found on this estate and that of the Duke of Hamilton’s only, number nearly one hundred head. They have about seven hundred acres of a deer park through which to roam. It seemed like a dream to us that we, who had been, and still are, driven from so many hotels in IN GREAT BRITAIN. 129 the “ Sweet Land of Liberty ” because of our color ; and some, too, who had been born in slavery, should now be entertained by an Earl for three days in his home. What took place on Sunday I will let his lordship tell. In a letter he wrote to a friend the next day, and which by permission was published in a paper called “ The Service for the King,” (I regret that space will not permit the entire article to be published,) he says : “ Yesterday was such a day as Chillingham never saw before — the old castle turned into an impromptu cathedral was fairly taken by storm — a vast mul- titude having gathered to hear the Jubilee Singers and their touching hymns, which we thought might be turned to good account in connection with an address from Mr. Stevenson Blackwood, who was here with us. We fancied that the court-yard” (a large square, 011 the four sides of which the castle with its four corner towers is built) “ would be large enough for any number who were in reach, but when the gates were opened the first rush filled it, and they still came pouring in like a river ; so I desired them to go up the tower staircases and man the battlements, which made excellent galler- ies — but still more came, some of whom were al- lowed to go into all the rooms looking into the court. “ The scene was very striking, all these crowds of faces so intent, so quiet, so orderly. Still, there were many who were disappointed, for we expected perhaps five or six hundred, and there were, I am told, upwards of two thousand. Q 130 IN GREAT BRITAIN. “ The distances they came from were out of all calculation ; some as far as Rothbury and the sea- side ; and from Wooler and Belford in quantities. “ From the stone steps, in the centre of one side of the court, which lead up to the Hall, there was a platform raised for the Singers, and from which Mr. Blackwood spoke. After settling the crowd, who marshalled themselves to order like soldiers, the Jubilee Singers began. Yon heard only a faint note in unison, like the wind among leaves, which resolved itself into a beautiful chord on an Aeolian harp, and then they swelled their voices into full song. The hymn, “ My Redeemer,” was most im- pressive, and when it died away you might have heard a pin drop. “ Mr. Blackwood then began, and was splendid , fixing the whole audience, although nine-tenths of them only came to hear the Jubilee Singers. vl * vL» vL» vL* vp “ The elements, too, were under command, for though we are now late in the season for fine weather and subject to equinoctial gales, the day was as bright and still as any summer’s day that we have had ; and though boys and men were perched upon all the tower tops and rickety old battlements, not an accident or contretemps of any kind occurred, while 2,000 people wandered at will through all the gardens and flower beds, and never trod upon one or gathered a single flower, though there was no one to hinder them. About sixty or eighty came afterwards into the Hall, before finally IN GREAT BRITAIN 131 going away, where we had a parting prayer with them. * * * * * * “ I conld not help thinking when that weird music chimed in so meltingly, that these songs of their captivity (as they call them) might have been something of an echo of the songs of the captive children of Israel, when they hung their harps on the willows, and wept by the waters of Babylon ; and their songs, if they could have been handed down to us, must have been most beautiful, for the Jews are the first musicians and the first composers in the world. But as song, like poetry, is the out- come of the passions, whether of joy or of sorrow, all the world over, these wild, plaintive hymns, longing to be away in the Home to come, might have some resemblance to those of ages past, as ‘ like causes produce like effects.’ “Altogether, our October 5th was a very mem- orable one, and I do hope and believe will be a day to be remembered by many, who went away with very different thoughts than those they came with ; and certainly these old walls never saw such a day.” It was evident now that the tide had set in in our favor and success followed success from day to day and from month to month. February 17 we sang in Hengler’s Circus in Liverpool, before an audience numbering nearly seven thousand. The concert was given under the auspices of the Y. W. C. A. of Gordon Hall. It was a most enthusiastic audience 132 IN GREAT BRITAIN. and the bursts of applause which followed many of the pieces fairly shook the great building. This was the largest audience where an admis- sion fee was charged to which the Jubilee Singers had ever sung. Of this concert, the Liverpool Courier of the 18th, among other things, said : u The Jubilee Singers are not a numerically strong choir, but long association, careful practice, and above all a deep sympathy with their songs have brought the members individually and collectively to a high state of perfection. The peculiar weird- ness which characterizes many of their songs, the richness and yet softness and simplicity of the melodies and the exquisite taste and feeling with which they are rendered, combine to give any audience who have had the pleasure of listening to them a rare musical treat, and such was the concert last night. “Frequently throughout the evening the Singers had to respond to demands for repetition, and this they did with a pleasure the sincerity of which was evident to all the listeners.” IN IRELAND. On each former occasion the Jubilee Singers had visited only a few of the larger towns of Ireland, and these only in the North, for the reason they feared that the towns and cities where Roman Catholicism predominated would not give paying audiences, but it was resolved to try it, and the re- sults fully justified the venture ; for we were IN GREAT BRITAIN. *33 greeted almost universally with good houses of very enthusiastic people. Queenstown, Cork, and many other of the southern towns were visited with good results. At Abbey Leix, we had the honor of the patronage of the Viscount and Lady De Vesci, who attended the concert, accompanied by Lady Ken- mare, wife of Baron Kenmare, of Killarney House, Killarney Co. We were honored with an invitation to lunch the next day with Lady De Vesci at her beautiful home. Lady Kenmare was also present and invited us to Killarney House, should we visit that most charming part of the Emerald Isle, putting one of her cottages and a yacht at our disposal during our stay ; but time would not permit us to accept her most cordial invitation, much to our regret. CHAPTER II. BOUND BOR THU ANTIPODES. It had been decided to start for the Antipodes in the spring of 1886, so we returned to England in March, after sending our agent on one month in advance, with full instructions. It required no small amount of persuasion to induce all of the Singers to put the earth’s diameter between them- selves and home, and their parents as well to allow them to go so far from the parental roof. All, however, finally decided to go, with one ex- ception, and his place was filled by a young man from Georgia. We reached London about March 27, and the next four days were very busy ones, as the reader may know, getting things together ready for a start. Five thousand copies of the u Story of the Jubilee Singers” had to be shipped, as well as eight or nine hundred dollars’ worth of various kinds of printed matter which, as was learned afterward, could have been done as well, if not so cheaply, in Australia as in England. Numerous friends came to say farewell and wish us God-speed, one of our old friends, Richard Johnson, coming all the way from Manchester for that purpose. OUR VOYAGE . I 35 OUR VOYAGE. April i st found us astir, bright and early, and on our way to the railway station, where we took the train which conveyed ns to the great Albert docks, some dozen miles down the Thames. Arriving at the docks, our party, save myself, saw for the first time the beautiful staunch steamer “ Orient,” of the Orient line of steamers, which was to be our ocean home for the next six weeks. It was, up to this time, the finest ship we had ever made a voyage upon. There were twelve of our party and the fare alone was about three hundred dollars each, beside the agent, who had already gone. One might have thought we were leaving home rather than going from one foreign country to an- other, from the large number of dear English friends who were down to bid us good-bye. Promptly at ten o’clock, the appointed time, the lines were hauled in and the ponderous 5,000 horse-power engines began their motion, and we were on our way to the “ Eand of the Golden Fleece.” The voyage was most pleasant and interesting. The death of an infant and the breaking of a leg by a third-class passenger made up the chapter of accidents during the voyage. I shall try to tell in another book some of the interesting events of this voyage, and here mention only the detour made by some half-dozen of our company to Cairo OUR VOYAGE. 136 during the two days our ship took to pass through the Suez Canal, one of the greatest events of our lives up to the present. At the end of forty-four days our ship lay alongside the wharf at Williamstown, the port of Melbourne. The long association on shipboard had made for us many friends. There was none of that insolent color prejudice to confront us, as we were the only Americans on board. We had been asked by the “ Aged Seamen’s Home,” of Liverpool, to give a concert on the way out. We did so, and the lady passengers managed the financial part by selling programs, which they printed and ornamented. The net results were something over $150, which amount the purser re- mitted to the “Home.” Before leaving the ship on the morning of May 14, 1886, the following was handed to me by a committee of our fellow passengers : A. A. “Orient” May ij ) 1886. To F. J. Loudin , Esq., Dear Sir : — We cannot allow our voyage in the S. S. “Orient” to terminate without tendering to you and the other members of the Fisk Jubilee Singers our best thanks for your unremitting efforts to contribute to our entertainment during the six weeks we have been together. You have at all times been ready to assist in making the evenings pass pleasantly, and with so much cheerfulness have you displayed your ability to entertain that OUR VOYAGE . 137 your presence on board has been most welcome to us all. We also beg to express our high estimation of the character of your musical entertainment as ex- pressive of the religious feeling and the religious life of the colored people while in bondage in the Southern States ; we think the music not only touching and interesting, but unique. We sin- cerely hope that in your visit to the Australian Colonies you will meet with the great success and will receive the high appreciation which, from our experience, we feel sure you most certainly deserve. We are, dear sir, yours very sincerely, Then follow the names of all our fellow passen- gers in the first saloon. CHAPTER III. IN AUSTRALASIA. We landed in Melbourne, the beautiful capital of the colony of Victoria, and found things in a very bad shape for us. Our agent, who had started a month in advance of us, had only been on shore — or rather on the mainland — four days in advance of us, as there had been a case of small-pox on his ship and all had been quarantined for three weeks. We went to the Grand Hotel, the best in Mel- bourne, and in a few days began practice in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, which was very generously placed at our service for that purpose. We can never forget the cordial welcome we re- ceived. Numerous social gatherings were arranged by leading citizens of Melbourne, by members of Parliament and their wives, and by leading mer- chants, until finally the social courtesies culminat- ed in a grand reception and private concert at the Grand Hotel. The invitations sent out were as follows: u The Very Reverend, the Dean of Melbourne, upon be- half of the committee especially formed to welcome the Jubilee Singers to Australia, requests the IN MELBOURNE. *39 pleasure of — company at a private concert and reception, which w T ill be given at the Grand Hotel, on Monday afternoon, 31st May. The chair will be taken at three o’clock by the Very Reverend, the Dean. Morning dress. Car- riages at 4:30 p. m. Committee: The Honorable Jones MacBain, President of the Legislative Council ; the Right Worshipful, the Mayor of Melbourne ; the Very Reverend, the Dean of Melbourne ; the Honorable James Balfour, M. D. C.; the Honorable C. J. Ham, M. L. C.; the Honorable F. C. Beaver, M. L. C.; the Rev. Rentoul, D. D.; the Rev. H. B. Macart- ney, Jr., M. A.; the Rev. H. A. Langley; the Rev. D. S. McEachran ; the Rev. J. Watsford ; the Rev. Wm. Allen; Andrew Harper, Esq.; M. A. Duncan Love, Esq.” The greeting given us on this occasion was most memorable ; more than two hundred of the best people of this wonderful city were present. Gen- tle women and strong men grasped our hands in such a manner as to assure us that, though among strangers in that part of the earth farthest from our homes, we were yet in the midst of warm and true-hearted friends. The singing seemed to touch their hearts, and, indeed, wherever we went through Australia, flowers were strewn along our pathway. Following this came an invitation from Lady Loch to attend her reception at Government House, where we were made most welcome by the Gov- 140 IN AUSTRALASIA. ernor and his estimable wife, and were cordially greeted by those who attended. On the 7th of June, we gave our first concert. We had rented the Town Hall, seating 3,200. His Excellency, the Governor, Sir Henry Loch and Eady Loch, with suite, honored us with their patronage on the opening night. The hall was packed almost to suffocation, as it was also on the twenty-five succeeding nights. Hundreds were frequently turned away. We eclipsed all records of concert companies (jubilee or classical) during our stay in Melbourne, for we gave eighty success- ful concerts during this visit to Melbourne. In each of the capital cities of Australasia, the governors and their wives honored us with their patronage. We sang sixty nights in Sidney, forty in Adelaide, and thirty in Brisbane. We were in beautiful New Zealand seven months, in Tasmania one month — remaining in Australasia altogether three and one-half years. Space will permit the narration of only a few of the more remarkable incidents which were crowded into our visit to Australasia. The aborigines of Australia are said to be the lowest type of the human family ; they are very black, with long, wavy hair and very coarse feat- ures. We were invited by a missionary at Meloga, a Mission Station, to come out and sing to them. We gladly consented, and after a drive of fourteen miles through thickly wooded forests, arrived at the station. We found these black people far from THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA. 141 cordial, in fact they gave us to understand by their actions that they did not wish to have anything to do with us. After we had spent about an hour in- specting their schools, homes, etc., the church bell rang, and when they had assembled we took our places and began to sing that sweetly pathetic song evolved from the crushed hearts of the en- slaved black people of America, “ Steal Away to Jesus.” Up to this time they seemed like unwil- ling children forced to go to Sabbath school ; but what a change of expression the tones of the old slave song awoke ! First, wonder, which seemed to say, “What strange sounds are these which for the first time fall upon our ears? ” then joy, as the full volume of the melody filled the humble little church. The song ended, we sang another, and still others of “ sweetly solemn, wildly sad ” old melodies. “And the song of our devotion Filled their hearts with strange emotion,” for long before the “ Benediction ” had been chant- ed, they were weeping like children, tears of joy ; and when we had finished they gathered about us, and, with tears still flowing, they clasped our hands and in broken accents exclaimed, “ Oh ! God bless you ! we have never heard anything like that before ! ” As we drove away, they climbed upon the fences and up in the trees, and until our car- riages were lost to view, they waved us good-bye. The Maoris of New Zealand are the aboriginal people of those beautiful mountainous islands. 142 THE MAORIS OF NEW ZEALAND. Unlike the aborigines of Australia, they are a strong, vigorous, intelligent people. They seemed to take to us at once, and, though their songs have a limited scale of only three tones, still they were charmed with our music. I have known them to follow us from town to town simply to talk with us and hear us sing. One woman who, with her two children, was on the train with us going to the next town, said to me, u It seems as if your singing makes me crazy ; I have been to two places to hear you sing and I am now going to a third.” Three and a half years were spent among the warm-hearted, go-ahead people of Australasia with as great profit and pleasure to us as in any similar period of our history. CHAPTER IV. FROM AUSTRALASIA TO THE ORIENT. On the 25th of October, we embarked on the magnificent ship “Orizaba,” of the Orient line, home- ward bound via Ceylon. I own it was with rather a sad heart that we bade farewell to our numerous friends in Australasia, although we were homeward bound. Our trip to Ceylon was pleasant and uneventful. On a beautiful morning in November we landed in Columbo, after seventeen days’ sail. Unfortunately, we found that our agent, who had preceded us by a month, was unable to fix a date for us which would suit the date of our arrival and departure, as the only available hall in Columbo had been previously engaged ; so, after three days spent in Ceylon, during which time some of us visited Kandy, about forty miles from Columbo, we left for Calcutta, greatly pleased with what we had seen. A number of Europeans at Columbo were greatly disappointed because we did not give a concert, and, after our arrival, succeeded in having the parties consent to vacate the hall for one night, but fearing the short advertisement would not insure successful results, I declined to give a concert — a decision I have al- 144 IN INDIA. ways regretted, for if not financially successful it would have been a rare experience. Our voyage to Calcutta was a very rough one, as during two days we were on the edge of a cyclonic storm, consequently our arrival was delayed two days ; but our agent, having taken this possibility into account, we arrived a day ahead of our open- ing date. His Excellency, Lord Landsdowne, and his wife accorded us their patronage ; the American consul and wife were also among our distinguished pa- trons. Our audiences were frequently very large and enthusiastic, almost exclusively European and Eurasians, as the natives were but little attracted by us. After a season of about two weeks in the hall, we opened a season of six or eight nights in Bishop Thorburn’s Church, with marked success, and enabled them to free themselves from a debt which had hung over them for years. In Bombay we sang with even greater success, as the Parsees came in large numbers to hear us, and our hall was nightly crowded to its utmost capacity, many persons sitting on the stage behind us. Madras was also one of our most successful points in India. At Agra we had an experience which stands out prominently among our long list of wonderful ex- periences. At Agra is built that wonderful tomb, the Taj -Mahal, acknowledged by the whole world to be the most beautiful monument the earth has yet possessed. Poets and painters alike have AT THE TAJ-MAHAL. J 45 striven to describe this world’s wonder, and, having exhausted the power of pen and brush, they have been compelled to give up in despair and acknowl- edge that “ the half has never been told.” It goes without saying that we, like the others who have made pilgrimages to this tomb, built by Shah Jehan for his devoted wife, Banos Begum, were overpowered by its indescribable beauty, but we were destined to have an experience of which we had not dreamed. At the close of our first night’s concert, a gentle- man came up to the platform, extended his hand to me and gave expression as best he could to the pleasure the concert had given him, and then added that he would be glad to show us through the Taj- Mahal, as he was custodian of the place. A thought flashed across my mind that we might have an experience enjoyed by no other Christian people — namely, singing a Christian song in a Mohammedan tomb or temple, and that temple the most beautiful on earth. Thanking the gentleman for his kind offer, I at once asked if it would not be possible for us to sing a song there ; he looked a little sur- prised, hesitated a moment, then answered, “ Yes.” We told a few friends, including the proprietor of one of the leading papers, who engaged a special reporter to write up the event. We were up bright and early, having been ad- vised by the custodian to be there in the early morning or late afternoon as the best time to see it. Quite a large number of people drove out to be present at this remarkable event. 10 146 AT THE TAJ-MAHAL. As we entered the arched door-way, we met Mohammedans coming out ; they had been within to bedeck the tombs of Shah Jehan and his wife with the fresh flowers of the morning, and with shoeless feet had repeated in the (to them) sacred presence their morning prayers. We looked with friendly glances into one another’s dark faces as we met and passed ; they inquiringly, while our faces must have been aglow with expectant de- light. Rightly we tread the rich mosaic flooi until the centre of the octagonal temple is reached, where under the snow-white dome, two hundred and sixty-two feet high, are located, exactly above the real tombs in the crypt below, two sarcophagi du- plicates of the real ones below, ornamented with texts from the Koran, traced in precious stones — sapphires, rubies, emeralds, garnets, jaspar, mala- chite, lapis-lazuli, carnelian, agate, and blood-stone. We gather around the sarcophagi and soon the great lofty dome echoes the first Christian song it has ever caught up, and that song the cry of a race akin to those whose dust sleeps in the crypt be- neath. As the tones of that beautiful slave song, “ Steal Away to Jesus,” which we had sung before emperors, presidents, kings and queens, awoke the stillness of that most wonderful of temples, we were so much overcome by the unique circumstances that it was with the utmost difficulty we could sing at all. “ I’ve Been Redeemed” and “We Shall Walk Through the Valley ” were sung, and thus IN BUR MAH. T47 closed one of the most remarkable events in the history of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Life in the Orient was full of interest — Cawnpore, Lucknow, and Madras were particularly so; but space forbids dwelling longer upon this most in- teresting portion of our trip around the world. We sailed from Madras along the east coast of India, calling at the various ports until Coconada was reached ; then, crossing the Bay of Bengal, our next stop was at Rangoon in Lower Burmah. For a, stay of one week our work here was very profitable, most of our concerts being given in the Methodist Church. Here also we had the opportunity of coming in contact with the native population. The Baptists have a strong hold here, especially among the Karens. We were asked to sing to their schools, and one beautiful morning we drove out to where they were located and found gathered in the large hall nearly half of their students, packed like sardines in a box. They were gentlemanly and lady-like and greeted us most heartily. We sang a number of pieces for them, which they seemed most thoroughly to enjoy, many of them being moved to tears. They, in turn, sang for us a number of the Moody and Sankey hymns, which they did very well, indeed. The Methodist Church was just opening a mission in Rangoon, under the direction of Bishop Thorburn and the immediate charge of Rev. Clancy. One of the very first teachers at Fisk University w r as also engaged here, and it was a real treat to meet so old IN CHINA . 148 and tried a friend as Miss Matson. Another of the Reverend Clancy’s assistants was a Miss Killian Black, who impressed ns as being one of the most effective workers we have met in the mission field. Reaving Rangoon, we sailed down the bay, along the coast of the Malay Peninsula to Penang and Singapore. At the latter place we were especially successful, the hall being crowded nightly to its utmost capacity ; our prices of admission were one and two dollars. We made a trip also over to Je- hore, which is situated on the mainland, where we gave a concert for Dato Meldrum. We made many friends here and the week was very pleasant- ly spent. Reaving here by a German steamer, our next stop was at the beautiful city of Hong Kong. We were unfortunate here as to the time of our concert, for it was race-week and the people of Hong Kong give up their entire time, night and day, to the festivities of this great annual event — all business being suspended from ten o’clock in the day, while the nights are given up to dinner-parties and balls, which are given not only at the homes of the residents but by the officers of the various men-of-war, of which there are always from twenty to thirty in the harbor. Some of us made a trip up the Canton River to the wonderful city of Canton. Reaving Hong Kong, we went to Shanghai, but, as many of the leading Europeans of the French and English colonies, as well as the American colony, had gone to the races at Hong Kong and had not yet returned, IN CHINA. H9 it proved to be an inauspicious time to visit Shang- hai; still, we did a good business here and re- mained about two weeks. From here we sailed for beautiful Japan. CHAPTER V. IN JAPAN. We found to our surprise that nearly all of the accommodations in the various steamers sailing to San Francisco were engaged, except in one ship, which was the poorest of them all, so it was neces- sary either to cut our stay shorter than we had planned, or remain a number of weeks longer than it would be profitable to do. Our first stop was at Nagasaki, and, having arranged with the Steam- ship Company to delay the sailing of our steamer for about twelve hours, we were enabled to give a concert, which was very successful indeed. Our next stop was at Kobe, where we spent about a week, singing to crowded houses nightly, our audi- ences here consisting, as in other Oriental cities, chiefly of Europeans ; still, a much larger percent- age of the Japanese attended our concerts than any of the other Oriental races. We had here a very interesting and pleasant experience. The young ladies of the Congregational School, under the charge of the Rev. Atkinson, were very anxious to have us come and sing for them and sent down to know how much we would charge. We regarded it as a labor of love and refused to accept anything. IN JAPAN. 151 It was a most interesting and pleasant occasion. The day was the closing of the term, and the usual exercises for such an occasion were gone through with; declamations, essays, singing, etc., were ren- dered in English and Japanese, but they seemed impatient to hear ns. Your humble servant was introduced and made a little speech, which was interpreted by Mr. Atkinson, but they seemed very anxious to hear the singing. I have never seen a more interested and enthusiastic audience ; they gave expression to their delight by clapping their hands and deep-drawn sighs, which, Mr. Atkin- son informed us, was their mode of express- ing the highest degree of delight, and when we left, the girls ran down to the hedge which sur- rounds the school-house grounds and waved us good-bye as we were drawn away in our Rickshaws. Our next stop was at Yokohama, where also our hall was crowded nightly with eager listeners, many of whom were Japanese. We met a very enthusiastic American here, who was engaged in the shipping business on an exten- sive scale. Our agent had engaged him to land our baggage, deliver it at the hotel, and load it again 011 the ship at our departure. I called to settle with him before leaving ; he told me how much he had enjoyed the concerts (I had seen him every night in the two-dollar seats), and expressed his deep regret that we were leaving so soon. He said that if we were going to remain a month, he would go every night, adding further that he did HOMEWARD BOUND. 152 not feel as though he had given enough for his en- joyment. I jokingly said, “ Very well, I do not know of any law that will prevent you from giving more.” Whereupon he handed me my receipted bill, amounting to twenty-five dollars, and refused to accept any money in payment, adding that he did not feel that even such a favor paid for the pleasure and benefit he had received. It is now Thursday, the 3d of April — and at ten o’clock in the morning, we are on board of the Rio de Janeiro. The ship weighs anchor and we are on our way home again, it being just six years to the very day of the week, day of the month, and hour of the day, since we had sailed from New York. The morning is rough. Hours after our ship had started, Fujiyama was still in plain view, and we looked with longing eyes back to this beautiful land where our stay had been much too short, either for profit or pleasure. The sea is rough and grows rougher with each succeed- ing hour, until we find ourselves in a veritable cy- clone. Our progress is slow and gets laborious as the ship rolls and tosses day after day. At last we enter the Golden Gate after a voyage of seventeen days, being two days behind the time of this, one of the slowest ships plying between China and San Francisco via Japan. After a few weeks’ stay in San Francisco, we start on our way eastward, and we are not long in finding out that we are no longer free from that prejudice which confronts a Negro at every turn in AT HOME. *53 life, and which we had not met with in any other quarter of the globe. We sang at Pueblo. Our next point eastward was Colorado Springs, forty* two miles distant, but we were compelled to return to Pueblo after our concert to get a place to sleep, as no hotel in Colorado Springs would keep us. Our next appointment was still east of Colorado Springs, so I was compelled to pay the passage of twelve people eighty-four miles to get a place to sleep. Surely this is the “ land of the free and the home of the brave.” We arrived at our various homes on the third of June, thus having made the circuit of the globe in six years and two months. As an answer to the predictions of our failure under the new management, of which mention has been made, I would say that at no period in the history of the company was its success more marked. Some of the singers were enabled to buy for themselves comfortable homes ; while I may refer, with, I trust, pardonable pride, in view of the discussion now being waged on the “ Negro Problem,” to the fact that I was able to become the largest stockholder in a shoe manufactory at my home, Ravenna, Ohio ; that the stockholders did me the honor to name the company The F. J. Loudin Shoe Manufacturing Company, and the shoes we manufacture the “ F. J. Loudin Shoe.” So, I trust, my readers will pardon the reference I make to the above, as well as to the fact of my being the first man to make a successful six years’” concert tour around the world, and that, too, with i54 AT HOME. a company of colored singers, singing chiefly music composed by the Negro ; for it is such things which go far towards solving the much debated u Negro Problem.” JUBILEE SONGS. PREFACE TO THE MUSIC. In giving these melodies to the world in a tangible form, it seems desirable to say a few words about them as judged from a musical standpoint. It is certain that the critic stands completely disarmed in their presence. He must not only recognize their immense power over audiences which include many people of the highest culture, but, if he be not thor- oughly encased in prejudice, he must yield a tribute of ad- miration on his own part, and acknowledge that these songs touch a chord which the most consummate art fails to reach. Something of this result is doubtless due to the singers as well as to their melodies. The excellent rendering of the Jubilee Band is made more effective and the interest is inten- sified by the comparison of their former state of slavery and degradation with the present prospects and hopes of their race, which crowd upon every listener’s mind during the singing of their songs. Yet the power is chiefly in the songs themselves, and hence a brief analysis of them will be of interest. Their origin is unique. They are never “composed ” after the manner of ordinary music, but spring into life, ready- made, from the white heat of religious fervor during some protracted meeting in church or camp. They come from no musical cultivation whatever, but are the simple, ecstatic utterances of wholly untutored minds. From so unpromis- ing a source we could reasonably expect only such a mass of crudities as would be unendurable to the cultivated ear. On the contrary, however, the cultivated listener confesses to a 156 PREFACE TO THE MUSIC. new charm, and to a power never before felt, at least in its kind. What can we infer from this but that the child-like, receptive minds of these unfortunates were wrought upon with a true inspiration, and that this gift was bestowed upon them by an ever watchful Father, to quicken the pulses of life, and to keep them from the state of hopeless apathy into which they were in danger of falling. A technical analysis of these melodies shows some inter- esting facts. The first peculiarity that strikes the attention is in the rhythm. This is often complicated, and sometimes strikingly original. But although so new and strange, it is most remarkable that these effects are so extremely satisfac- tory. We see few cases of what theorists call mis-form , al- though the student of musical composition is likely to fall into that error long after he has mastered the leading princi- ples of the art. Another noticeable feature of the songs is the rare occur- rence of triple time, or three-part measure among them. The reason for this is doubtless to be found in the beating of the foot and the swaying of the body which are such fre- quent accompaniments of the singing. These motions are in even measure, and in perfect time ; and so it will be found that, however broken and seemingly irregular the movement of the music, it is always capable of the most exact measure- ment. In other words, its irregularities invariably conform to the “ higher law” of the perfect rhythmic flow. It is a coincidence worthy of note that more than half the melodies in this connection are in the same scale as that in which Scottish music is written ; that is, with the fourth and seventh tones omitted. The fact that the music of the ancient Greeks is also said to have been written in this scale suggests an interesting inquiry as to whether it may not be a peculiar language of nature, or a simpler alphabet than the ordinary diatonic scale, in which the uncultivated mind finds its easiest expression. THEO. F. SEWARD. INDEX TO MUSIC Preface to the Music PAGE 155 NO. PAGE 1 14. A great Camp-meeting in the promised land 280 92. A Happy New Year 247 60. A little more faith in Jesus... 312 99. Anchor in the Lord 255 70. Angels waiting at the door... 223 20. Been a listening 178 128. Benediction 299 105. Bright sparkles in the Church-yard 262 16. Children, you’ll be called on. 174 6. Children, we all shall be free. 164 127. Chilly Water 298 i2i. Come, all of God’s children.. 292 106. Come down, angels 268 33. Come, let us all go down 190 77. Deep River 230 61. Did not old Pharaoh get lost? 213 10. Didn’t my Lord deliver Dan- iel ? 168 95. Don’t you grieve after me... 250 85. Down by the River 239 66. Farewell, my brother 219 5. From every grave-yard 163 75. Gabriel’s Trumpet’s going to blow 229 51. Getting ready to die 206 T09. Gideon's Band 272 17. Give me Jesus 174 19. Go down, Moses 176 56. Go, chain the lion down 208 94. Good-by, Brothers 249 NO PAGE 115. Good news, the chariot’s coming 282 89. Good old Chariot 244 90. Grace 245 14. Gwine to ride up in the Chariot 172 124. Hail! Hail! 295 87. Hard trials 241 38. He arose 194 136. Hear de Angels singin’ 307 88. He rose from the dead 242 41. He’s the Lily of the Valley. 197 130. Humble yourself, the bell done rung 301 50. I am going to die no more... 205 68. I ain’t got weary yet 221 nr. I know that my Redeemer lives 276 xr. I’ll hear the trumpet sound.. 170 9. I’m a rolling 167 22. I’m a traveling to the grave. r8o 54. I’m going to live with Jesus. 207 113. I’m going to sing all the way 278 32. I’m so glad 189 107. I’m so glad 269 53. I’m troubled in mind 207 122. I want to be ready ; or, walk in Jerusalem just like John 293 78. In Bright Mansions above.... 233 67. Inching along 220 30. In the River of Jordan 187 no. In that great getting-up morning 274 NO. PAGE 55. I’ve been in the storm so long 208 73. I’ve been redeemed 226 13. I’ve just come from the Foun- tain 171 101. John Brown’s Body 257 26. Judgment-day is rolling round 183 40. Judgment will find you so.... 194 132. Keep a Moving 303 21. Keep me from sinking down. 179 71. Keep your lamps trimmed and burning 224 102. Listen to the Angels 259 135. Lobe an’ serbe de Lord 306 63. Love-feast in Heaven 216 138. Love King Jesus 309 76. Lord, I wish I had a come.... 230 100. Lord’s Prayer 256 23. Many thousand gone 180 44. March on 200 49. Mary and Martha 204 103. Move along 260 59. My good Lord’s been here... 211 137. My Lord delibered Daniel... 308 79. My Lord, what a mourning. 233 25. My Lord’s writing all the time 182 43. My ship is on the ocean 199 45. My way’s cloudy 201 x. Nobody knows the trouble I see 159 97. Now we take this feeble body 253 134. Oh, my little soul’s gwine to shine 305 35. Oh ! holy Lord 191 1 18. Oh, Brothers are you get- ting ready ? 288 126. Oh, give me the wings 297 119. Oh, make a-me holy 290 81. Oh, wasn’t that a wide river 234 81. Oh, yes ! Oh, yes! 246 29. Old ship of Zion 186 4. O Redeemed 162 58. O ! Sinner Man 210 108. Peter, goring them bells 270 42. Prepare us 198 117. Reign, Masterjesus 287 46. Ride on. King Jesus 202 96. Rise and Shine 251 NO. PAGE 12. Rise, Mourners 170 125. Rise, shine, for thy light is a-coming 296 7. Roll, Jordon, roll 165 3. Room enough 161 69. Run to Jesus 222 39. Save me, Lord, save me 195 28. Shine, shine 183 98. Shine, shine 254 133. Sitting down by the side of the Lamb 304 112. Sweet Canaan 277 72. Show me the way 225 xi6. Some of these mornings 286 24. Steal away 181 2. Swing low, sweet Chariot 160 93. ’Tis Jordan’s River 248 131. The Crucifixion 302 52. The General Roll 206 27. The Gospel Train 184 139. The Old Ark 310 18. TheRocks and theMountains 175 104. The Angels changed my Name 261 65. There’s a meeting here to- night 218 37. The Ten Virgins 193 123. The work’s being done 294 129. These bones going to rise again 300 120. They led my Lord away 291 36. This Old Time Religion 192 8. Turn back Pharaoh’s army.. 166 86. Wait a little while 240 82. Way over Jordan 236 84. We are almost home 238 80. We are climbing the hills of Zion 234 15. We’ll die in the Field 173 83. We’ll overtake the Army 237 31. We’ll stand the Storm 188 74. We shall walk through the valley 228 47. What kind of shoes are you going to wear 202 57. When Moses smote the water 209 64. When shall I get there ? 217 62. Wrestling Jacob 2/4 34. Zion’s Children 1QO JUBILEE SONGS. It will be observed that in most of these songs the first strain is of the nature of a chorus or refrain, which is to be sung after each verse. The return to this chorus should be made without breaking the time. In some of the verses the syllables do not correspond exactly to the notes in the music. The adaptation is so easy that it w r as thought best to leave it to the skill of the singer rather than to confuse the eye by too many notes. The music is in each case carefully adapted to the first verse. Whatever changes may be necessary in singing the remaining verses will be found to involve no difficulty. No. 1. fcnotos tlje ©rouble If see, Eotb ! -G-, v 0 w -N =S- ' -N ^ — c N — fc — * • • • : 0 j y * • - * * v A - No-bo-dy knows the trouble I see, Lord, No-bo-dy knows the trou-ble I see -V -N _V- V V fw M < 0 m P 9 ~tA w — 1 — I -A e 9 • 0 : * + < * ' -) , No -bo- dy knows the trouble I see, Lord, Fine. -Jr ^ * 9 9 a a 1 L ft 0 = g 1 : £ — tz=±_ * :: No - bo - dy knows like Je-sus. 1. Broth-ers, will you r !> - . I/Lh 0 • 0 . 0 — 0 — M 0 L_ # • 0 . | > * F - uC & m 9 - & * s. 0 — r, — y — y — -TJ y — 0 r- h-j I-J - L y y L y — y -J pray for me, Brothers, will you pray for me, Brothers, will you d. c. -yz, b _ft _ft _v- n 1 0 • 0 1 ft N k. tep— b — h y — 0 i — J _ J V P P h# jr £ H -J* =* h nj l XT' — - — y y # — £ — # 0 L? # 0 p LJ pray for me, And help me to drive old Sa - tan a . way. 2 . Sisters, will you pray for me, Ac. 3. Mothers, will you pray for me, Ac. 4. Preachers, will you pray for me, &c. *59 No. 2. Sirring loto, stoect Chariot. y i yb0£?0000 Swing low, sweet char-i-ot, Com-ing for to car - ry me home i^ii= . 0 — 0 — 0 — 0 - .0 — 0 — 0 — 0 - :g-girg=zgz=g=zgz=g : P I /7S Fine. L V— *- ±-zb~z& \—0- 0z±Mz^j—tMz-M--MZ~gz-gzzM L> 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 -# -#- Swing low, sweet char-i-ot, Com-ing for to car - ry me home. # — # ■#■ — # :S=f=£=?— - _ V 1 1 Vzzz&zzzVzzz ?. — 1 — r r J — -J — 9 — J 0-1- II v U u J l> b N'T ? - tl 1. I looked o - ver Jor-dan, and what did I see, 2. If you get there be - fore I do, 3. The bright - est day that ev - er I saw, 4. I’m som - times up and some - times down, Com-ing for to car - ry me home ? A band of an - gels Com-ing for to car - ry me home, Tell all my friends I’m Com-ing for to car-ry me home, When Je - sus wash’d my Com-ing for to car-ry me home, But still my soul feels - 0 - - 0 - £ - 0 - - 0 - -tt- - 0 - -y- -0- -y- a: ^ act 0— f 0— 0 s r 0 0 0 0 i com-ing af - ter, me, Com-ing for to car - ry me home com - ing too, Com-ing for to car-ry me home, sins a - way, Com-ing for to car - ry me home, heaven - ly bound, Com-ing for to car-ry me home. -h- No. 3. Moom JEiuDugij. 4-*i- - -N- — — 0—~i- &- 1 * 9 -0- — K i- — I- -0- 1. Oh, brothers, don’t stay a - way, Brothers, don’t stay a - way, Broth-ers, don’t stay a - way, Don’t stay a - way. ft « • o * ft- iifa=t ■ 0 - t 0 r 0 'V 0 - 0 0 & 0 - s* - 0 - -v — b— 0- ■~£zr I — For my Lord says there’s room e-nough, Boom e - nough in the 0—0 0 0 — n -0 0-±—0 0 0 - 1—0 znzzxrzzizi: :zte zzis 0 — — 0 ^ H v S — r ^ ^=3 fa “N V - 0 - -0 H K K- ' 0 ~ 9 ~0 -0 ~S A— fa -U4 0— w 9- 9* Heav'ns for you, My Lord says there’s room enough, Don’t stay away. .0 0 0—-0 0 0—0 0 e . 0 - V -0- ~\ 0 U -0- -I It F* v J v 0 - ✓ • sr — 90 — ✓ 7 tz J 2 Oh, mourners, don’t stay away. Clio . — For the Bible says there’s room enough, &c. 3 Oh sinners, don’t stay away. Cho . — For the angel says there’s room enough, &c. 4 Oh, children, don’t stay away. Cho . — For Jesus says there’s room enough, &c. • The peculiar accent here makes the words sound thus: “rooma nough.” l6l I I No. 4. .Chobus. © laeDfeemea, & v \J Lamb, 0 redeemed, re-deemed. I’m wash’d in tlie blood of the Lamb, JL N I ^ ^ . „ . „ „ 9:1 J- — r* , , ;*-0 :^z\z< - 0 - 0 h ■V- V V- # — # — £ — (X--I — y — i i/-h ■~£7 — y — a i— H — *£ -A -r* s rr —7^ ■Tm ° 0 0 .l£3Z t 1 ; . j I . - - j 1 - 1. 2. 3 . -* 0 - v — y Al-though you see me going a When I was a mourner just - 0 - v- r=CIZv §> ; ! Re :^= li - gion’s like a V bloom - ing s s s "CJ — ^ long so, Washed in like you, Washed in — -V- -- 0 — the the rose, Washed in the — i/- zzrf =Z^r;- ^= t £ * -s -t*- — fn r Fr — N^ — —Nr — 1 arf - ^ ^ —it- rm 0,0 W. 0 £ 0 l_j uj W 1 L v -fir sri blood of blood of blood of -e. ■*- tlie Lamb, the Lamb, the Lamb, V tri - als here be - low, I mourned and prayed till I got through, As none but those that feel it knows, I have my fS -y- V- '0 :R— E c=$: v — =tc :p: £ £ :± -S?z Washed in the blood of i - y r- the Lamb. 0 v- =± redeemed, -N i & 0 - 0 . . 0 - 0 - “f -y- :*= * :p: •h — 1-0 j— re-deemed. * Attention is called to this characteristic manner of connecting the last strain with the chorus in the D. C. No. 5. jFrmu eberg ©rabegaitj. :=^z=^=^zipqz=i| | : = ±z=^z: f=J=^ : i- j— r — ■ 1 ■ - ■ ■ ^ — r ■■■ ~ - | ■■ * — - U 1 m ~ ' V ^ 1. Going to 2. Going to bold that num-ber Prom ev - e - ry grave-yard. 1 3. Going to 1 4. Going to -P-- -|/ ,N N s £_ V — 1 i ,5. Going to J}_ . f: : 1 1 # = -^ _| 1. meet the brothers, there, That used to join in prayer, Go -ing 2. meet the sis - ters, there, That used to join in prayer, &c. J 3. meet the preachers, there, That used to join in prayer, &c. 4. meet the mourners, there, That used to join in prayer, &c. 5. meet the Christians, there, That used to join in prayer, &c. up thro’ great trib - u - la - tion Prom ev - e - ry grave-yard. 163 No. 6. (gijtlTtren, toe all sljall U Jfree. - ? *> ; p v a - 9 : A SI Chil-dren, we all i ft b i . Solo. Moderate. ; Q i \? Q -ES s, N, _ J _ N — N — N N — r_-> -| ._K. 0.-0 0 . 0 — -0 — 0 — 0 0 9 0 1. Gwine to write to Mas-sa Je-sus, To send some valiant soldier, 2. If you want your souls converted, You’d better be a praying, 3. You say you are a sol-dier, Fighting for your Saviour, 4. When the children were in bondage, They cried un-to the Lord, 5. When Mo-ses smote the wa-ter, The children all passed over, C. When Pharaoh cross’d the water, The waters came to - gether, Chorus. Faster. * a -m- - 0 - - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - - c 0 0 - 0 0 a 1. To turn back Pharaoh’s army, 2. To turn back Pharaoh’s army, 3. To turn back Pharaoh’s army, 4. He turn’d back Pharaoh’s army, 5. And turn’d back Pharaoh’s army, 6. And drown’d ole Pharaoh’s army, - - - *L f— 9 0 m u Hal Hal- il al- Hal- Hal- Hal -0 . -=£:□= - 9 - b i ■le - lu ! -le - lu ! le - lu ! ■le - lu ! -le - lu ! le - lu ! e •- 8= . 0 . . 9 . f -h~ To turn back Pharaoh’s To turn back, &c. To turn back. &c. He turn’d back. &c. And turn’d back, &c. And drown’d ole, &c. - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - ■#- - 0 - 4—8 it * --y- v- -y— No. 9. $’m a Moiling. *==EE E-g^f‘-Hj b y 1 I’m a roll - ing, I’m a roll - ing, I’m a roll-ing thro’ an un- friend-ly world, I’m a roll - ing, I’m a roll - ing thro’ an £3=3- :f::: -N ^ J 0 g-- -A-ft- = y (9- -s*- f r: E ; | Eld :*=*E =$=!: 1- * 0 0 * # # 1 un - friend-ly world. m K ^ r V ?-* E=5: ■*- :* It- -<5»- EEEi \ 1 1 0 0 0 ip: " | v , ~ r j I 1. O brothers, wont you help me, 2. O sis - ters, wont you help me, 3. O preachers, wont you help me, * J' * J. j. iJ- :r jM= -^-'Ejzzy: ? * : 2 : — S — s, — , I- z=d v-g: T~ -H- fS- - 4 !- :i: / > ^ ^ ^ > O brothers, wont you help me to pray ? O brothers, wont you O sis - ters, wont you help me to pray ? O sis - ters, &c. (^preachers, wont you help me to fight? O preachers, &c. 1 N s S ^ _i # S A \ S ~0- . ' i i N a© • ^ j * • g id— ^ p — — i H — y y ^ ^ -< — — 1 1— y -y — < — £ — J 1^ r - N v — a g & _s i). a ^ ? — 'i „ y I help me, Wont you help me in the sendee of the Lord?* * Return to the beginning in exact time. 16 7 No. 10. JDttm’t mg noth ttdtber ©anid. Sung in Unison. r6~r j fj “v 1 v v C N — I s n n ^ j* 8 $ & . 4 ® 0 & — * a e 9 I - lv ly. TV » ® 9 s \ = = ; J Did-n’t my Lord de - liv - er Dan - iel, D’liver Dan - iel, d’liver Dan - iel, Did - n’t my Lord de - liv - er 1st Verse. Dan - iel, And why not a ev - e - ry man ? He de - liv-er’d Dan -iel from the li - on’s den, Jo - nah from the bel - ly of the whale, And the He-brew children from the fie - ry fur-nace, And why not ev - e - ry man? [—ft v K S - - & A — ... rzrKr zr wc „J * - r * - & * _ M .... -a — — <0 -J±- a — - 1- — y — l v u — ' ' — ■s**. £ Did - n’t my Lord de - liv - er Dan - iel. D’liver 1 -Ch, b ft x _lj "ft ft _). _N, Jl U m * q - n 9 9 L* a 9 * V\ \ 1 / I V * 0 ______ ^ Dan - iel, d’liver Dan-iel, Did -n’t my Lord dc - liv - er * Go on without pause, leaving out two beats of the measure. 1 68 \w~-~ £00 __S V__ 0 m F=f=. : * p 1 T] rri * v— 0 9 :: Dan - iel, And why not a ev - e - ry man ? 2 d Veese. -f| -b p . A 4 -j£. * « p 0 0 P P * P H— — -0 0 ? 0 w -7 r — ^ u — 1 1 . j ■4 V 0 h b frd The moon run down in a purple-stream, The sun for - bear to I). C. “ Didn't my Lord.” 0000 -0 — #-T-s fs- -U 1 * — P—0 1— v -1 -0 — 0-'-P-0 — *- -N- 0 -A — A — A — *, l a — ^ — A — 5 1] i 1 1 T -fc? 1 — lei 0- L s— y — S 3 shine, And ev - e - ry star dis-ap-pear, King Jesus shall be mine. 3 d Yeese. The wind blows East, and the wind blows West, It blows like the judg-ment day, And ev - ery poor soul that I). C. “Didn't my Lord.” ■ ■ \ 1 l/Lh j j r 0 0 S n 0 • 0 0 0 ' 1 Um?' a a r, ^ 0 s tr 1 1 VT 7 A A A «*»■» • m J nev-er did pray, ’ll be glad to pray, that day. 4 th Yeese. I set my foot on the Gos - pel ship, And the ship it be - gin to sail, It land-ed me o - ver on D. C. “Didn't my Lord” Tt? - S s v Jv X .*■ r 0 m s S 1 41 Iw A 7 A A w w b -g— g— i>— 5~ Ca-naan’s shore, And I’ll nev - er come back a - ny more. 169 No. 1 1 . i’ll lie at ti)c trumpet j&outUr. 17 > v N S. K K 1 _:A ' 1 * 1 ■ ' * I ^ W — N — ! 1 1 1 — A S Lp — 0 — 0 0 0 0 A- e 9 0 You may bur-y me m You may bur-y 3 in the West; But I’ll hear the trumpet sound In that morning. . /CN . . 3 -A-fc-i— — t-v— " ~r - - v - <7 f" ' 9 2 i_ * ’ - In that morn-ing, my Lord, How I long to /T\ go, For to 3 hear the trum-pet 2. Father Gabriel in that day, He’ll take wings and fly away, For to hear the trumpet sound In that morning. You may bury him in the East, You may bury him in the West; But he’ll hear the trumpet sound, In that morning. sound, In that morn - mg. 3. Good old Christians in that day, They’ll take wings and fly away, &c. Cho . — In that morning, &c. 4. Good old preachers in that day, They’ll take wings and fly away,&c. Cho . — In that morning, Ac. 5. In that dreadful Judgement day, I’ll take wings and fly away &c. Cho . — In that morning, Ac. Cho . — In that morning, Ac. * Repeat the music of the first strain for all the verses but the first. No. 12. Rise, Jtflminiers.* I / 0 • -a - 0 — 9 . \W -4 1 - - 0 ? * . • & -9 "I -y- 1. Rise, 2. Rise, 3. Rise, 4. Rise, -0- -i — mourners, seekers, sinners, brothers, lei rise, mourners, rise, seekers, rise, sinners, rise, brothers, Fine. O can’t you rise and O can’t you rise Ac. O can’t you rise Ac. 0 can’t you rise Ac. -N— is- , lii;? -j ~\ — x — * — r*- tell, What the Lord has done for you. Yes, he’s taken my feet out of tin I). C -y- & c v- mi -ry clay, And he’s placed them on the right side of my Father. theaUar. hymU iS SVmg With great unctiou while “seekers" are going forward t, 170 No. 13. Jpbe just come from tfjc jfouutaht. - 1 - 0 W~ O -U _ J -V "-IP V L> - 0 - b 1. I've just come from the fountain, I’ve just come from the 2. Been drinking from the fountain, Been drinking, &c. K V—W v— £ a 5r- _ u v y fountain, Lord ! I’ve just come from the fountain, His name’s so sweet. O brothers, £3 y I love Je - sus, 0 brothers. I love 1 S 1 S Je-sus, O brothers. I love Je- sus, His name’s so sweet. . N i s s? v r* 1 Blrb— *: — - — y— |V— ? ..*-4 ;zzp: ^ V J. h- 4 j ! I 3 . I found free grace at the fountain, I found free grace, &c. Cho . — 0 preachers, I love Jesus, &c. 4. My soul’s set free at the fountain, My soul’s set free, &c. Cho . — O sinners, I love Jesus, &c. * The Tenors casualty sing the melody from this point. I7I e No. 14. ©tome to not up in tije (Cijariot. Solo. CHORUS. — ” 1 ^ ^ N |S V N — ■ ^ft-'-ft -5 -ft -N S V I g g g # a g | Gwine to ride up in the chariot, Soon-er in the morning. ^ JS h f-« s - r ft — 9 — 9— H— I -9 — 9 — V "+■ V- i Solo. Chorus. I r- ft’ ZP~ -ft- *— # N- -FS— 0 -I “I ~b~ r-fr— ft-i ■ ft - -ft — N — jv ! 7 7 7 ft -ft’ 'ft ....v }p g==g=g— jErjfcrr g — jT M Kide up in the cha - riot, Soon-er in the morning, And I ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft 1 9 9 9 9, 9 9 1 M h 9 9 9 172 D. C. mer-cy on me, And I hope I’ll join the band. 2. Gwine to meet my brother there, Sooner, &c. Cho . — O Lord, have mercy, &c. 3. Gwine to chatter with the Angels, Sooner, &c. Cho . — O Lord, have mercy, &c. 4. Gewine to meet my massa Jesus, Sooner, &c. Cho . — O Lord, have mercy, &c. 5. Gwine to walk and talk with Jesus, Sooner, &c. Cho.— O Lord, have mercy, &c. No. 15. iitc’U irie in tijc jFieHr. Unison. 1. 0 what do you say, seekers, O what do you say, — fj— ~b — __ - 0 — — — ] -fx . K - - e 9 & ft . ... 4* 0-i—— — _ 0 • L| , ‘— 0 - r- y — y - -* — £ — \j-0- r~ y e - 1 Nr ■ V L y — 1 ^ — y- — •--r- ju -bi-lee, This warfare’ll be ended, I’m a soldier of the cross. No. 17. — — - E| t • — when I come to die— Give me Je - sus, Give me Je- t ^ r±i 1 1 mi 9 0 J— L-* bJ 1 1L 2 * - L i : ^ pz :p -0 0 i_ #— u d A sus, give me Je - sus, You may have all thin world, Give me Je-sus. 174 No. 18. je tttocfcs anti tf )t iUftountams. 2. Doubter, doubter, give up your heart to God, And you shall have a new hiding-place that day. Oh, the rocks, &c. 3. Mourner, Mourner, give up your heart to God, &e. 4. Sinner, sinner, give up your heart to God, Ac. 5. Sister, sister, give up your heart to God, &c. 6. Mother, mother, give up your heart to God, &c. 7. Children, children, give up your heart to God, &c. *?5 "No. 19. 6 g=g (So ioton, J&oses. -±Z± -* I 3 :q=d: -H i -#■ ■#-*!#-•#■ -« -a- :Mztr ~9 9 ~ 1 & 3. When I was a mourner just like you; Keep me from sinking down : I mourned and mourned till I got through* Keep me from sinking down. Oh, Lord, &c. 4. I bless the Lord I’m gwine to die; Keep me from sinking down : I’m gwine to judgment by-and-by; Keep me from sinking down. Oh, Lord, &c. *79 No. 22 . 5’m a trab’Ung to tijc (ffirabe. Chorus. =53 -N 1 fs '• J _ ^ m • _n m 0 M W • jL : I’m a trav’ling to the grave, I’m a trav’ling to the - -M 1 V— ^ a: grave, my Lord, I’m a trav’ling to the grave, For to lay this bod-y Fine. f «- lU l ^ 0 — , f—f -y — b - * -i — down. 1. My Mas-sa died a shouting, Singing glo-ry hal - le ~ n. a :d2: — i 1 , - f?-j* 0 J ^ _i _N. * _L -""—i _ S. 0 * a ^ m i J ' ! 0 _i _j_: L_ 1 ! 1 0 __ 0 0 - 0-S* * 0 lu -jah,The last word he said to me, Was a-bout Je -ru -sa-lem. 2. My missis died a shouting, &c. 3. My brother died a shouting, &c. 4. My sister died a shouting, &c. No. 23. Utlang ®bmisanb ©one. Plaintively — V — b- V b— K — 3 S 1. No more auc-tion block for me, -0 0 -’ No more, no more; w . _ 1 i — _ 0 0 • — j — j — □ — — — — 0 — 0 -' — j b a= *- N- m No more auction block for me, Ma - ny thousand gone. hr- - 0 - £ -br I 2. No more peck o’ corn for me, &c. 3. No more driver’s lash for me, &c. 4. No more pint o’ salt for me, &c. 5. No more hundred lash for me, &c. 6. No more mistress’ call for me, &c. 180 j&teal fUna}). No. 24. J $ 1/ V Steal a- way, steal away home, I liain’t got long to stay here. I S 9— J5- /T\ N P V / y a Ha id by ‘ u i 1 n Nr n. a zzNzziNzi^izirjv zip- V * y # y #\ ' , . ' * trumpet sounds it m my soul: I hain’t got long to stay here. N S N N s N 1 1 S a K ' \ ■#- r • -y- -y- -y- :y~m— : 3 My Lord calls me, He calls me by the lightning; The trumpet sounds it in my soul; I hain’t got long to stay here. Clio . — Steal away, &c. 4 Tombstones are bursting, Poor sinners are trembling; The trumpet sounds it in my soul; I hain’t got long to stay here. Cho . — Steal away, <£c. 181 Wo. 25 . JHi> Horn’s torlting all tlje time.* Solo. Refrain. ±| 0-1 -f ' L - -0-r- F f -K-*- L h- -4- 0 a -- - — N 1. Come clown, come down.My Lord, come clown, My Lord’s writing all tlve 2. When I was down in Egypt’s land, My Lord’s writing all the 3. O Christians you had bet- ter pray. My Lord’s writing all the 4. King Jesns rides in the middle of the air, My Lord’s writing all the £■ -0- . a =j5=?= tv—- - Refrain. ± • ' * ' P c ^ 0 — ^-0 - -0 — * — e--h~ u 1 V~T ■H— «- <9. 1 time. And take me up to wear the crown, My Lord’s writing all the time, time. I heard some talk of promised land, My Lord’s writing all the time, time. For Satan’s round you every day, My Lord’s writing all the time, time. He’s calling sinners from everywhere, My Lord’s writing all the time. m # :ei:o C * * CHORUS. , S N. a 0 H. 3s = f-g- e — W=4i— -Pi -Pi e 0 & % • # 0 & -*s a 49 0 * Published in sheet form, with piano accompaniment, by John Chuiich & Co., Cincinnati. 0 102 No. 26. Judgment Bag is roUrttg Mounti. I --V| £— F— , C±p_ T, — g — sa — 1,« — | t Judgment, Judgment, Judgment day is rolling around, Judgment, JL J0L • JL JL JL • - 0 - - 19 - • 4— -I — — +— - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - -&- - 0 - 19 - • Mr 1 • w 1 L 0-0 0 - EEEEE 0- ~U — hi -0 — &- EE= - 19 --— -I MrM-r- fc?s3: d~ jiiz -L?- =3=^3=|fc£=f ~K' _ ~N" ^v-JV » # ==*=£=£ i 1 u i -*■ Judgment, 0 how I long to go. 1. I ? ve a good old mother in the JL .< 2 .. 9 - £ -9 T“ *"( it 0—r&-l- 1 S. 1 N. ' _ K ' J _i 1 D- ' V heaven, my Lord, How I N F g — r — 1 — * 0 i long to go there too, I’ve a 9 - £ * V E~e=E «__• # • Z=F 0 i ES3 V if — 1 .pi ■ $ c ! ^ ^ n i a 1 -i j. - # • # 22 • - J if I if ^ if good old mother in the heaven, my Lord, 0 how I long to go. 91 .m. - 0 - Y 0 -— P-v-r- EEEE:E* : izE -T 2 There’s no back -sliding in the heaven, my Lord, How I long to go there too, There’s no back-sliding in the heaven, my Lord, O how I long to go. Oho.— Judgment, &c. 3 King Jesus sitting in the heaven, my Lord, How I long to go there too, King Jesus sitting in the heaven, my Lord, 0 how I long to go. Cho. — Judgment, &c. 4 There’s a big camp meeting in the heaven, my Lord, How I long to go there too, There’s a big camp meeting In the heaven, my Lord, 0 how I long to go. Cho.— Judgment, &c. &t)C ®ospel Strain No. 27. Unison. |i«4— — _ | I _J 0 • 0 -0 tS> ' — — ! — 0- — a — 0— L.0 — P-M- L 0 . 1. The gos - pel train is coining, I hear it just at hand, 2. I hear the bell and whistle, The coming round the curve; 3. No sig-nal from an -oth- er train To fol - low on the line, 11 n — 1 — - — ±— 1— d- i □ J -0 . . 0H & - ~ m a 0 - 0 =^- & W W X7 0 m I hear the car- wheels moving, And rumbling thro’ the land. She’s playing all her steam and pow’r And straining every nerve. 0, sin - ner, you’re forever lost, If once you’re left be - hind. -N- — i- 3=E: \-.-0 — 0 0- 0 • > - 0-^0 0 3 -N h- - 0 - -0- -0r - 0 - -A- ■ 0 - r — | — — i — • . Get on board, children, Get on board, children, Get on — :-h- rr- t -p- -0- -m- . see G- G- t t=t i 1 2d. Sis -< 2 - children, For there’s room for many a more. more. •0- -G- ~0~ -0- ■P- •&- ~ F r p p — T—- P P P— - 1 r tr~ - 0 - :tz: - 0 - -F- - 0 - -v—u- g= m 4 This is the Christian banner, The motto’s new and old, Salvation and Repentance Are burnished there in gold. Clio . — Get on board, children, &c. 5 She’s nearing now the station, O, sinner, don’t be vain, But come and get your ticket, And be ready for the train. Clio.— Get on board, children, &c. 6 The fare is cheap and all can go, The rich and poor are there, No second-class on board the train, No difference in the fare. Clio . — Get on board, children, - jah, Do you think that she is a - ble, Hal- le - lu.) -P- S H ‘ - St St * t e - * .* • F—\ -P — vn 9-P — 1 ~B t t t ' t= — • • — ^ i i i 0 0 L 1 & 0 0 ! 1 ! <9 — -B? 1 1 _ _J fffl ! 0 — 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 4 S 2 1 J i Do you i i „ 4 4 l t"- 1 ■ r think that she is 1 ! 1 1 4 4 0 4 ~\ - ■ 1 "r — i a - ble, For to i ' i r _ 4 4 s 0 Cv# : _ o 0 j - ' wr car - ry us all home. 0... glo - ry, Hal-le-lu. In singing the last two verses the music is not to be repeated. 2 She has landed many a thousand, Hallelujah, She has landed many a thousand, Hallelu, She has landed many a thousand, And will land as many a more. Oh glory, Hallelu. S She is loaded down with angels, Hallelujah, She is loaded down with angels, Hallelu, And King Jesus is the Captain, And he’ll carry us all home. Oh glory, Hallelu. 1 86 No. 30. $n t\)t Hlber of Sorfcait. fU iv — N Nf j — jl. 9 d 9 • ' a ! ~N 1 “P* w — 1 1 1 W W — , -±~ *9 9 9 . 9 . » ~ 1. In the riv- er of Jordan John baptized, How I long to 5-4- ft* S* L * Ml 9999 -A. ' -I- — - 0 . — 4 - — be baptized; la the riv - er of Jordan John baptized, W\ n Ji — 1 1 — 1_ L_ J - ^=1 =1- — 1. [- :3r£ — ! =M- “arf 3^3 1 * -9 & d XT7 1 1 9 — 9— W • * J i 9 ^-T— 1 r i — -9 <7 9 L I 1 §1 To the dying Lamb. Pray on, pray on, pray on, ye 1 # • ! — 4- ■ . — ^ ♦ * -9 x fc= =1 =3: T~ t -N % * -h* -»=*=i=3EE: m 9 9- 9- — i — i — r>T' i” . , w ^ mourning souls, Pray on, pray on, un - to the dying Lamb. Id 9 9 9 £2 • 1 9 q==c & — # — #- =t== E t=: * — #- i -y- 2 We baptize all that come by faith, How I long to be baptized ; We baptize all that come by faith, To the dying Lamb. Clio . — Pray on, &c. 3 Here’s another one come to be baptized. How I long to be baptized ; Here’s another one to be baptized. To the dying Lamb. Clio . — Pray on, &c. i8 7 No. 31. ffiBe’U sitanfi tlje jctoriu. -fs V J_ J _N- 0 • 0 * & • A M 0 . # 5 • 2 0.0 3*3 i-i 3=3 I 1. Oh ! stand the storm, it won’t be long, We’ll anchor by-and-by, \SJ - 0 - — ~ t~' b — !* • ■w— £ -i— r -h- 0 - P 5=E- T" T~ 1st 0 --- 0 — 0 - -B? v - V- HEEE N | v s ^ 0 0 - V-F -b— b I. - 0 - : F : 4- r~N- zr d: i~i -0- -0- b ' l 1. My ship is on the o- cean, We’ll anchor by-and-by, My I ,s (t, . I I I spas ~b— ti- v- -0- -0- £ - 0 — 0 - -l j — v— E= *-+]|ee±£ ee; i= d. c. :r — IN- -i 1 j 0 ^ 1 i— 1 — » ! i— — | N — ! -mi -J 0 1 0 - - 0 - -0- -GL. t ship fs is on the o - cean, We’ll anchor by - and- by. s> i r> 9- T £ tr tbnzt: -ft r 0^-* -i — |g>-*— 2=fe= 2 She’s making for the kingdom, We’ll anchor, &c. 3 I’ve a mother in the kingdom, We’ll anchor, &c. 5’m so ffilati. No. 32. -fH S . J 1 .1 , ! n-tir i 0 -4 i n n u - 2 * 9 ^ — K ^ • m 2 ? 0 0 & 0 0 0 . > - I m so glad, I’m so glad, I’m so glad there’s ^ JL JL JL • A. u- 1 -A- t_ | □ r— r— - J' 't— ft- t 1 -A- « e: 'f— 0 0 3 m EL 1 1 1 r- 0 t— 1— - 1 1 11 * — P h y $=§: I W 8 3 n . ( V K V V V -P : -P h - 1 1 1 -1 -A :ij d no dy - ing there. 1. I’ll tell you how I found the Lord, +~ 4— -y- -\ — -0- • -1 9 : i= If No -t— i :h V _x W- i =5 -K - 1 1 2^ dy - ing there, With a hung down head -h— 0- . 0 - -i — • K V V I ft 1 -A -4 9-i -jS“ ~0 ~9' and ach - ing heart, No -I— -i — - 0 - -y- b. c. dy - ing there. -I* 1 2. I hope I’ll meet my brother there, No dying there, That used to join with me in prayer, No dying there. Cho.— I'm so glad, &c. 3. I hope I'll meet the preacher there, No dying there, That used to join with me in prayer, No dying there. Oho. — I’m so glad, &c. 189 No. 33- ©orne, let us all go fflotott. 1. As 1 went down in the val-ley to pray , Studying a-bont that 2. I think I hear the sinner say, Come, let’s go in the val- 3. I trunk I hear the mourner say, Come, let’s go in the val- _n_ g . 1 1 r 1 1 N- -3r^r-±rj= a m js | N i J H ~V W - 0- . --g V -0 — & — 1 ' 4 € — goodold way ;You shall wear the starry crown, GoodLord,show me the way; ley to pray ; You shall wearthe starry crown, GoodLord, show me the way ; ley to pray ; You shall wearthe starry crown, GoodLord, show me the way; ~ £=^i=:3=Er±:zq-: — 0 0 1 — « 25- By - and -by we’ll all go down, all go down, all go down, By - and - by we’ll all go down, Down in the val-ley to pray. No. 34. Eton’s CCljlltirnt. Oh ! Zi - on’s children com-ing a - long, Com-ing a - long, Com-ing a - long, 0 Zi - on’s children com - ing a - long, (L I Talk - ing a - bout the well - come day, ■< 2 . Oh ! 3. I 3 r~& - -N 1 m „ '7 0 e 0 • 0 r F ^ 0 0 ' i h V 2 1 \J 12 * ; m & hail my moth-er in the morn - ing, Com-ing a - long, don’t you want to live up yon - der, Com-ing, &c. think they are might - y hap - py, Com-ing, &c. 190 com - ing a - long, ■W I morn - ing, Talk - ing hail my moth - er in the D. C. a - bout the wel - come day. No. 35. <©!)’• JLorti. Oh ! ho - ly Lord ! Oh ! ho - ly Lord ! - 19 - e> i “ 1 "” ~ — & _| S. _ l_ — | -0 — — 0 ,'J P g ! 1 Oh! ho - ly Lord ! Done with the sin and l-G-S 1 J j ] _| I i ! i ‘ J aq a — A — — 0 — j L- 0 0 0 0 — J sor - row. 1. Oh! rise up chil - dren, get your crown, * : — \~iff rr n . _J _| _| _ \Tr -p J . . i . | i 2 0 0 * - .. J L # ^ 0 J 1-0 0 0 0 Done with the sin and sor - row, And by your Saviour’s side sit d. a down, Done with the sin and sor - row. 2 What a glorious morning that will be, Done with the sin and sorrow; Our friends and Jesus we will see, Done with the sin and sorrow.— Cho. 3 Oh shout, you Christians, you’re gaining ground, Done with the sin and sorrow; We’ll shout old Satan’s kingdom down, Done with the sin and sorrow.— Cho. 4 I soon shall reach that golden shore, Done with the sin and sorrow; And sing the songs we sang before, Done with the sin and sorrow.— Cho. I 9 I No. 36. ©If ©me IfteltBfon. 1. It is good for the mourner, It is good for the mourner, It is F — ^_V- -F--—F V — » t= F -iX— rf- V — f: -Is — #+*• 1 — -F — F- — i -V—V- 2. It will carry you home to heaven, It will carry you home to heaven, It will carry you home to heaven It is good enough for me. Cho.— Oh, this old time religion, &c. 3. It brought me out of bondage, &c. Cho. — Oh, this old time religion, &c. 4. It is good when you are in trouble, &c. Cho.— Oh, this old time religion, &c. 192 No. 37 . ®t)e Virgins. M • * * 1 1 1 1 0 -*—■—3 — d- -0 FT ■ T P eIeS 1. Five of them were wise when the bridegroom came, mi± F4=t -< 2 - Five of them were wise when the bride -groom came. 1^- m Fi 'zr ‘T it Suffices: ~± Repeat, pp :zs: — i- m -S 1 - 0 Zion, O Zion, 0 Zion, when the bridegroom came. g:M: . -iS*- 0—&-~ qE=3T£== 0— s 0 9. 0 - S* 0 r - & fi — i— • • * • , j Li 1 -19- -%±V 2 I called to my mother, my mother hearkened to me, And the last word I heard her say Was, save me, Lord, save me, Clio . — And I wish that heav’n was a mine, Ac. 3 I called to my sister, my sister hearkened to me, Ac. Oho . — And I wish that heav’n was a mine, Ac. 4 T called to my brother, my brother hearkened to me, Ac. Cho. —And I wish that "heav’n was a mine, Ac. *95 No. 40 . Judgment totll finti pu so. — 9 — istjus—zg. 5=33 / v — Hr; • g~»— 9 g - 2 - Just as you live, just so you die, And af - ter death, m i — r«2- f — 9- r &~i—9— <2- r r2-v-»- J__ _l_. -i2- ■| — -# (2 U m L 1 ' "I m . 0 m ' □ 3 i 1 | 0 fm v r T ■ & J J 9 v-y .. . L 9_ & 9 : f ■ ■ . 2 . r ~ r * watch and pray, Judgn -M- Cf -#■ r i lent will find you so, For £2. r\*" r W r « - MH L | 0 V L b — b b— 1 * * " -fcftr— =— = "t i 1 ” r - * i i 1 fm ff * <2 2 i “I L L 1 * s* •7 9 Zs ' ^ J Satan’s round you ev - ’ry day, Judgment will find you so. JL. g2_ 1 | r r « m qj T.Jfii — T C r _+L — L[ 1 f — 2 The tallest tree in Paradise, Judgment will find you so; The Christian calls the tree of life, Judgment will find you so. Cho . — Just as you live, &c. 3 Oh 1 Hallelujah to the Lamb, Judgment will find you so; The Lord is on the giving hand, Judgment will find you so. Cho. — Just as you live, &c. No. 41. Ihe’s tbe Utlg of tlje Uallej) A- jr-T- EH CE2: :-r4— He’s tbe K fcr li - ly of tbe val - ley, Oil ! my n +r > — r •-y- T“ -<5>- rz r-f®*- •&- “I — -I — 9* N 9 — - ■ -_h i -H £ — 1 __! — 1 1 -u p-r-f f -* 1 — -75 — & — L(22 ^ — ^•11 y y He’s tbe li ly of tbe val- ley, Ob, my Lord; i5>- £=E: E£ n :a: ■9 :e : m -V- 1111 : l ... 1 .. ^ / ■ ^ 1 & . 1 firs ? & w # # # r d ... J 9 0 & & 1. King Je - sus in tbe chariot rides, Ob ! my - * # _ 9 _ # * <2 Lord; With • £i I t i i i r ex r ! ----- -> 1 1 1 I ■ o' D. C. ______ 1 1 1 1 1 2 - 2 2 . . | w w m w # J • 1 t ~ i four white hors - es side by side, Ob ! my Lord. # £> £» & _ _ Q. . 5 r e ^ r ^73 • • 1 | 1 1 r _ . L ' f? •. L 1 . L L . s 22 j L_ — J 2 "What kind of shoes are those you wear, Ob ! my Lord ; That you can ride upon the air Ob ! my Lord. Cho. — He’s tbe lily of tbe valley, &c. 3 These shoes I wear are gospel shoes, Oh ! my Lord; And you can wear them if you choose. Oh ! my Lord. Cho. —He’s tbe lily of tbe valley, &c. 197 No. 42 prepare us. §4 V -H- bii : -s~ 3 i -N— i Pre - pare me, Pre - pare me, Lord, Pre - pare me, When i: r 4 — • — »■ y— : -l =; «*- y #- -i — f- - 0 - ■g- -y- -0- - 0 - H=l= 1 = 1“ 4V -4s- -&■ . death shall shake this frame. * 1 1. As go down the n stream of time, When death shall shake this frame, I’ll d. a _D- . ’ -T r~A fffw y j it ' p k n “N ~p “P \M7 & & zl zl e ' ■ . - s . 1 ^ * * -&■ -0- * 1 u leave this sin- ful world behind, When de f ? r r y y y y ath shall shake this 1 * * * rame. 0 -\ — n 1 T 1 *■ j v / Li /m y w x . L, r— H H j 2 The man that loves to serve the Lord, When death shall shake this frame; He will receive his just reward, When death shall shake this frame. Clio .— Prepare me, &c. 3 Am I a soldier of the cross, When death shall shake this frame; Or must I count this soul but lost, When death shall shake this frame. Clio . — Prepare me, &c. 4 My soul is bound to that bright land, When death shall shake this frame ; And there I’ll meet that happy band, When death shall shake this frame. Clio . — Prepare me, &c. 198 Ho, 43. Mn Stfjto te on ti )t ©ceatt. SBzfctzt My ship is oil the ocean, My ship is on the ocean, My y y ship is on 0 . v~ •&- • e_ o - cean, Poor sin - ner, fare - you - well. V -0 -y- HI r A- — N 1 — f — # — - 0 - r: -r- N- -0- v : i- -K- A- — I- y v i V 1. I’m go - ing a - way to see the good old Dan-iel, I’m a 0 -0. .a. JL. ~nz 0 a - -y — i y — y £L • IL -f\- aijZZZr a: 0 - « V— go - ing a - way To see my Lord. 2 I'm going to see the weeping Mary, I’m going away to see my Lord. Qlio .— My ship, &c. ?> Oil ! don’t you want to live in that bright glory ? Oil ! don’t you want to go to see my Lord ? Cho . — My ship, &c. I 99 No. 44. JWarct ©it 1^1 :p: & 2 : _# 2: 2 : '“V IV — I- -W- 1/ vs* 1. Way o- ver in the E-gypt land, You shall gain the — 0 — 0 - \ — *- 0 0 0 -- 0 - -r 1 bh V_ V — V g - m You shall gain the day. March on, and you shall gain the 2 When Peter was preaching at the Pentecost, You shall gain the victory; He was endowed with the Holy Ghost, You shall gain the day. Cho. — March on, &c. 3 When Peter was fishing in the sea, You shall gain the victory; He dropped his net and followed me, You shall gain the day. Cho . — March on, &c. i King Jesus on the mountain top, You shall gain the victory; King Jesus speaks and the chaLot stops, You shall gain the day. Cho . — March on, &c. 200 I No. 45. jWg Mag’s (ffiloutig. 0 • 9 - 0 0 -N- -N- # . r g ■ i — — * -fc i- 1 my way’s cloud-y, my way, Go send them an - gels down. S— 4- •£- •&- ' ■£- - 0 - =F : r: 0- V- f 0 -0- -V- b 3 1. There’s fire in the east and fire in the west, Send them angels down, And 2. Old Sa - tau’s mad and I am glad, Send them angels down, He 3. I'll tell you now as I told you before, Send them angels down, To 4. This is the year of Ju - bi - lee, Send them angels down, The z v— v — b— F — 3— fire a - rnong the Meth - o - dist, O send them an - gels down, missed the soul he thought he had, O send them an- gels down, the promised land I’m bound to go, O send them an -gels down. Lord has come and set me free, O send them an - gels down. 201 No. 46. 9&ttie on, fthtg Jesus. Ride on, King Je - sus, No man can a bin - der me, -GL -~N~~ -i — i— i 1- P—X1 1 :q:z=H^ Ride on, King Je sus, No 4- man — r — N - _4 1 — a — —f- — i- — L can a -#• binder me. i L_ 0— 3: 0 — <#- 4— p — ‘-3— F — =+ — n-h i— 9~g— "4 53 £ 1. I was but young when I begun, No man can a hinder me, But D. a 3 0 — 0 X qr3==53=i4 5 I - 0 - -»■ - 0 - -&• now my race is almost done, No man can a hinder me. 2 King Jesus rides on a milk-white horse. No man can a hinder me; The river of Jordan he did cross, No man can a hinder me. Cho . — Ride on, &c. 3 If you want to find your way to God, No man can a hinder me ; The gospel highway must be trod, No man can a hinder me. Cho .— Ride on, &c. SMIjat feint* of sijoes are pu going to toear? No. 47. V — P- 5 £ &- f ._) \ j i ^ H c m o # ’ V— V— 4 1. What kind of shoes you going to wear? Golden slippers! 2. What kind of crown you going to wear? Star-ry crown! 3. What kind of robe you going to wear? White robe! 4 . What kind of song you going to sing ? New song ! nn #: Si f T * Published In sheet form, with piano accompaniment, by John Church & Co Cincinnati. 202 pfe A. - 0 . $ A- •p— N M. ^ I 0 ♦ 0 v 1 s f > / • 9 9 v ~N— ~ N— H 0 — 0 0 0 i_ 0 _ What kind of shoes you going to wear? Golden shlippers! Golden shlippers I’m What kind of crown you going to wear? Starry crown ! Star-ry crown I’m What kind of robe you going to wear? White robe ! Long white robe I’m What kind of harp you going to play ? Golden harp ! Gold-en harp I’m - 0 -* - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - j=±a - 0 _ 0_0 0 - P P P P 0 - * -0 — 0 — #_ 0 • I ul i J 1 A 1 -P— v — v— V — P- p : : F: : e 0 - 0 - P -N-- & P *s- — i 0 0 ^ -fv * 3 0- - 6 / -N- 0 a- -fv 0 - 4 -^: bound to wear, That out-shine the glit - ter - mg sun. bound to wear, That out-shines the glit- ter -ing sun. bound to wear, That out-shines the glit - ter - ing sun. bound to play, That out-shines the glit -ter -mg sun. Yes, yes, 2: b ' -i 1 — 1 “1 — — /si — 73 # S -V - 0 - - 0 - 9 - 9 - - 9 - - 0 - 9 0 - -tf- 1- - 0 - i> P i Yes, yes, my Lord, I'm going to join the heavenly choir, jbl — m ( > 1 ' 1 1 1 1 I 1 l 1 a a & » e ■■ is? - £r W — Lj i-j - - u u 3 a u Yes, yes Repeat pp 203 No. 49. iWarj) anfc Jflartfja. 1. Ma-ry and a Martha’s just gone ’long,Ma-ry and a Martha’s -0- - 0 - j?~2 — \ j — \j — t£— -y — F — F — i ri i — — — r ~i — i — — — r~ ~ < 0 — g — ^ — 0 — 0- ^ ^ P just gone ’long, Ma - ry and a Mar- tha’s just gone ’long, To 9 : T~ - 0 - t-y — v- -y- £=EE ring those charming hells; Cry-ing free grace and dy-ing love, — i 1 1 r- -E u -1 — (9- &- 0 -jg- 4 — £ A ■V=TA m ring those charming bells. Oh! way o-ver Jordan, Lord, Way o -ver 0 _ _ - 0 - 1 &- - 0 - - 0 ~ «- ±r T' T“ T * !©> #" =tZZt-££t 0—&- 0 0 - ~ t ■4'- -i 1 1 |=RPE? 204 r F, — i — I OT=J===-FFT: I V w~. — w — — -j I— * — — a ~r+ — 0 — 9 — i i Jordan, Lord, Way over Jordan, Lord, To ring those charming bells. 9- »- +- 0 — (55* r * — i 1— -0 & \-0 & 0- :r- _c: 1E3EE3EEBEE: | #- “I ;-H- i 2 The preacher and the elder’s just gone ’long, &c. To ring those charming bells. Cho. — Crying, free grace, v S v ! a S ZT ^ ^ ^ 17 S v ^ s 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 * • 0 * 0 0 L^ 1 — 1 soon- er in the morning, I ain’t a going to die no more. 2 Going shouting home to glory sooner in the morning, &c. Cho . — Oh ! ain’t I glad, &c. 3 Going to wear the starry crown sooner in the morning, &c. Cho . — Oh ! ain’t I glad, &c. 4 We’ll sing the troubles over sooner in the morning, Jkc. Cko.— Oh ! ain’t I glad, &c. 205 No. 51. (Setting l£eatig to Die. n ^ 111 1 l-lMf-O. ; -4— - 3 ^ 1— - _ 1 J — 1 i 1 — « % ' * -9 — & 4 — — 1 1 — 0— * z? j j - & a s J Get - ting read-y to die, Get -ting read-y to d: Li _i - - 8 L*? jq - _j 1 _i 1 1 0 — 1 — & — . J -S -9- die, Get - ting read-y to die, O Zi - on, Zi - on, 1. When I set out, 1 1 _| _J | 1 1 1 i , 1 1 ' 9 — L — ^ L_ L » — & — 0 — I was but young, Zi - on, Zi - on, But d. a now my race ~ . tt - J j 1 1 . 1 I - 1 - 1 | J a — ~ & 4 ^ M 0 - is al - most run, Zi - on, Zi - on. 2 Religion’s like a blooming rose, Zion, Zion, And none but those that feel it knows, Zion, Zion. Cho . — Getting ready to die, &c. 3 The Lord is waiting to receive, Zion, Zion, If sinners only would believe, Zion, Zion Chorus. 4 All those who walk in Gospel shoes, Zion, Zion, This faith in Christ they'll never lose, Zion, Zion. — Chorus. No. 52. (General i&oll. ISlidd: 0 . 0 - ~N~K -a—' — --N- . — N — . V — | K, N-#— 1*11 be there, I’ll be there, Oh when the general roll is called, =1 — S, — 1 N — -~ S-0-. — PS-#- -0 0 I'll be there. 1. O hal - le - lu - jah to the Lamb, The general 2. Old Sa - tan told me not to pray, The general rr s \w -N -N -N * * * - "TS N -p * i ' = S “ — 0 — 0 . —3- — 0 — -4 — ^ - 0-.—0 roll is called, I’ll be there; The Lord is on the roll is called, I’ll be there; He wants my soul at d. c. giv - ing hand, The general roll is called, I’ll be there. Judgment Day, The general roll is called, I’ll be there. 206 No. 53. E’m ftroubleij in JHinb. [The person who furnished this song (Mrs. Brown of Nashville, formerly a slave), Stated that she first heard it from her old father when she was a child. After he had been whipped he always went and sat upon a certain log near his cabin, and with the tears streaming down his cheeks, sang this song with so much pathos that few could listen without weeping from sympathy: and even his cruel oppres- sors were not wholly unmoved.] jL 4- j i i & — | — — i — ; - . > 1 | 1 - 12 ^ -f9- Y-* - 1 #— * & , — i i_ 9 TSr-ltL I’m troubled, I’m troubled, I’m troubled in mind, If Jesus don’t * 9 9 — it — — 1 — . — Hi: 1 0- J help me, I sure - ly will die. 1.0 Je-sus, my Saviour, on n ( zn . j — ~T1 -“n T — _ & 9 0 '9 , - L. — 0 thee I’ll depend, When troubles are near me, you’ll be my true friend. 2 When ladened with trouble and burdened with grief, To Jesus in secret I’ll go for relief. Cho. — I’m troubled, &c. 3 In dark days of bondage to Jesus I prayed, To help me to bear it, and he gave me his aid. Cho , — I’m troubled, &c. No. 54. E’m going to Elbe toitf) Jesus. ! .. V rN — n ri — . r N-, JLr V ‘ W a .. ... 0 J 0 -0 N, 1 - j N fe-8 - - 0 —0— - lY 0 0 9 0 ! ~ 0 - 1 " -M L-0 — 0—" J 1. I’m going to live with Je-sus, A soldier of the Ju-bi-lee, I’m 2. I’ve started out for heaven, A soldier of the Ju-bi-lee, I’ve 3. I know I love my Je - sus, A soldier of the Ju-bi-lee, I -Jk d A z * r=N~i i ^ i s s & a - 1 — — L ^ — «■ w 9 9 going to live with Je - sus, A soldier of the cross, start -ed out for heaven, A soldier of the cross, know I love my Je - sus, A soldier of the cross. when you get there re - member me. A soldier of the cross. 20 7 No. 55. ftccn in tig ^torm so long. II Ilf Chokus. Ifoz: m — hHS " 0 '“K — — e # - 1 — — K K' — ts V -#-=*-=£3 I’ve been in the storm so long, I’ve been in the storm so long, children, I’ve 1st time. K T--K- -h- i^iz^szzr • been in the storm so long, Oh! give me lit - tie time to pray. . . I’ve — = HS — 8' -fs r it □ e e & & ! — v~V — pray. 1. Oh! let me tell my mother 2. Oh! when 1 get to heaven, 3. I’ll go in - to heaven, V 1 /- how I came a - long, Oh, I’ll walk all a - bout, Oh, and take my seat, Oh, V V- give me lit - tie time to pray, give me lit -tie time to pray, give me lit - tie time to pray, With a hung down head and an There’ll be no - bo - dy there to Cast my crown at d. c. ach - ing turn me Je - sus’ heart, out, feet, Oh, Oh, Oh, give give give me me me lit - tie lit - tie lit - tie time time time pray. pray. pray. No. 56. cfjaln tig Hunt tioton. — tn ~ T? , N 1 s in J r 0 i 9 # .0 9 - m • 2 — K — i- ir-« : 5 Z Go, chain the li - on down, Go, chain the li - on down, Go chain the li - on down, Before the heav’n doors close. 1. Do you N — N — ~jS — N- N — I PS — !— ■ A—f 3 0 — 0 ^ ^ N — k — N — N -N — S — N — N — Ps- f ft see that grand old sister, Come a wagging up the hill so slow, She d. a -fv -N — ^ — S- --N- -K- > — ~ ~m — . — -N— m wants to get to heav'n in due time, Before the heav’n doors close. 2 Do you see the good old Christians? &c. 3 Do you see the good old preachers? &c. 208 N o. 57. WLf\zn USoses smott ti)t WLattx. if t p if 0 - ver, When Moses smote the wa - ter, The sea gave ... . 0 — 0 — 0 — r 0 — 0-0 0 —0 fr 0 • —9 0 — — 1 i-j -0— -1 — LJ — 0 — 1 M — 0-±-0 -tr- y -0— -1 — — 0 — | —0 — I ± t 0 # • V ✓ 2 1 j - 2 J u L b — P P L l h — a - way. 1. 0 chil-dren ain’t you glad You’ve left that sin - ful ar - my? 0 chil-dren ain’t you glad The sea grave a - way ? 9 : h - Z->- - 0 - 9 - 0 - -I— V- V- EZI 9 1 * - -0 — j # # • y 1 U i 2. : □ You’ve left that sinful army ? 0 Christians ain’t you glad The sea gave away ? Clio. — When Moses smote, &c. 3. 0 brothers ain’t you glad You’ve left that sinful army ? 0 brothers ain’t you glad The sea gave away ? Cho . — When Moses smote, 209 No. 58 ©t)! jjtnnet plan. 3--*- • 1 — — a-'-- L— :pq=' -e- s —0 ( 9 - 1 Oh! & — 2?- sm-ner, 0—0T & I Oh! E=t j 1 -T5 0 ! l i 8 . »TJ _l \-s U-~ • 0 ~9~ sm-ner 0 & t=c: man, Oh ! sin-ner Oh ! -h <&- & -i H- - 0 ■ ~\ — *- •- If — K — -H t which way are you go-ing? 1. Oh! come back, sinner, and - 1 0 #-• 0-‘~0 0 — #-• — 0 - — 0 — 0 — 0 — , , r ^=Z=fZ=|_^_Z = > u 1 3 -G-rfc 1 — K v s -N- 1 ~V r -N — K — K W 0 m P ^ 0 0 0 8 • S • ’S 0 0 0 ° 0 9 ' ' ‘ 0 don’t go there, ^ /Inch way are you e 0'0' going ? For 0—0 hell is deep, and R-, p fc — - ■ b 1 t— H • 0 «» ^ u \ y v P 12 U 1 7 V P & . d. a jr -j T p ... . - -ft -K , Am r H y j j j 9 V 1 1 ffts P ? 0 9 9 * * • s j \J ^ ^ • j WWW dark des - pair. Oh ! which way are you go - ing ? Tl p r * v p pr 0 • 0 # /!> • 1 H y \ 7 * V j , u r s , -12 1 J • 2. Though days be dark, and nights be long, Which way are you going ? We’ll shout and sing till we get home, Which way are you going ? Cho . — Oh ! sinner, &c. 3. ’Twas just about the break of day, Which way are you going ? My sins forgiven and soul set free, Which way are you going? Cho. — Oh ! sinner, &c. 210 No. 59. ££b> sooii Hotii’s t*cen fjere. 2 0 sinners, where were you, &c. Clio. —My good Lord’s been here, &c. 3 O Christians, where were you, &c. Cho. — My good Lord’s been here, &c. 4 O mourners, where were you, &c. Cho . — My good Lord’s been here, &c. 211 No. 60 . & little more jFatti) tit Jesus. b = fc ^=f? t ^=5= £ 1 - All I want, All I want, All j t «- r-f: # 1 r ! \ . ■ -+-- F— a I want “J~2“ y 5 is a -T— *, r M ^ 1 — ?— y— V— is, IS, N V K JL Y K .. i. 7 ^ T ^ • - 7 — uSy 5 S N p u J J J m • « Hz r jw a 0 e • ! ^ $ $ 9 . i . y y y y y y y lit - tie more faith in Je - sus. f f i f f- # « 1 . When-ev-er we meet £“V I, J 0 e> # •! s s S W s * * U * j .8 s \ \ ! 2 y -* L — fcJ 63 L> > ^ you here we say, A lit - tie more faith in Je - sus, Pray ^=± - 7 — 5 -*- £- -i 1 — * -t- 0 - -I — -y- s — y — y- D. (7. what’s the order of the day? A lit -tie more faith in Jesus. S? S® 5? * • m i 1 1 +ii , c — % -| j j Tt# 0 W- ^ yj“ ^-9 — 5 5 ” — 5- -y— y— h — y— y — y— y— - 2 . I tell you now as I told you before, A little more faith in Jesus, To the promised land I’m bound to go, A little more faith in Jesus. Cho .— All I want, &c. 3. Oh! Hallelujah to the Lamb, A little more faith in Jesus, The Lord is on the giving hand, A little more faith in Jesus, Cho ,— All I want, &c. 4. I do believe without a doubt, A little more faith in Jesus, That Christians have a right to shout, A little more faith in Jesus. Cho . — All I want, &c. 5. Shout, you children, shout, you’re free, A little more faith in Jesus, For Christ has bought this liberty, A little more faith in Jesus. Cho — All I want, &g. 212 No. 61 . ©ft not olD pjataolj get lost? i jt-*- =3EEi= -A ! — I- 9 # • '~V — | 1 ■ > — C 91 ~ 9 1. I saac a ran-som, while he lay Up - on an al - tar bound, Mo- ses, an infant cast away, By Pharaoh’s daughter found. l¥ z :~3—~ : F = ^ bjfc±ijfczp=|i u r cszzzzj|-t:f-;=ig: I i l Did cot old Pharaoh get lost, get lost, get lost, Did -/&- • _ • i itet -0 - 0 - &=£= - 0 - 0 -0 0 0 - 0 - -9 - 0 - -y- (9-* r=FF" s_« 9 7 0 9 C £ not old Pharaoh get lost in the Red sea? 2 Joseph, by his false brethren sold, God raised above them all; To Hannah’s child the Lord foretold How Eli’s house should fall. Cho .— Did not old Pharaoh, Ac. 3 The Lord said unto Moses. Go unto Pharaoh now, For I have hardened Pharaoh’s heart, To me he will not bow. Clio.— Did not old Pharaoh, Ac. 4 Then Moses and Aaron, To Pharaoh did go. Thus says the God of Israel, Let my people go. Cho .— Did not old Pharaoh, Ac. 5 Old Pharaoh said who is the Lord, That I should him obey? His name it is Jehovah, For he hears his people pray. Cho— Did not old Pharaoh, Ac. G Then Moses numbered Israel, Through all the land abroad, Saying, children, do not murmur, But hear the word of God. Cho .— Did not old Pharaoh, Ac. 7 Hark! hear the children murmur, They cry aloud for bread, Down came the hidden manna, The hungry soldiers fed. Clio .— Did not old Pharaoh, Ac. 8 Then Moses said to Israel, As they stood along the shore, Your enemies you see to-day, You will never see no more. Cho . — Did not old Pharaoh, &c. 9 Then down came raging Pharaoh, That you may plainly see, Old Pharaoh and his host, Got lost in the Red Sea. Cho .— Did not old Pharaoh, Ac. 10 Then men, and women, and children To Moses they did flock; They cried aloud for water, And Moses smote the rock. Clio.— Did not old Pharaoh, Ac. 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, From Sinai’s smoking top, Saying, Moses, lead the people, Till I shall bid you stop. Cho . — Did not old Pharaoh, Ac. 213 No. 62 Sfi<estlhtg Jacob. s, V -fs — s- — — —m — — a ' 8 « _ Let me go, Ja - cob. — (® — | — ® ? P_Lv p f -y- -i — -y; will not let thee go. * 9 - :£= rr\ Let me go, Ja - cob. I will not let thee go, Un : b- Jl -) — :y: -i — -y- -# -i — til thou bless me, I will not let thee go; Un - mtr- til thou bless me, 4t - 0 - -i — — i- - 0 - -H y- will not let thee go. r — , * y y- Wrest - ling Ja - cob, Ja - cob, day is a -break -ing, 17 k <» * » ' M .... $ J -J V — z. b 1 N v b i 1 1 — m v 0 0 J • Wrest- ling Ja - cob, Ja - cob, I will not let thee go. I'll (Or this.) I’ll > N y ■ 0 - * * — #- y - y- -I — r Ajir 12 — m a — N - s U-K- s , — 35-1 -fs - "P- # —0 — W — ? * " p -9 -4 # — t& 5 • £3- S ' r“ y — y ~y y y ^ 9 v ® • hold thee till the break of day, I will not let thee go, Un - wres - tie till the break of day, I will not let thee go, Un- e * ,s to - - ^ $=-?- # 1 -1 J -a — a --- t.l ■■ L. -J— i ^ — v— Ly — V- 1/ . y i 1). G - T b s .S. K . b . S J 0 0 0 0 0 m M 0 0. 0. %- f, tw- n i . . ^ v s 2 2 . - LJ y y y y ✓ ^ - til thou tell me what’s thy name, I will not let thee go. til thou come and bless my soul, I will not let thee go. _ 0 - 0- e _b ft V. _ - i— - . ^ «9 J i ! J 2 9 ~ H sought the Lord, Je - sus will come by’nd-bye ; And a 3=S a — # - id— it Chorus. 22L "sr~0- — — U — & D. Q. inch by inch He bless’d my soul, Je-sus will come by’nd-bye. 2 The Lord is coming to take us home, Jesus will come by’nd-bye ; And then our work will soon be done, Jesus will come by’nd-bye. 8 Trials and troubles are on the way, Jesus will come by’nd-bye ; But we must watch and always pray, Jesus will come by’nd-bye. i We’ll inch and inch and inch along, Jesus will come by’nd-bye ; And inch and inch till we get home, Jesus will come by’nd-bye. 220 No. 68. 3 ain’t got toearp pet. gp 2~ 4= « • ft :^v=ijvHV:Hv S'*' H r 4: rJ v 1 2 3 — y — y- «* — -- r=s= Ft -p- And I ain’t got weary yet, And I ain’t got weary yet ; Been & • 0 N N • -Fr -y- --A — h 53 ■y— y- — ft? — -r~ o 0 -0-0 0 0 ■ W* — 1 — 0 — L • [j o i r r. r Jts • | - ir f : 4 j n ‘ • Q —j ip zp i r n • 1 J J IT • n fl 1 1 « _ s . S a a J — . L, • J A ^ N- — fS— p> — S — i- -« — d — « — e 0 — a — 0 — a down in the val-ley so long. And I ain’t got wea - ry yet. & & * 0- 0 0 • . Lu — - 0 — 0 - 0 0 - -u-iy- W A W. V. I j ✓ ✓ ✓ ^ v — y- f — w y |y ft y t= Solo. Chobus. i Q T~A-r -N-A--A-A-A-iK.^z^±zpi>p:^r 0—0—0 *-z-r=t L y— y— y- >:l §i 1. Been praying for the sinner so long, And I ain’t got weary yet ; ;fr__ 7 — f- _p 0. I=b= rjg p — ^ ^ ~ H-. — r t*=U==tz==U= Duet. 2>. (7, :g=zj— 5 — * =K -^Fp— - — " II y y i y y Been praying for the sinner so long, And I ain’t got weary yet. "LL ** _ M J* fi 0 — v a f- y _ 1 F — * — F#- I I * L I, I, I, y y y y 2 Been praying for the mourner so long, &c. 3 Been going to the sitting-up so long, &c. 221 No. 69. iKun to Jesus. [This song was given to the Jubilee Singers by Hon. Frederick Douglass, at Washington, D. C., with the! interesting statement, that it first suggested to him the thought of escaping from slavery.] h£— 4- =1 - - M . " ' JC" ' —4 ufc a. i j 5 u » • 2 f - J 1 -fr-' 6 * \ * ^ & ® & — 1 Run to Je » sus, shun the dan - ger, I J — _v B J K _ .... $ B 2 v n a' & • 0 * I IL U ° & J 0 ® J • L W~ don’t ex - peet to stay much long - er here. 1, He will m ibfc 0 — F- ■9 — 1> >- J I be our dear- est friend, And will help us to the end ; — i — -v a - — N-j- a — « 0 — *- =F=f ^7 *0-0 m a don’t ex-pect to stay much long - er here. Run to Je - sus Sf --N =15 =h=N~ — P j K — 2* 0 * • J* 0 ^ -j . 1 j m-u — 0 . 0 L - 0 — -J shun the dan - ger, I don’t ex-pect to stay much long-er hers. 2 Oh, I thought I heard them say, There were lions in the way. I don’t expect, etc. 3 Many mansions there will foe. One for you and one for me. I don’t expect, etc. 232 No, m angels toaiting at tfce SDoo& ■gi-2- r r 1. My sis - ter’s took her flight and gone home, And the 2. She has laid down her cross and gone home, And, &c. 3. She has taken up her crown and gone home, And, &c. Birfchit; an - gels wait-ing at the door. My sis-ter’s took her •&- - p&*i |7p[ 1 — r, — EE t i B T-f— “V" i£ — -0 — | h - f— V y y— :^S 4c & jj g- 0 J- — P* -m- 1 N % #T-«- 9 -0-. -»■ £/• \ sa/ ^ i i flight and gone home, And the an-gels wait-ing at the door. 5&fefeE,t i =«= a ae- r- F^ p* r y z z £ • 0 £ • £ _ t»=f: — N — K- Vi “ts: + -n — 0 — •- -Z , — — i-j- v z- ISI Tell all my father’s children, Don’t you grieve for me ; ■0- -^2- iW- * -5'- 4 — -y- £ -f— --K — K- S 4=F=fs * * — - - — I t- - J # 0 I Tell all my father’s children, Don’t you grieve for me. %>;• r~t~c 223 No. 71. Sleep gout Lamps trimmeD. 1 [V > K_ • 1 IS 0 * ^ \r* J * * L# 3 /"--g Keep your lamps trimm’d and a-burning, Keep your lamps trimm’d and a- h -y-y: -K > S p~P 0 • T » * - ■.—f - 0 9 00 i-: 1 burning, Keep your lamps trimm’d and a-burning, For this work’s almost done. i Izj2 ■0—0 f- Brothers, don’t grow wea - ry, Brothers, don’t grow wea - ry. Preachers, &c. -tS -55- Fine , s £ ~V- -9 Brothers, don’t grow wea - ry, For this work’s al-most done. i-Q-pr "1 s -fv : _ K s s T ( 7 v P j I s v I ~0 ' H H fc; ■ 1 * * ■ l K V : * '0 -9 ^ 0 9 0 0 Keep your lamps trimm’d and a-burning, Keep your lamps trimm’d and a- M - 5 } N -IS- - 2 y y, „ * « hr- 0 0 E itrd burning, Keep your lamps trimm’d and a-burning, For this work’s almost done. — K K K N — N ^ =f< $ 5?“2 * ( H h i * # 9 0 0 - fS S FS — =J— FT fe: ’Tis re - lig-ion makes us liap-py, ’Tis re - lig - ion makes us We are climbing Ja- cob’s ladder, &c. Ev-’ry round goes higher and higher, &c. -§ ^“7 K S "fS — K P " K V 1 n V k, k. V P J 0 0 J- Pi j ii frn ' / -p , ^ 0 * r» 2 zj j ii W- 0 * L- 0 — 0 0 0 - -0 - '*>— 9 ii happy, ’Tis religion makes us happy, For this work’s almost done- 224 No. 72. me tfre C&ag. — — fy ° 7 5 ! (fi • C V 0 » 5 • p # • r r i ! l«* i ^ 1 1 V way ? Broth - er, have yon c way? Sis - ter, have you c way; Yes, my good ] J . J' J . J . j' • ome to ome to -iord, g- • J a ' r t m, a® 1 show show show I — & — % me me me ~V~ the the the -0- :£ i — way? way ? way. Show Show Show &- me me me the the the way how to watch and . . . pray ? « 225 i5 No. 73. 31’tic been BeDecmeti. I’ve been re - deem’d, I’ve been re - s. . s s, ■ r — r - n - jpw r-T ^ 0 «v V (V IP j 0 : 9 1 1 * 0 0 9 \. lj I j ^ I’ve been re -L * 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 UUUI/U££-£- - deem’d, I’ve been re - deem’d, I’ve been re > > > £ B • • p •?_ * S> t* l ; / \ 7 - « ® — « - f> — -2 1 — i_ h H h — P — b — b — P deem’d, . I’ve been re - deem’d, I’ve been re- -N- (9 % b — I— V 7 77 f r f f \j \j \j ✓ ✓ ^ ^ b b b b " deem’d, I've been redeem’d, I’ve been redeem’d, I’ve been redeem’d, I’ve been re 3 h f s h -& -Ch -0- -Ch £- h !“ i s jb & e> & 3=3: -p—p — *. "b~~ b~ b~ b - b b b b deem’d, I’ve been re - deem’d, I’ve been re a -&&- -0- -9- I . I i h ✓ U -9 1/ ... / r V k =— Fw F*r deem’d, I’ ve been redeem’d, I’ve been redeem’d, I’ve been redeem’d, I’ve been re • JS ,S N S -e- -e- -9- s- Bv — ij 3 = 5 - -p-£?-p-p- 3=^ W-b^b - deed’d, jfw. jfer r * =F= ^ - 1 fe rt^ — h 1 K N — Fh — h — K- — 1 fl r r r i" rr U- J deem’d, I’ve been redeem’d, Been wash’d in the blood of the Lamb. I I s M h -g - -1 « • e — N- ■ "" ■■■■ » j v i » * S X it 1 BSi J b w r r h— # F r , i iLU * j " ' Ir b ^ 1 f Been washed in the blood of the Lamb, There is a . . . . fount - ain. . . filled w r ith bio The dy - ing . . . thief re - joiced to se . Been od, Drawn e That CV -J* s* T«ar s \ s D. C* 122 -Z from Cal tlieir guilt my sins - ry... stains. * Da Capo in exact time. 22 ; No. 74. ©3e gfjall toalfe rfjro' the ClaUep. -^sF 3^i 3tac3b=fcz; fczafc »#» •#• ■■#■ a u t» 1/ \J u We shall walk- thro’ the valley and the shadow of death, We shall trtrt -S- tg walk thro’ the val - ley in peace ; If Je-sus Himself shall b&otiF 9 r, — g— 1 ^— p — » — ±h ~3 — r ‘ 1 Ife r Bz: -» q — h -f=-P *> i __ ? f lead - er. We shall walk through the val • ley in peace. W- £ i i £ f-^TT =n=J=3 r~£r U b r We shall meet those Chris-tians there, meet them there, We shall £ £ f= "b b il -G i -p-*. — - !# J 5 g — J — , 1 P — 3 — a> — : -si i j*' ! 1 meet those Chris - tians L -£ f ^ 3 _ .r-S the ■f G 5 f sre, meet them there ; 1 ► f* -P- 1 r f PV-f — f ► ^ p \ : s ^ £ £-... — 1 |±z 2 t b b — r ’ _j 228 q s - ft v y \ ■ -r? J j j - J P N 1 c K -FN — 0 0 0 -9 w 9 ' ® 9 9 - Je • bus Him -self shall be our 1 ■ 0 - -e- - 0 - - 0 - ~ - 0 - i .0 & ead - <: -tb jr, We shall *- f- f- w * * '? — > * * — = r ^ £ t in :.h -h -t, h h — — !# a b H v \ y y v v y y r r H r t> — b 2. || : There will be no sorrow there, :|| If Jesus Himself shall be our leader. We shall walk through the valley in peace. Chorus. — We shall, &c. No. 75. ©afetiel’s Crumpet's going: to Otota. (As sung by Miss Jennie Jackson.) " lift _ft_^ =£s ift ~\~3=r- -ft 9* J' 0 «/ .*.• :J -L: 1. Gabriel’s trumpet’s going to blow, By and. by, ly and by; Yes, \ -0 - -* - \ S v 1 1 WT/ 9 • 0 0 9 • 9 • 9 ^ ^ -4S i Ps J » : ® . — - Gabriel’s trumpet’s going to blow ’ At the end of time. 2 . Oh, get you all ready for to go By and by, by and by ; Oh, get you all ready for to go At the end of time. 3. Then my Lord will say to Gabriel, By and by, by and by ; Go, get you down your silver trum- At the end of time. [pet, 4. The first sounding of the trumpet for the righteous, By and by, by and by ; The first sounding of the trumpet for the righteous A t the end of time. 5. Go, wake the sleeping nations. By and by, by and by , Go, wake the sleeping nations it the end of time. 6 . Then, poor sinner, what will you do ? By and by, by and by ; You’ll run for the mountains to hide you, At the end of time. 229 No. ?6. iLotrD, 31 toisf) 3f ftao a*come. 2. There’s no temp-ta - tions in the heav - ens, There’s 3. My fa - ther and my moth-er in the heav - ens. My fa- -f 1 — 9 - -is S N N “fr r — - & 7 S fS N K > Si y. *> v « 6 0 9 *CJ . * -j- 4 4s' wish I had a - come when you call’d me, Lord; I no temp-ta - tions in the heav - ens, There’s ther and my moth - er in the heav - ens. My fa - . . s iN , — r ? p K JS p J S C H m m r \ 5* 7 & " 9 8 ~ -1- -4 wish I had a - come when you call’d me, no temp - ta - tions in the heav - ens, ther and my moth - er in the heav - ens, :h ^ w J 1 r~ — — *— = S--1 a _£ _Q —11 f. . K -ft J _ gs ^ J v U n ^ i IS z 0 9 m U * :.-i ? £ ~d Sit -ting by tb3 side of my Je - sus. Way o-verin the heav - ens, Way o -ver in the heav - ens, W r ay o - ver in the I :w 5E zt I heav - ens, Sit -ting by the side of my Je - sus. No. 77. Ifil Deep EUtier. Deep . . . riv-er. My home is o - ver Jor- dan, Deep. . . . f VP H — ^ r~" - — ^ ^ V- jr~ tor ^±=i=z^^Et=t^=^ P TT riV'er, Lord, I want to cross o- ver in-to camp-ground, Lord ; I 230 want to cross o - ver in - to camp- ground Lord, I want to cross o - ver in - to camp - ground, Lord, I want to cross o - ver in - to camp - ground. 1. Oh, don’t you want to go to that Gos - pel - feast. That 2. I’ll go in - to heav-en, and take my seat, 3. Oh, when I get to heav’n. I’ll walk all a - bout. There’s t-n-jk i L f firfr- «f . , D X \ X w 11 J 1 r . x ~ J' . .. x N • # . dS 9 0 d- IS K & • Q prom - is’d land where all is peace ? Lord, I Cast my crown at Je - sus’ feet. Lord, I nobody there for to turn me out. Lord, I I §J #■' pp I N- -«r . -K- want to cross o - ver in - to camp- ground, Lord, I want to cross o to camp- ground, Lord, I want to cross o - ver in - to camp- ground, Lord, I No. 78. 3[n &rig&t mansions a&otie. In bright mansions above, In bright mansions a-bove. Lord, I N- ^ in JLJl 11 « * J ' _J - S Si fm ,..TT # m ta • n or 1 ? — 1 11 ILLZ ■. . « i » J n bri| h & J Jn ■ IH ^ V want to live up yon - der, I * * : * f ght man - sions a - bove. i' J h fc • ! 1 A Tj ", o~. 9 - n j* i 1 1 Ui ■> y - 5 ii — a — [ t — » * • i: — E Jd 232 No. 79 . LotD, tofmt a 8 ©ourntn&. - 1 IS s -\ 1 N 4- F 1 « 4 - S >jr- -a - — 1 - ^ 1 S X - -0 -0- - 3t- 3 My Lord, what a mourning, My Lord, what a mourning. • — «< ! r 0 — ^ -t sz. # T - t g — 0 4 1 1 y ? x - -* 1 £2.* r=r 4s- — 1 _v. 4s-4s — VM7~ 72 — 0— —4— --I 4- — 0 — 0- s — 0 — % 0 V 1/ r r —0 0 • P u — 6 — & 1 0 ^ 1. You’ll My Lord, what a mourning. When the stars begin to fall. J 2. You’ll S.You’ll *• 0 0 .. A & . S. B:iu — 7- 0 0 (9-v -a — ou LOU ho • @ nd To wake the rn, To wake the ut, To wake the . nations un-der ground, nations un-der ground, nations un-der ground, - » ' tT -ft-j 1 |_ ----- ■ -n — ! n i 5 0 di j ^ J - 1 V- \y 43 A - «£ • J .« . . - 1 Looking to my God’s right hand, When the stars be-gin to fall. _ .... . « &- a • c 0 0 0 *■ SB . L £ L L_ - % j S *1 . r ^ 1 1 -‘T — A . S • • a m e _ . I ! 1 IS 1 1 2 33 No. 80. 2Be are climbing; tbe JJnlte of ^ion. (As sung by Miss Jennie Jackson.) Slowly. We are climbing tlie hills of Zi-on, the bills of Zi-on, the hills of Zi-on, We are climbing the hills of Zi-on, No. 81 . ©b, toasn’t tfjat a totflc fibber? a * J ! ! N 2 £ • 2 2 £ r * • ' — - — r Oh, was - n’t that a wide JL JL JL M. JL J&- nv - er, J- *- §!it- -i — : 5 = V -! — -tf- £ s Vr riy - er • J. JL t - i r -fc of J- -fr ::bt I pi a & * ; 3Z- £ -1- T 5t= Jor - dan, Lord? wide . . . riv - er 1 There’s - f- i 0~ S JL • -€• — fl 3 rv* m 1— r w -4— 9 U- / ■■ — T" 1 j L ? £ h ~ 234 . ^ -> -ft -H- “A TS _S, .N. ij. j y • - - -1 - P . P -- _n <5 — -< 5 J F^y} a 8 mm** - r vfr) ® : j? 2 2 .€ - - U ^ y y r~ is so wide, fore me gone, Satan’s a - bout, snake in the grass. ► One mo re riv - e -f: -1 r t 0 9 - <=):-■ — j L ■ ■ ■ U e S- L J 9 _ « - fy d J ' y ✓ y -fi— ; ! - . __ fc m- N- Nr — j : i — 15—$- « • « „• y * j? If — 1 &- / lr cross ; I, . . . . cross ; By the cross ; cross ; If ... . * f i i i don’t know how to get on the grace .... of ... . God I’ll .... Shut .... your . . door and .... you don’t mind . . he’ll get . . . * * “3^ fc — 1 / 17 I D. C. -G— : K ~N 1 S, ^ K, iw- — - n n — i i P H ft — 0 0 fi # P gj •P b U 1 oth - er side; ' fol - low on ; 1 keep him out ; j you at last ; , — -o ' * ' ? ne more riv - er to ? t- -£ 1 P— It cross. — 0 rrrn 1 = r — ■ U |— S 7 -^7- P _ V. 235 LL.LL. I No. 82. 0 f' N 223 ap oaer Korean. 1 w — 1 — y — J -P— q “ .1 . -J 4-: -A— — 1 — 5= g — d - — Jk ft A =t $ 0 — L -e— -0 — & 0 40 - view the land ; Oil, way 0 . ver Jor - dan, View the land. C~\ 0 h r f * 0 • ® & m p ■— F' F* F - t= P • p 5 ^ , L ✓ 1 P 1— I" — 0 -' — 0 — 0 — Tj A 1 -VI b H Way o - ver Jor - dan, Oh, view the heav’nly land. I n „ ... ^ s s n —V "" li rrTs ^ ® q WT7 1 ? P # * * « • J J _ft _P _P 1 -0-' * * -0- -§■ -0- l -0- want to go to heaven when I die. View the land, view the land ; To Oi • . - - & • £ &• 0 & » • » 0 7 ~ L r.-'-5 r 1 ? b t d -fl — „ „ k K s — h -fc £ . I D. 0. -ft -n -U- r- ft ft 1- 3 p ft m s- ft 1— 1 d— "d H 3 — --A- ' — ®i * d Ai- H ■ d 0 ■ 1 — d H J -0. * shout sal - va - tion as I fly. Oh, • • 9 * . — view the heav’nly land. R. * a* f£-MH a- • p — k-i— - y v 7 0 P - * • * L l - h — 4 ® — y ^ 1 , r 1 — 2 Old Satan’s mad, and I am glad, View the land, view the land ; He miss’d that soul he thought he had, Oh view the heav’nly land. Oh, way over Jordan, &c. 3 You say you’re aiming for the skies, View the land, view the land ; Why don’t you stop your telling lies ? Oh view the heav’nly land. Oh, way over Jordan, &c, 4 You say your Lord has set you free, View the land, view the land; Why don’t you let your neighbors be ? Oh view the heav’nly land. Oh, way over Jordan, &c, 236 No. 83. * .—0 « M - --ft- - 0 — 0 - heavenly home is bright and fair, We will sing the new song ; No 2. Jesus, my Lord, to heav’n is gone, We will sing the new song ; He „ A- A-' m -W=zK ft ft ft ft ft ft , . N N . B- 0 - u « n j j j n 2 TV P JL ■■ ® a 0 • 9 0 0 ! ~r — 4 B , • m 2 fm • i 4 i a* c? V V 1 / Ul 0 0 * •j a — r pain or sor - row en-ter there ; We will sing the new so whom I fix my hopes up-on; We will sing the new so A- A- * A- A- ng. > • r 1 .. - r r —0 — '0 — 1 1 0 0 — 1 1 F L -y y t £ F=- J 240 l£>att) Chats. No. 87. 1 — ^ ^ N > 1 ^ r---!- safest- ;=£ ^ -S — N- - 0 — • * 0 0 i= £ 5 L -^ — y « 0 * 1, The foxes have holes in the ground. The birds have nests in the air, The Christians have a hiding-place, But we poor sinners have none ; 2 Old Satan tempted Eve, And Eve, she tempted Adam ; And that’s why the sinner has to pray so hard To get his sins forgiven. 8 Oh, Methodist, Methodist is my name, Methodist till I die ; I’ll be baptized on the Methodist side, And a Methodist will I die. 4 Oh, Baptist, Baptist is my name, Baptist till I die ; I’ll be baptized on the Baptist side, And a Baptist will I die. 5 While marching on the road, A-hunting for a home, You had better stop your different And travel on to God. 241 l6 No. 88. rose from tfre IDeaD. He rose, He rose, He — ^ —j^H — N — \ — | „ — % =J:-S~ He rose, He rose, He rose. He rose, He rose from tlie dead ; He p r o # — ^ * « rf — — •* I (V (W * ■ 4 ^ ; 7 7 _ ® ® f r 4 L h-J UJ LI LI Li J L_l #-•- s> — & ’ *• He rose, rose, He rose, He rose, He rose. He rose from the dead ; He 'MzzJz V V He rose, U I EEK= rose, He r^se, -P • V .* s * rs - ' 1 inrT - t r T _ rT rose. He rose. He rose, He rose. He rose from tlie dead, And tlie p j7 - p — # L 94 - t -f — p— i — m f — 1 -# — -# — 1— r # - p P — 1_ j t- P — y-- - 14— b -y- A 1 H 1 — 1 Tl — y He y — — rose, y- y- y LJ y -y J -3 fc — * is ■ - i ■ —i LZ7>“q 2 & — 1 — —4 - — - H - J Lord shall bear ■4L JL • ■*— r -n- 2 His cbil - dren home. 1. Tlie tree, And the Lord shall bear His cliil - dren home. 2 Joseph begged His body, and laid it in the tomb, And the Lord shall bear His children home. 8 Down came an angel, and rolled the stone awav, An d the Lord shall bear His children home, 4 Mary, she came weeping, her Lord for to see, But Christ had gone to Galile* No. 89 <£>ootJ olD Cfjanot. Chorus, pp ^ ? - ( w y -3=3 1: 5 i nt # y y i U $ i Swing low, sweet char - i - ot, Swing low, sweet char - i - ot. 0 ‘ — » — 0 - 0 - 0 0 It -0 - 0 - m -y- M time . P^=&=i±S=3=iE£ rlt . I 0 0 f Fine. H - s=fc=ife: =P Don’t you leave me be-hind. -i g 00( * °] d c ^ ot / + s ™£ % , low > J ( 2. Good old chariot, take us all home, £ f-. i- £ljcrzfc_£ -0 — #-— -g — XL - 0 — 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 BEEEB=E §Hi P V V I a <5? -tf « “Nz-N-^ S-P=i* 9 9 i Good old chariot, swing so low, Good old chariot, swing so low. Good old chariot, take us all home, Good old chariot, take us all home, mr % i=fr±: _ 1 _. -0 % 0 — 0 — 0 — 0 - 0 0 0 0 - y— y— h- y— y— y— y— y— y— y - 244 i). c. Don’t you leave me be - hind. Oh, No. 90. y u» What a liap - py new year, What a hap - py new year, What a -0—0- - 0 - 0 -# 16- P P i -i — — i — -i — «?- t— r -| H ifcife; I 5# 3= 5-L-5 4 A 1- Fine, ZXI&L hap - py, what a hap - py, what a hap - py new year. JL •v — y- 7 -sS* y i — r — r - • / 2^8 2 As I go down tlie stream of time, Yes, my Lord ! I leave this sinful world behind, Yes, my Lordl 3 Old Satan thinks he’ll get us all, Yes, my Lord ! Because in Adam we did fall, Yes, my Lord 1 4 If you want to see old Satan run. Yes, my Lord ! Just shoot him with a Gospel-gun, Yes, my Lord ! No. 94. — P 1— — S' — C — -J m - — --pi — P» — pi — rv— fi — 0 — 0 — 0 — 0 — T * * ■ i in the bless-ed king-dom, If M. 4 L 4— ■j-** 4— 4— ■ J “~ _ ® 0—0 0—0 I don’t see you a - ny 1 r fZ ^ 0 S 00 . 1 nore. 1 ■ E ^ ^ ^ — gP S— — y — y — y — y W p, -0 0 y k t y f- M I?— p — £ & & P _ s? . y . ij u u u U J 'J J W W — IJ 2 We’ll part in the body, we’ll meet in the spirit, If I don’t see you any more ; So now God bless you, God bless you, If I don’t see you any more. Then good-bye, brothers, &c, 249 No. 95. Don’t pou grieue after me. —H. S, *y V- S — R- -& — a — m—- 0 — H- 3 £ -* — «- '0 0 H- sr ~ 'j 1. Oh, who is that a - com-ing ? Don’t you grieve aft - er me ; Oh, ft ft ft ft ft •*- m± — -4 #=#= -V — P- 0 - 0 - -V- ~b > — :#=::5=^=^=^=^=-^=^ j # * a K- — 0 f- * i s- t=^ : JL JL H=t ==i= -l» 0 0 ~U~~v , — 5 A ■*. A Jh ={===iEz=ti=r=E=E: (S’ ® * — 0 0 v — P- #=#=£=£ =t== - 0 - =*= H — r who is that a - com-ing? Don’t you grieve aft - er me; Oh, 0. 0 - 0—0 e_ 0 0 __E_ g=i^tgz=:£z=£ » 0 *=P who is that a - com- ing ? Don’t you grieve aft - er me, Lord, I % :s: * .•» :p: 5 * :p: =£ P — *- p ? -F P-- *- , P P P H a.« N v ^ . S , y — 1 .0 . (j . p h (m P - % 4 s w\ . 0 & Is V.M J . * my a e «/ e 0 » V don’t want you to grieve aft - er me. f- f- r a yP 0 0 . 0 0 r r~ r a n- C / Ci Ci r, f p. - ■ h £= z =* — p P few g - f— .... 2 It looks like Gabriel ; don’t you grieve after me, Lord, I don’t want you to grieve after me. 3 Oh, who is that behind him ? don’t you grieve after me, Lord, I don’t want you to grieve after me. 4 It looks like Jesus ; don’t you grieve after me, Lord, I don’t want you to grieve after me. 5 Go, blow your trumpet, Gabriel, don’t you grieve after me, Lord, I don’t want you to grieve after me. G How loud must I blow it ? don’t you grieve after me, Lord, I don’t want you to grieve after me. 7 Loud as seven claps of thunder ! don’t you grieve after me, Lord, I don’t want you to grieve after me. 8 To wake the sleeping nations ; don’t you grieve after me, Lord, I don’t want yctt to grieve after me. 250 No. 96 Eise anti ©fnne. m -X — X- — j. ■»- ■ 0 - 0 0 — K X — -j - 0 , 0 0 -0 a — 0 X- -X X X — N — X — X — X -0 0 — - X - -0 0 0 C - 0—1 Oil, brethren, rise and shine, and give God the glo-ry, glo - ry. • — • — * -t* b i Wzt — !s ji_ • * b ji blZii 8 s p — p — p — / — p — p — p-j :£=p: Then you must rise, &c. * s t -X -X — X -X T b j X- 2 - 0 * 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 ~ 0 ~‘ -£ 0 - -x- -0 — 0 - -0 0 - -X— -0 Rise and shine, and give God the glo - ry, glo - ry, £ u :t=: E— * — I 1 (=- br — b — t * — -a A z=f — 5 J - — /* — S j — U. S — v — v- -P- p -P ^ - i_o_ u J _x J _v K ' f s. IS., s. < jS Fine. m— X-JX — X — X — X" -j & -%—e — 0- . ■ \{ \) ^ (0 - . # 0 . — 0 & Rise and shine, and giv -0-' -0- -0-’ -0- -0- . cv u t t t hr- 0 — 0 — * — 0 — 0 - : -g— e God the glory, for th s- - 0 - £ £ £. f- r r d i=S --S::-S -s-r-i.d e year of Ju-bi - lee. - f-*- * - 0 — 0 — w . ; fc |2 p 0 rf ; l k ** x X- x-~x: ■T X ^ V S s, b,_ -X — pi — — i -iX— pi — -X — X X X- - X — i — 0 — 0 .—a — 0—0 — » a 0 ■ 0—0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 » & -X- X~ 7 * 1 . Don’t you want to be a sol-dier, sol-dier, sol-dier, Don’t you t -i 1 - ia s "r__p_p__p: :fi== v— >- * b — u — 25 1 year of Ju - bi - lee? 2 Do you think I will make a soldier For the year of Jubilee ? 3 Yes, I think you will make a soldier For the year of Jubilee ! Sing the three verses in succession, and after the third verse go lack to the leginning, and sing the words, ‘ 5 Then you must rise,” <&c. 252 No. 97. Jl2oto toe take tkls feeble BqDj>. [This hymn is much used at funerals, and especially while hearing the body and lowering it into the grave.] 1. Now we take tliis fee - ble bod - y, And we 2. Now we take this dear old fa - tlier, And we 3. Now we lift our mournful voic - es, As we N _s, _ — 0 0-0 0 - 0 - 9 “N 0 1 s _ — V-- - -V ; frV\ f U' ^ i j ^ . & d • J' IS s r m & car - ry it to the grave, And we car - ry liim to the grave. And we gather a-round tbe>grave, And we ' Q & all leave it there, Hal - le - all leave him there, Hal-ie - weep as we sing Hal - le - POT hr k — 1 v . . L 5 — r -K Kr jr S "N — K — q — — f 3 0 0 — N — K- fs -PS — PS — 1:5 — L - - 0 — 0 — d - 0 — a-%—0- \7Sr_ i a • # lu - jab, And a Hal - le - lu - jab, and a Hal-le - lu - jab, And we lu - jab, And a Hal - le - lu - jab, and a Hal-le - lu - jab, And we lu - jab, And a Hal - le - lu - jab, and a Hal-le - lu - jab, And we 0 — » — 5 — & - 0 — p~ ~t- I ¥ 0 -e- 4- -h--N t~rt pp zi:£ii^=^=n=:£ z===^!=^=fef5z±!: -0- -0- -0- -0- -0- all leave it tliere, Hal-le-lu-jab, And a Hal-le-lujali, and a Hal-le- al 1 leave bim there, Hallelujah, And a Hal-le-lujab, and a Hal-le- weep as we sing Hal-le-lu-jab, And a Hal-le-lujab, and a Hal-lu- 9- t - 0 - - 0 - -F — 0 - -0 0 - 0—0 &- - 0 — 0 — -v— fr-E E ■-£ -0—0—% 0—0 0 ~ W- P -T-i-W—f- -Yj P— h hr 253 -J ^ — I- - 0 - 4 — h 9 : £ I U U I s - ~ lu - jan, And we all leave it there, Hal - le - lu * jah. lu - jah, And we all leave him there, Hal-le - lu - jah. lu - jah, And we weep as we sing Hal-le - lu - jah. - 7 ? — H— — 0 — — « — 0 — t- -&■ £ No. 98 . ®bine, shine. ft ft- :_iN .zft zft — ift fra rf 5s 1 1 1 is a a 1 _u - 5 — F — — F 0 0 I24Z . 4 - a ^ - & ~l — y — 1. I. . . . don’t care where you bur - y my bod - y, 2 . You may bury my body in the E - gypt. . . . gar - den, 3 . I’m.. going to join.... the forty four-thou sand, 4 . Great big stars... way up.... yon - der. II -fa ^ ^ — ft “i — j A tT 0 F ® 0 U , W 0 J e 0 0 0 ~ ^ b y y y V y & — Don’t care where you bur - y my bod - y, Don’t care where you Bury my body in the E - gypt gar den, Bury my body in the Going to join the forty-four -thousand, Going to join the Great big stars. . way up yon der, Great big stars ifhfi 1 =N: r — — ft — 1 — 1 1 * 0 -ft zfv -jft -ft- " Ij ' Xr * — s — > — y J t • — — * — *3 l -0 J bur - y my bod - y, 1 L'-t^four thousand, [ 0 lit41e soul ' s S oin g t0 stine . ^ine, way up. . . . yon- der, ) l-$-% — -ft! — ft — ft — — ft — ft- |#W- Jf 4 ? J— ft ft It -ft -ft- z:q_ ■ 0 s “ft s. ' . 'ft “ft — H — * * - 0 s ft 9 0 — 0 9 0 - J O my little soul’s going to shine, shine, All around the heav’n going to \m ■ • --j — ft — ft ... ^ ft _p ft ». . ft ft , iS g - -| — i f (S » ^ i J±r*~ : -J 0 — Jj shine, shine, All a - round the heav e going to shine, shine, 254 No. 99 anchor in tfje iLorti. Fine. — f? • • fe fe. r . P - - N. - k. W- — p ■ k ~r _P fe _P _p J W 7 b jj ' F F & e p j J ' J -■ J J / wr Z F Yf — h h- S 2 » € 77 ' 9 9 - \ 7 e | • Throw your anch-or a - ny way, anch - or in the Lord. „ & ,■* « 9 • i. j L i **'’ d :=f £ --T -v v — l y — Y- -9--b — ^ K S ■ r v - J _4W- ■ kr-- : _ q -it-fe 1 1 V 1 V V V S v P _P J P A . J „ 3 j — l -M -4 - ^ ^ ^ - - _ * * # # * 1 -LJ-. — 1 Throw it t® my dear mother’s door, ) Throw it to my dear father’s door, > Anch - or in the Lord. Throw it to my dear sis-ter’s door, ) King Je - sus says lie will come a-gain, 1 King Je- sus makes the cripple to walk, >• Anck- or in the Lord \ King Je- sus makes the blind to see,) *&• ~0- * m t L V — i/- t i 1- - 0 - » 0 @ 1 — *a 1 _ 0 -T it D. C. -9 t- ■0 0 i-t il King Je - sus says he will come a-gain, ) King Je- sus makes the cripple to walk, v Anch- or in the Lord ; King Je- sus makes the blind to see, ) Ljzi— •«_ s V- * — * — 9 — 9- -1= — Is- ' P- J 0 - 4T. V — ]/- 1 No. ioo. koto’s ptager. Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed, be Thy name. Give us this day our dai - ly bread. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. -»g- -*g- Oi • /T? - ■ — 1 r— ^ i fy- -3 & _ i V i Thy kingdom come, Thy 1 will be done on \ earth as it is in heaven. And forgive us our tres- j passes, as we forgive . . J them that tresspass a-gainst us. For Thine is the kingdom, j and the power, and the f glory, for ever and ever. A - men. *2 _pL__^ r-F— r«-r a — fy — -cy — | f ~'2~ E? ~ " ? | V L P h— J H 1 — — U No. 101. 3[ofm "Breton's BoDg. [Sing the verses in the order in which they are numbered. Do not sing the chorus after the third verse, but go at once to the fourth, and then close with the chorus.] 1. John Brown’s bod - y lies a - mould’ring in the grave, 3. John Brown died . . that the slave. . . . might be free, *4. Now has come. . the. . . . glo - rious ju - bi - lee. John Brown’s bod - y lies a - mould’ring in the grave, John Brown died . . that the slave . . . might be free. Now has come . the .... glo - rious ju - bi - lee, A -| 4 0^ - 0 - -tt- S N ##3 John Brown’s bod-y lies a - mould’ring in the grave, But his John Brown died that the slave... might be free, But his Now has come the glo - rious ju - bi - lee, When all • * - — 9 9- * +- J — 1 ■ E 1 J — a 9 & • 0 • 0 . & • 9 9 • e> 0 • m 0 _ \J . . i — J l— |> L_ 1 J A I - Y v / / y V V J V \ V / soul’s marching soul’s marching man - kind are — t T5— T" ^ i^— K v ^ 0 — ; : - Glo • ry, glo - ry, Hal - le - S r-T — - * The words of the fourth verse do not correspond fully to the notes, but the adaptation can be easily made by the singer. 25 7 J 7 $ 7?- r •ins * • '/ * N — r»' 3 ±r: A, 1-- — ~ — fV-«-- — -.-a _.£_A -d— Ltf-:--j— _«— # lu-jali, Glo-ry, glo-ry, Hal -le - lu - j ah, Glo-ry, glo-ry, Hal - le- - f z=a=? i — r i — m—0 — #— * I 1 1 h/- y— y — v mmmm i | — R- — ipsz — J. t- H S -j T~ N 4 s _fc_ (S f*S Nr jT- — N-j— iP— — «i — # - — a — -^-*-7 H- (- «- r # L # — 5 — 0 — « — # — * — 3 ! lujah, His soul’s marching on. 2. He captured Harper’s Ferry with his :s: F-* :b=t=: 0S0MMMM cp b~ ' R Pi -1 — -*- -y- 5 ! 1 *-3-r-4 ^=^=t=^--4 > V V selves the trait -or crew. But his soul’s marching on. ?v — r — r r r_ - m • -m 'm & • 0 • 0 0 L J D. Z U u 1 — &■ rf-fe =t: Hpfea| 258 No. 102. Listen to tfce 3 ngels. -h Where do you think I found my soul, List-en to the an - gels -fs- ~n — p- H 1 — r — 4 — _p P- ■t-t- P Pi — N— . 2 ~P- - 0 - shouting, I found my soul at hell’s dark door, List-en to the an - gels it m A— P,- m J9Z19 3=i= 0 — #— 0 - shouting ; Be- fore I lay in hell one day, Listen to the angels shouting, I :z}s_ip-q hJ- ■ m A P ~P -^4^ -Pi- -is — l— ffi 3 J # # * 0 P P P P-tf 1 L 0—0 — 0 — 0 — 0 — sing and pray my soul a - way, List en to the an - gels shout-ing. List-en to the an - gels shout-ing. Blow, Ga - briel, blow, Blow, Ga - briel, r~N~ £ -p — -P — p — p -H— — p- — P — P — ^ — P- -0 — 0 — 0 — 0- Pi blow. Tell all the joy -ful news, List-en to the an -gels shouting. I -R Pi Pi P- j4=.4ll P — P — P — P -P — P — Pi - 0 — 0 - don’t know what sinners want to stay here for, List-en to the an - gels Brethren, will you come to the promised land, See arch, &c. Come all and sing with the heavenly band, See arch dbc. 259 No. 103 s®ot) e along. 4 — ^ h s — - N * N-- 1 -# — ap '—r-.—t -* — Fs- 3: — N — N- — I > — I — -j — 1 ^ — ' N — FS — P -a \ —0- - ft — l # ; — «— 0 — 0 — 0 — L - — # — #- b B r -K — N- V V Let us move a - long, move a - long, move a - long to the heav-en - ly -2- •h — f- -U- *-•_*—*- b 0~r' -1^ — R — — 1*— F— f 1 — fH FF— P 1 * 111 ■3 — ix- j 3 3 ^ 3 3 3 ^35— : -N-* g-T — > ~g J -J - -A ’P"T # " # ' y" I*"* m p y Fine. -4 — ■£-"£- s p u b 1 ' home, Let us move a - long, move a- long, I am hound to meet you there. E? •&- - 0 - . - 0 - - 0 - •&- - 0 '*' I N S N I £ — K— s 3 3 3 * •-* H — ‘— 3 . ^ — 1^- > ^ ^ ia it q S, _V_ V V V N r N N- Anr m * 0 0 0 (l ^ S 1 iP .. r r ~K ~fo 3 3 — ffn 3 3 _4_- L. j L. * j 1 1 1 n .3 j 3 • 0 y0 0 W 3 v - -V 3 3 3 v 3 - * • * 000 1. We are on the o - cean sail-ing, And a while must face the stormy 2. Yonder see the gold - en cit - y, And the light-house gleaming on the 3. There we’ll meet our friends in Je-sus, Who are wait-ing on the gold-en i! » » V=5-3 H- v — 0-' blast, But if Je-sus is our cap-tain, We will shore, Hear the an- gels sweetly sing-ing, Soon our shore, With a shout of joy they’ll greet us, When we • L 0 - 0- -0- IS b make the port jour-ney will meet to part 1 1 V at last, be o’er, no more. No. 1 04. Cfee angels cfrangco mg Bame. - S -N • < “r-Kj =i- — | — — 0 1 r 1 “1 0—0 0 0 * Y* w 0 • J 1. I went to tlie liill - side, I went to pray, 2. I looked at my hands and my hands were new, I know the know the an - gels done changed my name, Done an - gels done changed my name, I P : t =: changed my name for the com - ing day ; Thank looked at my feet and my feet were too; Thank Chorus. God, the an - gels done changed my name. ) -p. God, the an - gels done changed my name. J - uone |-§ ~~ 1 •' | . - — j __l s— i — i ML j U 0 & -1 V" " 0 • 0 0 • rr r 0 -2 n n — v -i U — J. ! changed my name for the com -ing day, I know the angels done a ...... s s. S 0 0 . a • b 0 r 0 0 • J J 1= y M - 4- XJ- J changed my name, Done changed my name for the com-ing day ; Thank God, the an- gels dene changed my name 'Bright sparkles in tfce C&urcfrgarD. No. 105. (As sung by the “Hampton Students.”) pM=±=q=p: •#— S — 5— - • 2 & \—0 May tlie Lord, He will be glad of me, . . . May the Lord, He -Tf-* ■ !► -0 £ :E p=^i=— wn p£iz=£zq ism jg— p_ — jgZE i t — r i— * IS! 22: :=i — «— ■ *- a* — & — will be glad of me, . . . May the Lord, He will be glad of me,. iffiESE:?E j— j-— t t— s?-- 1 #5 ■#- o - , — — S- r~ r "SC. -'P—S i-fi £3 • jj Eg— g_-.fc 2z: isi-il F -- =r~ ' -fc -jl 0 * -S “• 0 y | -eS*- -£*-* T \ \ T In the heav-en He’ll re - joiceT. . In the heaven once, In the heav-en twice. In the heav-en He’ll re - joice; In tbe 9 : ;> £ - 0 -’— 0 - +- Hr v — V - — 0 - ■£f- -| — - 0 - £± i -a — a — & T~ # - 0 . 0 - T : — s-^-pq — q — q ! ^ — I- 0 -a- \ \ \ \ ' V V heaven once, In the heaven twice, In the heaven He’ll re - joice. itrJk: b ^ I 0 iB=^ *-}. s' w= r s - ---- »* ** 9- -r- #* - -t — r- it -» — -1 — -1 — .^*-==E=!— V 4 ^ £> t- 0 262 _ Duo— -6- -Soprano and Tenor. — 1 1 hi — — 1 — } — hi "l "• "1 "■ 1 1 1— ■ , A J -"T - d — Irftv | 1 J m 72 e 0 4 * 9 jr. . . J VD _n * * Bright sparkles in the church-yard Give light un - to the tomb ; 1 , 1 j J J J J i J A J J. 67 n "3 w w k — aa. ... • v t — ~ wmr — Trio— 1st and 2d Soprano and Alto. 1-44— n - -1 — t— _i=rr ZZHj 3 nr- n 1 ? d d t} d __ ® « 5 JC . . xysj e* „ € 2 ff S H ds _• J —j— Brigli . S -it 4- t summer, spring * -§<- ^ y’s over. Sweet 4- '‘-e- -j* flowers in their I: bloom. Rv, <« w . . mm «. • L-x k \ j ? — Quartette. T 1 -1 1 — j j— ; j j"- ! 1 H 0 « € 1 5 M 1/ 1 ^ a 0 0 ffiL' » J 0 •J -#■ I Brigl r r * 1 it sparkles in the church-yard Give light un - to the 1 jm m 0 ^ "2“ "2” "2* 9 : pr- —0 0 0 0 -0 S' 0- 0 < 9 p— - h I — pzz.. —[H : E : E : v bz. _L 1 . J 1 — 1 — -i- _ -g - ; — 1 r 1 =|-=I : ..idzi:- t -1 Jr k 1 _L.- -J— — J - J ■ ^ J J M - X- -1 tt-Vr . € - - <1 p .. "3r / 0 2 j 2 . - CtL. *. J -c*— . W w nr « tomb; Bright summer, s] ^ * -e- - 0 - ■< irir *■ i ~ t ’ • ■* ig’s over. Sweet flowers in their bloom. - V „ * ... /^v • - •• r r m L. U S'-* l ■ 1 ul L. g 0 u_ — 1 7 k __ 5 ?? . j* ■ \ s — ? <$ r3 0 # ■ - — . f 1 V p* F~ - r 1 1 1 L L .J 1 r~ r r h 1~ r r 1 1 1 TUTTI. p=| — 3 — 4-F^I i=5=t~| j j li -j- =t=l — =i -“=> — jJ a 0 3 , — - fe-:— 5- 0 0 9 0 0 ... r * — S — % — 0 — My mother once, my mother twice, my mother, she’ll re- 1 • . ... fr r * *r - V* s* . - S- * — p>- — 0 — 1 — j» — ; _ f T p r^iznzi db k-rtrd 263 r r r w r ~ r r - joice ; In the heav-en once, In the heav-en twice, s § f lst time. -% t zt -a — a — a a — 5 — a- I 2d time. ■ a - - 4-1 Si y p i In the heaven she’il re-ioice ; In the heaven she’ll re-joice. I s . ^ I I i £a ,._a t s. -F t =g= -—3 £ -p- ar »~a — *~»~aT 5 :zj=j=l=^ ■*! — a 1 *r • o - V — 6 - 0 ' a 5 _ r r r> 1 — a — j i i i u i r ♦ Mother, rock me in the era - die all the day, Mother, all the day, ■a- -a- * 9 ; -i — — h a ja 'T i-h a. ft — t—y : bi — £ : a:*., a: ,s> a ? t; -a — a a a -a -a- H I ! B rh — F — j - — F Z_p_p_A_ a 9 P * *— r-^ r- :pz=Jz=^rz=fc ztzEfez: :: rock me in the cra-dle all the day, :=t rock me in the cra-dle all the day, Mother, ' * — * — a-*— a- T .a — * — a — — -a-* -a- -a-* a" ‘“a — a a -a- BS "T~ i ^ nr • — i s: all the day, ■ ■ is Mother, r f— P=F >- J= 264 3=i_— ii^zJzz^pS*— 1 V~i^^E^=iS3haz^R 1st time. | £me. H-a -&■ -&- -&r cliild, . . Oh, rock me in the cra-dle all the day, dayT -«- — •-«- f9- •^z=J=J=z^=p^z=:^E; : » — * — * — *— F* — ^ : 0=4= i :E i _i Mother, rock me in the era - die, Mother, rock me in ■0- JL JL Ji. JL A. .2.. 9' I r F -P- I &- # . — hs the £ 1st time. J— -m- -#- -0 -st- e> 0 StL :.s: ~ 73 — I ^3*- cradle, Mother, rock me in the era - die all the day! -79- -l 9- +•- EB s: r f- -p- v t t- £= -i «?■ ?z t n»-RF= M te. I Quartette. =4 5 «* • » i5i- ::=r=zj==lS: '! W-.—0— -i9- 'S ' «■- | ^ Mother, day, . . All the day, all the day, all the day, all the 9- -&~ ~Sr- ' ?3 m ;i3; I q -fs-q J^ R— N- • • • • 9i: day, — || -«*■ Oh, rock me in the cra-dle all the day ' ^ — ^sZK2L_ w 11 t * * t==fc -tr- L 266 * — * — h*— * t— 1 — F—F r«»— f 2 - «>- ±1=^:4== rj? = 4- 9~W j-— 5 J 1 :-# Hf- _ — — «- Its 4 — :iE3 all the day, all the day, Ob, all the day,. all the day, £ -■e-. -& — i — r 5 i±z*: I "*■ rock me in the era - die all the day? ■ r 1 ■ ^ — i h_ You may m t -p- f=f ■tr 4 T' +- REt^ p* |* ' jr No. 106. Chokus. Come Doton, angels. -fc- -N— N- A — — V \ — N-« — & — m — m a F Nr N; — K~al — gi— ^ 1 i 1 FN — — I % — 0 — p — 1-3- J-'-g — | — € — & -m—m i 1 — 0 % s -3- • : - -* - L *~ <* V P Come down, angels, trouble the water, Come down, angels, trouble the water, * & m *7 1£? W m BF KF &7 CF §f Ur SS 1 i-Sf—-* — 0 — % — % — »— # — 0 — p — p — p — (— -f— — -t- — — t I 1 I . . , I < V. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ -0 0 “I — f- v— =*=&=* t t 1 st time. ^3- * *-1, _ F v_5r_ ^ r r • * Come down, angels, trouble the water, Let God’s saints come in, Oh, a qT#-* f -# * 0 —0 0 0 0- r — 0 — 0 — & — 0 — 0 — p — -pn ~ u y u =t 3-H :pz=5: Fine. :=£=iz|V. & let God’s saints come in. ' 1 V i ’ r : M V \J \J r 1. 1 love to shout, I love to sing, Let God’s 2. I think I hear the sin - ner say, Let God’s 3. I hope to meet my brother there, Let God’s 4. Didn’t Jesus tell you once be - fore, Let God’s N N V — E- DC. saints come in, I love to praise my heav’nly King, Let God’s saints come in. saints come in, My Saviour taught me how to pray, Let God’s saints come in. saints come in, That used to join with me in prayer, Let God’s saints come in. samts come in, To go in peace and sin no more, Let God’s saints come in p h I No. 107. 3fm so <©lau. 0 Chorus. OE - 0 - 0 - 0 - — # -N-i — N — N — N- H H 1— -K— fv -N — i— t) 0 — 0- -& — a * — 2 ; —A 0- §4?§E f- I’m so glad tlie angels brought tlie tidings down, I’m so - * - * £ t=t £=l= 0 -..*—* Tj h h V — '/ — '/■ •—» — V M — f ^ — ■/. t= Si! t— a 0 -N- -4* ££me. *. 5: S-: { i • f: Jrj > • ! glad, I’m limiting for a home, Oh, hunting for a home. £Jl P 5— p -P/— p p » • -*- • # • # #_ •___ : ^ = ^— t—^ = p— : 1. You’ll not get lost in the wil-der-ness, Hunting for 2. Oh, Chris - tians, you had better pray, Hunting for 3. A lit - tie long-er here be -low. Hunting for 4. The an- gels sang in Beth - le - hem. Hunting for -jz a home, a home, a home, a home, -ft — •- $ 0—?r± V — A. 1 With the love of Je-sus in your breast, Hunting for a home. For Satan’s round you ev’ry day, Hunting for a home. And then to glo- ry we will go, Hunting for a home. Peace on earth, good-will to men, Hunting for a home. ms & — yi- L -?— ■p— — P 269 No. 108 . IPeter, go ring tfjcm "Bells. n T° c ^ orus after D. C. ring them bells, I heard from heaven to - day. I wonder where my e—P lep^ y y :tzi s t • a t- S=£ yy F 1 tat i.S 7 * ~C TTTF? * p b mother is gone, I won-der where my mother is gone, I rEEi :.-=rf •y- i=p^ * — # — h* — p ; — #- i=pp§ rs sfetef 2). C. -0— - 0 — 0 wonder where my mother is gone, I heard from heaven to- day. ■#-r 4 I fftTTT'T 270 i ±r. / v* V ' I Chorus. E^ — • — i * i \ N-F^ — • — • • « i « ■ • -1 V * ✓ I heard from heaven to- day, I heard from heaven to - day, I • — 0- -0 0 0 0 - w- V r U — v — p'—fr — & -0- - 0 ~ - 0 - 0- -0 0 - 1 ± VZ12: V t -r-= fcd it -N, — b- Fine. /t\ -N- ^tqtrrV H- -£> — N- i 0 - 0 - -0- -0- * U 0 thank God, and I thank you too, I heard from heaven to - day. ill 9 i ±r "fr ~I=B- 0 - 0 - bn — u - £ :E Pi 2 . I wonder where sister Mary’s gone— - I heard from heaven to-day ; I wonder where sister Martha’s gone — I heard from heaven to-day ; It’s good news, and I thank God — I heard from heaven to-day ; Oh, Peter, go ring them bells — I heard from heaven to-day. Chorus. — I heard from heaven, &c. 3 . I wonder where brother Moses’s gone — I heard from heaven to-day ; I wonder where brother Daniel’s gone— I heard from heaven to-day ; He’s gone where Elijah has gone — I heard from heaven to-day ; Oh, Peter, go ring them bells — I heard from heaven to-day. Chorus. — I heard from heaven, &c. 271 » ■ e. 0—0 0 — 0 — a . 0 0 0 - -0 - 0 - N—l— 0- ,-0—0- 0 0 0 I Oh, the band of Gid-e-on, hand of Gid-e-on, hand of Gid-e-on, Oh, the milk-white horses, milk-white horses, milk-white liors-es, • 0 0 4= V—V- Vj — f — -t-— — 1~ -0 ~i 0 0 0 0 0.0 0- 0 . 0 ~ 0— L -0 0 0 . 0 0 o - ver in Jor-dan, Band of Gid-e - on, hand of Gid-e - on, o - ver in Jor-dan, Milk-white hors - es, milk-white hors - es, f— t- 0 ME -p- % % £ £ 4= 0 : 0—0 0Z- -0-0-3 E=gi=t=q 1 1 F*i . -0 - - _ ~ • 0 - • : 0 _ j-. 0 w • : ¥ . PL _ 1— ■ 0 & — r- • — -a * • t- n LL - - - - - How I long to see that day. 1. I hail to my sis - ter, my m . H — "®" "0~ . a sis-ter she how low. Say, don’t you want to go toheav-en?. i j -Tf—0 — 0- 1 f- — 0 0 - CHORTT3. ;:V ; 0 — m 0~% £ — £- r -i N I s N - IS v — | — TT T . , . , ( Oh, the twelve white hors * es, Howl long to see that day. j 0h> hitch ’em to the char-i - ot, » 0 a 0 • i f ' 0 • 0 — 0 — 0 — 0 - 0 0 0 0 — 4 -»■ » » < s twelve white hors - es, twelve white hors - es, o - ver inJor-dan; hitch ’em to the char- i- ot, hitch ’em to the char - i - ot, o - ver in Jor-dan ; * — * — * - I* — 0 -’*- ■h — h — h — 1-j — b — 1 /r V — V — V- V— V- ■h — ^r ff v s K N s. v v ~T~J i — i _i i — i 1 { _L_P A ft ) — *— «— 0 hr«pJ -0 — 0 -T- 0-0 _ -0 — 0 Twelve white hors-es, Twelve white hors - es, How I long to see that day ! Hitch ’em to the chariot, hitch ’em to the chariot, How I long to see that day ! m ii J-i -i/— v-0\ - 1 1 L«l 0 0 • 0 • , r* . • -b— L 0-. •5 1 it: Duet. — I hail to my brother, my brother he bow low ; Say, don’t you want to go to heaven ? How I long to see that day ! Chorus. — Oh, ride up in the chariot, ride up in the chariot, Ride up in the chariot over in Jordan ; Ride up in the chariot, ride up in the chariot, How I long to see that day ! It’s a golden chariot, a golden chariot, Golden chariot over in Jordan ; Golden chariot, a golden chariot — How I long to see that day ! Duet. — I hail to the mourner, the mourner he bow low; Say, don’t you want to go to heaven ? How I long to see that day ! CHORUS. — Oh, the milk and honey, milk and honey, Milk and honey over in Jordan ; Milk and honey, milk and honey — How I long to see that day ! Oh, the healing water, the healing water. Healing water over in Jordan ; Healing water, the healing water— How I long to see that day ! 273 1 8 3ln tfjat ©teat ©etting=up horning, No. 110. As sung by the “ Hampton Students i — — 7 (7 - ~1 1 ATo T° m P & a m a ft i rrTw ; f -f f i f r r 1 H TvTT — 1 1 1 1" r . r“ 1 — r~, r~j j ~J \J 1 w ~i | y y - ■+— J Zmm 4— V : — ' A±A=tz LJ-- 5 p~|?— t=l f=i?=£ ft-’—f — #- v-b- i , - «r- ft * r. -0 — 0 & * # & - There’s a bet-ter day a-eoming, Fare you well ! Fare you well ! Prayer-makers, pray no more, fc=p= 4=t= n l • T M un ^ _ . m • & . M ... _j •4 fr?\v-p — ^ -m—w F r. *1 ... _j h h J ■ «4 S£-- ft. S x: • i 0 F * ‘ II h, preachers, fold your Bibles, Fare you w< or the last soul’s converted, t all ! Fare you well ! 2mm /“X • 1 . i * ft ..r Z 2 * 4 4. T> w tear . .5 * ft .. . L <2 - 1 .: . • 1 v~t? . t .. r 9 - • 1 1 n ». __ J J 1 1 J 1 i 1 i — 3 1 1 * * a — j # h 1 S d 3 - -- ri i Vt ~4 i ^ = K-H— — ft ft 2— tr F f— F In that great gettii ± t- "£■ : ^= ? = lg-up morning, Fare +- ^ 4— 1 i -ft ft you well _J 1 Fi g- are you well ! -J- V ^ — -- t— J L L L, ' p) ? <2 ft ft 9 ft ft -- ft ft — - r F - \- fcg— j- p— :|^-pz£z t jz:: .{ 1 2 J 274 The Lord spoke to Gabriel ; Go look behind the altar. Take down the silver trumpet. Blow your trumpet, Gabriel. Lord, how loud shall I blow it ? Blow it right calm and easy, Do not alarm My people, Tell them to come to judgment ; Gabriel, blow your trumpet. Lord, how loud shall I blow it ? Loud as seven peals of thunder i Wake the sleeping nations. 3 . Then you’ll see poor sinners rising ; Then you’ll see the world on fire ; See the moon a-bleeding, See the stars falling, See the elements melting, See the forked lightning, Hear the rumbling thunder ; Earth shall reel and totter. Then you’ll see the Christians rising ; Then you’ll see the righteous marching. See them marching home to heaven. Then you’ll see my Jesus coming With all his Holy angels, Take the righteous home to heaven, There they’ll live with God for ever. 2 75 No. in. 31 fenoto tfmt mg iRetieemer lines. J ^~ U ^rr»~ S~ -j^r-n — I — 1 — l ~~j — FH^" h"*- i i— — N — Ps — •''Ml II gi^ES Oh, I know, I know, my Lord, I know, and I know that my Re- +~ tT— 1~— 1 = — ^ — P — /* — /* — P — P — ^ ^ ? — fc-£= ->— j*=P=E= -( 2 - pc 3: ■V— P- .*•-» — P— F— f— T U— b— b=b |fe£=£:=£i -N — S- ? *-*-=■ t J ust stand right still, and steady yourself, I deem-er lives J 0h > Dan - iel in tlie 11 - on ’s den, I j Oh, Ca - leb and Joshua, tlie very ones, I [ J ust watch that sun, and see how it runs, I mmmm pi fc=t^ ■m—m ■ 0 — a — 4 =g=g=i -J=Z=^ =^ =rz l Oh, just let me tell you about the know that my Redeemer lives. -c 2! 1 ’ uone but J G ~ sus } s J That prayed to God... for to v. Oh, don’t let it catch you with your I'd? -0—P—0—P- — ¥=? SJz-U-P M — h h- U— V— V—V- %toeet Canaan. No. 112. Chorus. f-r p-i j_by__ u * e -a- Oh, the land I am bound for, Sweet Canaan’s happy land I am bound for, Sweet •P- -P- -P- -P- -y- &- f — P j-g q - - g =1 P=E%=1 a £ a- \ 1 a 1 — 0 0 — 0 0 1 0- h — h — h — I y — j— -y— y— y- •f" (9 — 0 — a- 2 : i :£i:^:!^^=3==£t=p=q: ‘ S * S Z m t=t i -N — K — K _1 1-1 I— 1- 3- f ^g-* 5- = 1 = Canaan’ sliappy land I am bound, for Sweet Canaan’s happy land, Pray M . JB. JR . JL _ - v — ■ r c p r OP r 1 1 -a — a— a — a — — 1 — 1 — 1 — 1 — 1 ! UJ. 5’ - q m Fine. STS _| , ,-P 1’ 1 1— ^ PS N; \ *=i=S i — — 0 0.* N — i- 1 :=t . . , , j ( Oh, my brother, did you come for to help me ? give me your right hand, j qj^ m y g i 8 _t er< did you come for to help me ? I J rr\ E£ 0M -0- -i— -y— y- - 0 - l=^^=i£=3 — 0-i—0 — 0 — f ii ±~~h 0 V i :q=ir^ "at* — 1 — h | -a- •* — » — N — s, — N- — ! 1 — H — -* — £ — * a— I— a- 9=1 Oh, my brother, did you come for to help me ? Oh, my brother, did you Oh, my sis-ter, did you come for to help me ? Oh, my sis-ter, did you +-• JL JL ~ ~ ~ I -P— F- y U 1 y y y - — a — a a- -a- - &f=t#= -*-* ■*. s- -F — 1 — ! — “I T i 1 0 — a — a - 1 — 1 1 — a— a-- a j 1 1 -y— y— y— y— y- No. .113. 3fm going to sing all tfre toag.* ^ Chorus. N N -- K~K- a&sr H h — h term :#ez.c__^ Oh, I m a-going to sing, $ l going to sing, -fi — K . b b going to -y— ^ -0—0 — 0- -0 0 0 P 0—0 0-0- £ - 0 — 0 - - 0 - - 0 — 0 - ~ -w— h — W— tt— g — 9 — g 1 ^ — P Going to sing. going to sing, going to P .- v -«--- 1-— i- - - » ■» 1 - - ■ — a — -r> — ■ — S -0 0 -0 0 - sing all a - long. . the way. Oli, I’m a-going to • m “s?" n: v U sing all a - long V the way. EE -fc- ^^E3 9 : t? : sing. going to sing. going to £ -_-± |=|=g: — 5 : -0- - 0 - -w— i — Going to sing. going to sing, going to sing all a - long the way. * Published in Sheet Form, with Piano Accomp., by John Church & Co., Cin. 278 sing, m i=£ going to sing, b £ -ft going to Vr going to sing, -S- -N- S? -# if — 'In going to sing, going to 45 - 3 £ Vi/ sing all a - long the way. Oh, I’m a - going to 9 ; £ i=g -ts- i |fe 3 -fc-> :?= £ _fc_ s e /Ts sing, going to sing, going to si ng all a-long the way. Going to sing, IS ,N -fh £ 8 — 0 - 0 — * P b b v OE:S : b" t -P- V - /Cs ff — 5 • « :l Going to sing, going to sing, going to sing all a long the way. fr^V * £_ • S p • /? 0 • s. • ■ ft — h— -- — ift- ?- M — h- v — y- »_ : 3 3 1. We’ll raise the Christian banner, The motto’s new and old, Re- 2. We want no cowards in our band. That from their colors fly, We 3. We soon shall reach the other shore, O, how we then shall sing, With 4. Well shout o’er all our sorrows, And sing for ev - er-more, With pentance and sal-va - tion, Are burnished there in gold, call for val - iant-heart-ed men, That are not a - fraid to die. all the heavenly cho - r us We’ll make the arch- es ring. Christ and all His arm - y, . . On that ce - les - tial shore. 279 a great Camp-meeting in tfre Promise!) Lanti. No. 114. From “Hampton and its Students ' ’ by per. P 4=3=3=^ % *=4=433=*: - 0 - - 0 - * 1 ' S , I s i N I ^ifeczz^jziez: t great camp-meeting in the Promised Land. Going to mourn and never b i 0 — ! 0 — 0 ; — 0 — 0 — i — 0 — 0 — 0 G 5 p- i 0 p 0 0 r° 9 * O 0 0 1 0 0 0 - -I 1 0 ;| rg- r - r 280 tire, .... Mourn and nev-er tire. Mourn and nev-er m ±r -I* — -I— - - 0 — »- V- =1 fct=: |1 £ d- -*! *i H 4 * • - ■* i- - 4 - 0 -e- iiil tire, Tliere’s a great camp-meeting in tlie Promised Land. 4 — \ 1 — — -v — it 0 0 0 0 — T -!* P \ j~| — €) 0 0 0 -0 h- 1 0 - 1 _L_ 2 . Oh, get you ready, children, Don’t you you get weary. Get you ready, children, Don’t you get weary, (bis.) There’s a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land. For Jesus is a-coming, Don’t you get weary, Jesus is a-coming, Don’t you get weary, (bis.) There’s a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land. Cno. — Going to pray and never tire, Pray and never tire, (bis.) There’s a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land. 3 . There’s a better day coming, Don’t you get weary, Better day a-coming, Don t you get weary, (&i*.] . There’s a great camp-meeting m the Promised Land. Oh, clap your hands, children, Don t you get weary, Clap your hands, children, Don’t you get weary, (bis.) There’s a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land. Oh. will you go with me, Don’t, &c. Will you go with me, Don’t, &c. (bis.) Will you go with me, Don’t, &c. (bis.) There’s a great camp-meeting, &c. Cho. — Going to shout and never tire, Shout and never tire, (bis.) There’s a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land. 4 . Oh, feel the Spirit a-moving, Don’t you get wrnarv, Feel the Spirit a-moving, Don’t you get weary, (bis.) There’s a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land. Oh, now r I’m getting happy, Don’t you get weary, Now I’m getting happy, Don’t you get get weary, (bis.) Cho.— Oh, Sy and never tire, Fly arid never tire, (bis.) There’s a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land. 28l J zfc =fc ~*I . -fc is-- is -f' y — 7 s — ir jp is -a j 0 0 ff j A H ride up in the char - i - ot, Car - ry me home, w— ~ — - — [_ .. 282 N N - fci V s’ -P m ... - ts -t\ zr* zr' Z: 2 1 % 1 * « % — i — S— — * ~9 g — * Ride up in tlie char - i - ot, car - ry me home, And I don’t want her leave-a me he - hind. hind. 2 There’s a long white robe in the heaven, I know, A long white robe in the heaven, I know, A long white robe in the heaven, I know, And I don’t want her leave-a me behind. There’s a golden crown in the heaven, I know, A golden crown in the heaven, I know, A golden crown in the heaven, I know, And I don’t want her leave-a me behind. Chorus. — G ood news, the chariot’s coming, 8 There’s a golden harp in the heaven, I know, A golden harp in the heaven, I know, A golden harp in the heaven, I know, And I don’t want her leave-a me behind. There’s silver slippers in the heaven, I know, Silver slippers in the heaven, I know, Silver slippers in the heaven, I know, And I don’t want her leave a me behind. Chorus. — Good news, the chariot’s coming, &c, 283 I No. 116 . ^>ome of tfcese sgorntngs. From “ Hampton and its Students by per. .-P ^ 1 J 1 — — ' ~' 0 PV Pr — 1 — 1 1 — „ -0 — -0—r — 0 — 0 w • 1 fS « 9 9 # & & Going to see my moth-er some of these morn-ings, see my moth-er Oh, sitting in the kingdom some of these mornings, sitting in the kingdom ~ ^ -l 1 1 U t ‘ I I £ — 1 — ^ — -1 zp • 0. " a — 0 * j 0 some of these mornings, See my moth-er some of these mornings, some of these mornings, Sitting in the kingdom some of these mornings, •rtr—rirfczfc #=t= :=t »-• U I U P I I I m Look a - way <■» — g^~ v in the heaven, Look a- M J * tra ■ 0 — » Look a - way in the heaven, i u Look a - way in the heaven, Look a- -h— k- l=ST2=f $4= Hope I’ll join the hand. k' P I I? ^ 1~" Look a - way in the heaven, Look a - way in the heaven, t rr at £1* 0'0 fr-bi- 284 way Look a - way in the 285 heav-en, Look a -way in the heav-en, Looka- 3 Going to walk about in Zion gome of these mornings, &c. Going to chatter with the angels some of these mornings, &c. Chorus. — Look away in the heaven, &c. 4 Going to talk the troubles over some of these mornings, &c. Going to see my Jesus some of these mornings, &c. Chorus. — Look away in the heaven, &c. 286 No. 117. Eeign, faster 31esus. * £ 2- r?s -& ±=»f 0 — K K K K — K K P 1 -P P P P P -P — a — H F=F=f=#«=<==f^ a u> reign, O reign, O reign, my Sav - iour, — * 1 i— r- — & 0 0 0 — — 1 1 h 1 — i -i —0 — 1 1 w r — £ — t-z tv -_-y- y M - t? . . y — fel s t IF t =g^g: -a- Reign, Master Je * sus, reign 1 O reign sal - va - tion -f— f- £i-r-P^— ' r— r-£ ~V -Q-. — r -r Tt-i 5 q? -P- ~ ~ k."' ft- fc- -q= (sr » § 4- 8 _« { V a . - 0 $ a £ ^ “ 1 ' ' 1 in my poor soul, Reign, Mas - ter Je - sus, reign ! A.. A A A 0 . FT~- 0 " W ... t> £ • ft r- — 0 — # — — h- i 9 ' * m • ~P— 1 [ V -V- k i ? 5- * ~t? Chorus. PI 1. I tell you now as I told you be - fore, 3. I’ll tell you how I sought the Lord, 3. I nev-er shall for - get that day, 4. 1 look’d at my hands, and my hands looked new, 5. I nev-er felt such love be - fore. mm mi Reign, Master Jesus, reign H*- pi 0 h * Published in Sheet Form, with Piano Accomp., hy John Church & Co., Cin. 2 s- Solo. Chobus. $=$ -N- -H- -0- -fs Pv — [- 0 - -H- — Kr K jr -gP-glp-^h-*-T- — *| — # — i-;- a S' the promised land I’m bound to go, Pray’d a little by day, and all night long, When Je-sus washed my sins a -way. )- Reign, Master Jesus, reign. I looked at my feet, and they looked so too, Saying, “ Go in peace, and sin no more,” fi -P- V -P— P M — 4 V V V 51 1 EE3 O reign, 0 reign, 0 reign, my Saviour, Reign, Master Jesus, /7\ -E~ — I -y- ■ u u - -y — y- & t- y— -» — #_ -H* «? — 0 — 0 — 0 % % — % — 4 -*- — * — ? — s — C- JJ \f ♦'♦■♦♦♦ I reign ! O reign salvation in my poor soul, Reign, Master Jesus, reign. — — !* — p — =3— S— P— t :|==; Jj No. 118. 2D&, iBtotfjets, are pou getting tcaop ? ^=z=t- Oil, brothers, are you getting ready, ready, Brothers, are you Oh, sis-ters, are you getting ready, ready, Sis-ters, are you Oh, fa-thers, are you getting ready, ready, Fathers, are you Oh, preachers, are you getting ready, ready, Preachers, are you - — .. 4 p r 0 #• 0 p • r r r - Li— U— P- S E p 5 •h- 288 y— y— y — V ■m- P-* HU :Q ::fiz£^iE«:=g-g- ^^ HSH f getting ready, ready, Brothers, are you getting ready, ready, getting ready, ready, Sis-ters, are you getting ready, ready, getting ready, ready, Fa-thers, are you getting ready, ready, getting ready, ready, Preachers, are you getting ready, ready, ’ ti t: t: It t: t: * £: £* ftif* t — #-•— *i — «- T _ - j — j-t— 1 # * — -•— # : L «— — — h i — « # — # IV- For the year of Ju - bi - lee. Oh, rise, shine, and give God the rise, shine, 0—0- £« 3 =£!fEB 5 =F= 5 : VT ~ — s r ■■ f 1 : - 5 s * m ss * * — * &S=4=J =f JQ—U- &. -sL-K-i-l — - ^ 0 — = — ■ ■ glory, glory, Rise, shine, and give God the glory, glory, Rise, shine, and Rise, shine, Rise, shine, r. » 4 * " 4 — 4 = H ’=** 4 = f +r ^=tcc mi r» i i i ,r n i 1 1 1 1 1 ijj in give God the glory, glory, For the year of Ju-bi - lee. is^mi S=S=S=5=t5=p=F=F ± 5==F=t: ‘ * ' ::* ‘ill 289 19 No. 119. €>&, ma&e a=me J£>olp. -7— f Oli, make a - me lio - ly, . . ho - ly, I do love, I 4— « n m t4 Fine. 3 — I- <3 0 ■#— #- I I do love, make me-a lio - ly. . . ho - ly, I do love tlie Lord. — 0—^— £= fiizt=pt==t==E=?=: £=b=5=tf=r=r=t=:: B y : 1. Young people, I tell you, one and all, I do love, J do love, 2. I picked up my hymn-book and Bible too, I do love, I do love, 3. Oh, away up yonder, round the throne, I do love, I do love, b— :$=±ig V b=zrz3zb=fc=3 I), c. •- -j — £ — f — 0-0—0- jb g-b p y.d p £ -v- >s pm You’d better be ready when Gabriel calls, I do love the Lord. For I have re - ligion as well as you, I do love the Lord. The waters are sweeter than lion-ey-comb, I do love the Lord. 290 No. 120. Cfrcg leu mg Loro atoag. Solo, Chorus, Solo. ,V i[ '-i.. i:5j S— i±t=£= 1. The J ews and Homans in one hand, Tell me where to find Him, They 2. They led Him up to Pilate’s bar, Tell me where to find Him, But the 3. Pilate said, “ I’ll wash my hands,” Tell me where to find Him, I. . 5 : 1 Chorus. cru - ci - fied the Son of man , ) Jews could not condemn Him there, /• Tell me where ft find Him. find no fault in this just man, ) No. 121 . Come, all of Bern’s CfrtlDten. 4e — — m h ^ *4 — K N — K — 1 — J 1 - m — a — - — 0 — -P H-j — P R — P — -m— tr— ?- J Come, L ii w— 2 9-d. p-it — 0—0 J J U ^ '/ all of God’s children, In the field, Come a ' ’ s» a , all of God’s children, fz In the field, Come, all of God’s children, In the field of battle-glory 9 V.i„— ^ZliL- ■ 0 - 5 - , — 1 - 47- f— -V— b>— p> -t— u- v —y — & -hs/- =r=rf '— bH i/ -N- fc--P— N- * — *— — K“ 1/ 3 V I Z in - a my soul. 1. Oh, the preachers want warriors In the field, The 2. Oh, you must bow low to get In the field, Oh, 3. Oh, we will shout when we get In the field, Oh, 0-0-0— 0- k-$ tM i -w- ~n 0 — !— 1 — r*t — V — 1 J_ « ■ U* u - preachers want warriors In the field, Oh, the preachers want warriors you must bow low to get In the field, Oh, you must bow low to we will shout when we get In the field, Oh, we will shout when we ± £ f: a ♦ — '/t— r-h — h — h -tEH: 9 e~ « A -P— V- TT — , * l/lj I v—u —u =T=P=q -0 -0- i i i — N- « 3t --N- -h— <3 — 51/ k/ In the field of get In the field of get In the field of bat - tie - glo - ry bat • tie - glo - ry bat - tie - glo - ry m V In - a my soul. §agESgES£ ±Z it 292 No. 122. 3 i toant to fie rcatig; Or, Walk in Jerusalem just like John. !_ — K — N- — N — r'lTl-^s — Ni — -| — ■0— 1 ^ 1 1 J 0 0 - 0 — 0- -0 0 d 1 — (— 0 — — N- ■0 — 0 — < — ^ — 0- — N — N — N- i 1 1— .. _ — -e — e -y -*r ir 1. John said the city was just four-square, ) 2. Oh, John ! oh, John ! what do you say ? [Walk in Je-ru- sa- lem just like John ; 3. When Peter was preaching at Pentecost, ) •d? ■* tm D. C. P ^ _ v _ V. . _S. *5. ~r~w^\ zt ‘ — i r*i f V ffaP~V 0 ~ 0 1 \ 1 —0 0 232 ^ - - 0 9 _____ b ' ^ b -S-N — N --N m . , _ — 9 — t **■ -+ +- t r it And he declared he’d meet me there, ) That I’ll be there at the coming day, VWalk in Je-ru - sa- lem just like John. He was endowed with the Holy Ghost, ) » »-* < » > r f . r US * rj -H h V Z — t- 293 No. 123. €be auor&’s being none. >1 — N- 4— W-~, gESE 1. We need more reapers in the har-vest field, 2. We need more workers in the har-vest field, 3. We need more teachers in the har-vest field, f 4. We need more preachers in the har-vest field, ; ■l Where the work’s being - 0 - - 0 - 1 0 - m V- "l - J V 1 p gib-j ± z* -r — 1 - -N— H- i=m s — $ iTV = 5 ^ zztziird done ; We need more reapers in the harvest field, ) L/ * W done ; We need more workers in the harvest field, ( wl K h wnrk’s hpim* done • We need more teachers in the harvest field, l wnere me worK 8 Demg done ; We need more preachers in the harvest field, ) :tdEE:tE&=: 1- -r— U- - 0 - 1/ f A r% f\Yt rlnv* on TirArlr’o Tvo _ wnrr rl Atl d Hit T XTf\t* t ■k-. iE done. Oh, chil-der-en, the work’s be- ing done, Oh, the work’s be-ing t=t=t=fc:tTl=£=t=f5=^Ef §fe?=£=£=fcj«=jr -h — S— -fe-St l=3fclM3eri=fcd Efc-i s f s' — *— 5- ■§ — i- 3=i^= done; Oh, chil-der-en, tSe work’s be • ing done, Oh, the work’s be- mg — 2 # ^ • .» • -V—V- t: kJ fcf -0 r i=t p± -0 u -N - 0 0—0 i r 0~0- -y-v-V fS-N — H — H „ -■*— ■- — -9—0- - 0 JS ■ K - J- - ==pj— p= prz^: H "H — h — y P p y ' W , done, Oh, the work is being done, Oh, the woi'k is be-ing t±: t. SB be£ \/-U- P-V- *-• •-* f-r 1 £ /- Oh, the work 294 1 K # ^ b 1/ Oh, the work & - 0 — 0 — 0 - *4 ^ ~W -_|S, N, JS ^ ] / Ts -i^i -i iT- :5PFqFfrJ= t=.!=^=-^±*=i£=£kt= jpj-ghfl w 0 b I done, Oh, the work is be-ing done, Oh, the work’s be-ing done. 4=- 4 — 4 — ■£- +— 4 -— +— jm m :£-£3v— I ct! - ^ Oh, the work -# — »- U U \>> J 0 — 0 -- -y — i — a No. 124. ^ail! mail! You know I can’t stay here. 1. John the Bap-tist did declare, You know I 2. When I get on my golden shoes.You know I 3. When I get in the middle of the air, You know I *- ■*- t § 1=1 -©Hr, v if* if*] if* ifr - — P S N 11 2 J' J J . r*r — — 5 J — 0 — 00000 . 0 «L_i -3 -P -0—0 — (- j 1 0—0 —, 0 — can’t stay here, That can’t stay here, I’ll wa can’t stay here, *- -0- none but the righteou Ik about heaven and Not a sin-ner i is would be th :,ell the news, vill be there, L 0 — 0 0 -J 1 You know I c ere, You know I c You know I c -0- -0- -0- L.0 — 0 — an’t stay 1 an’t stay 1 an’t stay 1 #• -i 1 ' 1 lere. lere. lere. M 0 -4_J L_ | j 0 # . _ : J 1 ✓ 1 P-v- * /—• — — 295 Eise, ®(»ne, fot tfjp iLtgfit is a-coming. No. 125. k J J 1 . s ^ N J . .. -\r~l 'Ll a 2 _ _ « l T 1 P 1 1 3 • IP ** 1 J |V ^ rrr\ ti a J J ■ - s h '"! J * # vt7 a : Oli, rise, shine, for thy light is a - com - ing, -3- H®- -fi- * * A r r r r r y.,' + 4 * >» ^ 1 1 I 1 . . Z7 ' ,15 T r , " VF - ■■" 1/ b P r? f u b f ^ Rise, sliine, 1 . . N 1 ^ w . J | s k Su, ... TV TV 1 _p -c_p a XL. _ R ^ -it— 2 T\ n J J JS J. 3 ^P- * » 3 - : .3 * « «-• J • # 9 r 9 9 9 *9 9 • ^ ^ Rise !, shine, for thy light is a - coming, Oh, rise, shine, for thy *■ f. f. jL jL ± £L • r n r r r — ML. > L L L • •» y* f— | T, U \ \ :’f: f y — w w W' — \ _jp_ 9 — f- -9 ® a? IT L W w Jt 1 1 .. .. k. L _ +r b! y 1 P ^ f zr k k ~y ? £ J Rise, shine, rise, shine, _n_S _W V w ^ w _ _ V , , k. -H-tf ,' _p ’ _n 7^ 7 t t -n — 1 1 -n~ /me- ,> J -j -j H 1 EcT m 9 9 9 •" W 9 9 ' ’M ~~ - « ^ . -g» . * — iLU M* y 9 i ■» . * — < l. Oh, wet or dry, I intend to try, My Lord says He’s 1. We’ll build our tent on this camp-ground, My Lord says He’s 2. I intend to shout and nev - er stop, My Lord says He’s r- +- • *- • a pi r r r - - 'Jr % ■M i ' » V (# T u — l— L tr-J 296 3=d=i==ts P 5I=3EF — I- * coming by’nd-bye, To serve the Lord nn - til I die, coming by’nd-bye, And give old Satan an - otk- er round, coming by’nd-bye, Un - til I reach the mountain - top, 4L #. • JL. jS_ • t - 0 - £ D.C. No. 126. ©6! gtoe me the Cfflings. - — N fed* N ES — Pv ■izvz£=j K N — Ps-# - 0 — *- Z&L Oh ! give me the wings, Oh, good Lord, give me the wings, And oh ! Fine. i P P S l 1 give me the wings, My good Lord, give me the wings for to move a - long. 1. Oh, Method - ist it is my name, And oh,. . glo-ry! I in- 2. I love the shouting Method - ist, And oh,., glo-ry! Be- - 3. I'm bom of God, I know I am, And oh, .. glo-ry! And.. D.C. iy:| ft — P— =* - ft r-i — I N- /m V — h— 9 0 H 2 * tend to live and die the same , ) cause they sing and pray the best, V And oh, . . . you de - ny it if you can, ) 297 i*=i: glo rv! No. 127 . Cfnllp 223ater. V 1 2 9 r j • j ^ « 0 frPr V 'i f 9 - & SEE t t _ t L _ L ~~ tr 1 ✓ 1 r ^ 1 p- - Chil - ly wa - ter, cliil - ly wa - ter, £V U *1 ** -BOS' v 24 — _n_ u As£ time. 2d time. U -1 9 l , >v j 1 _r N N k p ■ JS J • ~N r n d — V'_L/_ V V S ... 3 _ 1 # • 2 O a * • 2 * -1 " & • 0 ■ . ’ • • ’ r Hal - le - lu - jah to that Lamb ; a a m. - * ' 7 to that Lamb. I r\ • u 9 ' f L 1- _r r • 9 .1 f f • a ‘ "l . L s ■« 1 1 J . 1 — T^/ p p P — b * J — y h P J 2 In a-that ark, the little dove mourned, And hallelujah to that Lamb ; Christ Jesus standing as the corner-stone, And hallelujah to that Lamb. 3 Old Satan’s just like a snake in the grass, And hallelujah to that Lamb ; Watching for to bite you as a-you pass, And hallelujah to that Lamb. 4 Oh, brothers and sisters, one and all, And hallelujah to that Lamb ; You had better be ready when the roll is called, And hallelujah to that Lamb. 298 No. 128 TBeneWctton. r : [As sung by the Jubilee Singers.] With much expression. T. F. Sewari> e -Jr-i The Lord bless thee.and keep thee, | ^ “ ak n e th “] | and be -i9- i •-W p — "V • ' i i-i gracious un-to tliee ; The Lord lift up His countenance up- t . r ii^=U=y -* 5 >- ■f -H = 5 = 5 = I — 0 — 0 - 0 0 0 0 _ _ : 5 — 5 — 5 — I— I 1 — u i — 1 2 > "^9~ * and give thee peace. 1ST- ' g> — r~ zy ez: " 2 ? A - 22 - men. 2 ? - 25 <- i - 2 ? 196 ~zr 299 No. 129. tCbese bones going to rise again. feS cftts * I -fc- i M=N i - e> • 1® f® sS? jr r - ■« ■ _ ~ ■ » i± r *1 t— r- . — f • bJr f i --»- 1 d i iJ Solo. i?S * a 3=3= *=g 3=^ These bones going to rise a-gain. The Lord is on the J — & — - ~ 0 ~. m—d m — :* •=£ D. c. ~Q-g-ffg — -N. in 1 s — -4 Jlj fTV h r — h- - 4 F <5 tz - &) r 1 ^ i giv-ing hand, These bones going t( j » i- ) ris & -3- e a-gain. 22 /-■VW-TI _ J J \ tf rj T1 KZ*iL. S . ™ . .. - £ * ^ IJ L. if =£tpS - . J=k t — F: !! 2 If you get there before I do, These bones going to rise again; TeU all my friends I'm coming too. These bones going to rise again. Chorus. 300 Ibumble yourself, tbe bell bone rung. No. 130. — k — . _( — v — N- _ C"" i — ni / 4 3^ J N J \ -■ 0 P - , .. . y — UJ fn\ a 9 p ^ _ ^ * J J VM/ 4 — 9 9 , : 3 & • I 1 0 9 • 0 9 ‘ 9 0 O & 9 9 0 1. Live humble, humble, humble yourself The bell done rung; _ 9 e • . « • 0 __9 • 9 V - ok A 9 a • r r £ 9 0 >2 r r .2 • e i r L L • 1 t 1 ~±r~ w w— 1 CL. L , r ui — : w— 4 — }9 JJ Solo. A A A— A- 1» I tried to live humble and I couldn’t live humble; ytt- ' i \ v s , ^ \ -! v s ”1 ~Jr~ z ! r r. .\ J i . . p > J Trts. ^”3 3 ^3 J 9 0 (f . J J J J Pl J w N 9 9 9 9 9 1 . * 9 9 9 .... J I tried to preach humble and I couldn’t preach humble; d. c. A ^ .A M ■- —j ^ — P-I— T — N N T, fl r " r f 9 e . v — # T j, ■ 1 j m 1 — - ® - '"J J 3 R ‘ ' t r r ? V V n tJ 1 tried to preach humble and 1 couldn’t preach humble. 2 If you want to see old Satan fall, Load and shoot him with the Gospel ball; If you want to see old Satan fall, Live humble, etc. 3 Sec the hearse a-come rolling around, Carrying of the body to the new burying ground; See the hearse a-come rolling around, Live humble, etc. 4 Behold I stand on the sea of glass, The sea of glass all mingled with fire; God’s going to raise-a my soul up higher, Live humble, etc. 301 No. 1 3 1 . tlbe Crudfiyion. -m- §E h-t — !- % Were you there when they cru-ci-fied my h r i' h Lord?. "$ =■ V P W - t m Xf- -t — ' * • J.- • ~ • . • — • . « — j . * O some-times it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble, N Crrr rc t & * £ £ i -a* §E 4*. —I- 5 5 I i -g- Were you there when they cru - ci - fled my Lord? £ £ I CL- T" v- 2 Were you there when they crowned him with the thorns? etc. 3 Were you there when they pierced him in the side? etc. 4 Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? etc. 302 No. 132. Ikeep amoving. 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T ^ ^ C Cl _l_ * ^ BSI Z 1 1 , 1 . 1 f Li J L_ ^ — ? 7 1 ✓ V / s s J 1 , . . N . D -C. ' ’ L V v P- J- p IS 1 i y{ ' U ! 1 1 v* _J> p # 1 ■\t/' ® & J J ^ * JZ.Z-ff » 3ZI 1 T- w V m 6? € a a 1 m 9 m 1 1 -p- • an - swers prayer, My Lord is a-moving in the air ... . 0 0 ~h & J. 7T \ • J | L * t h “ _L 1 L i is m A ffi_ . 0 - . 1 — “ -- — f E — T i LJ j 2 0, there’s preaching here, there’s preaching there, My Lord’s a-moving in the air; And I really do believe there’s preaching everywhere, My Lord’s a-moving in the air. Chorus.— Keep a-moving. etc. 3 0, brethren, don’t you think it best, My Lord’s a-moving in the air; To carry the witness in your breast? My Lord’s a-moving in the air. Chorus.— Keep a-moving. etc, 303 Sitting Sown bp tbe sifce of tbe lamb. No. 133. J ! — -1 i HI Hi- V* 1 1 Y A L * S 1 ~9 1 *■ J • 14 r~ gp J J J 9 ^ J l “ i — W fj 'W / Hal - le II 1^11 - lu - jah now, Sitting down by the side of the Lamb ; , L J J i_ /a A • /! n ! & ^ & r : ns E23 HS 9 & v» 9 O *10 ‘-F Ji -9 — H — | [— H — — — n -j . — f— T~ -H m _ if n 9 & 9 A 9 0 # • A • a # -, "J jr i [ r 1. Way down yonder on Jordan’s stream I hear them crying, I’ve been redeemed. . J I .j /Sr _ -na ■H BU — 1 J s i . . . , /~T 1 Sitting down by tlie side of the Lamb, I’ve been redeemed; Sitting down by the I 4-1- \ \ * TH F=ii _»l j >- j H if V-L/ 1 I /S n _r ii d 1 1 side of the J , , 1 J 1 1 w l 1 [iamb ; Been redeemed, sitting down by the side of the Lamb. j i j i I J J i ! _J . j d kz; # & a) y _ # T H- r - | 4J fc= J 2 Young man, young man, you look mighty fine, But you ain’t got God Almighty in your mind; Sitting down by the side of that Lamb On your mind, Sitting down by the side of that Lamb. 3 Deacon, deacon, I tell you the fact: Some of your members are living mighty slack Sitting down by the side of that Lamb, Living mighty slaok, Sitting down by the side of that Lamb. 304 @b, ben mp little Soul's swine to Sbine. No. 134. “This was sung by a boy who was sold down South by his master ; and when he parted from his mother, these were the words he sang.”— J. H. Bailey. — Ps— N Jtzat A ^ — I r i O’ w ® * M - - V " i 1. Pm gwine to jine cle great ’so-ci-a-tion, I’m gwine to jine de JL JL 4 t m * » • i V — f ~v- $ ?=$=* i * £ A— A great ’so-ci - a-tion, Pm gwine to jine de great ’so-ci - a-tion; J ... _ _ A A AA A A - - - ■V- -v- -F-+ -&L ~Z5*~ Den my lit - tie soul’s gwine to shine, shine, Den my -7 i 4 Idl i £ \a~ a — a — a t/ tf a 9 . E S S V ✓ r 0 a— a v r v I y TTl j y Solo, o ,-U—b- \ — — A . A " - A 0 ' K 9 a 'a fry. J JVPg J t p J < K ' Tj Tj J, J ' tr a • a a a Hear de an - gels sing - in’. sl • ff 4? , a 1 v y W r We’re marchin’ up to Hcbber,. All’ Je - - sus is on - fe ^ h p_ Dem- a Christ - tians take e i - - dlin’ on f- r-^g=g J I Dey'r U P 1/ U ^ U 2 Now all things well, an’ I don’t dread hell ; — Hear de angels singin’, I am goin’ up to Hebbeu, where my Jesus dwell;— Hear de angels singin’. For de angels are callin’ me away,— Hear de angels singin’, An’ I must go, I cannot stay,— Hear de angels singin’. Cho.— Oh, sing, etc. 3 Now take your Bible, an’ read it through,— Hear de angels singin’, An’ ebery word you’ll find is true;— Hear de angels singin’, For in dat Bible you will see,— Hear de angels singin’, Hat Jesus died for you an’ me,— Hear de angels singin’. Cho.— Oh, sing, etc. 4 Say, if my memory sarves me right,— Hear de angels singin’. We’re sure to hab a little shout to-night,— Hear de angels singin’. For I love to shout, I love to sing.— Hear de angels singin’, I love to praise my Hebbenly King,— Hear de angels singin’. Cho.— O h, sing, etc. 307 No. 137. (10? Xorb belibereb 2>anlel. n J j ... ) r i ^ s n _ i- J _TA m 1 7 L Vr 4 - — i 1 rw i fl - <<2 !_ J 1 1- -- ft \ l ; A 2= S • @0 0 • PI fl . /O /s J 9 ^ 9 9 r. f r ty V V 1 My Lord de-lib-ered Dan- m -f- ‘ * 0 . -f- h iel. My Lord de-lib-ered Dan-1 5^- jff.. • - A- _ J*_ [_ §L J zi. M • J el. My — A - 9 • ft 0 9 • 4 22 iP .0 • j - /• r ' 4 " 4a A nr I _ E ^ • L L L • f r p & r f r t p r 1 1 Fine. Ik ^ t L s „ ■ ! !S _j P s v [ i j / 2 44 L . m - - « - I if Y 2 * ^ at. _£ S • jp » • I * J 7 • • r er 9 0 9 1 j J -* 1 I O u y r Lord de-lib-ered Dan- : | £ m m • <52 • Lei ; Why can’t he de - lib - er me? : tt • a & ... 22- |® J L 1 L 4_ 2? • | IWTi? r r ..... , ,i - j 1 - 1 1 ' -•<* A • la ^ • - | r * r ■ ■ » ® - 1 ^ 1 — r — 1 -j p 1 h— • 1 r n J f r ^ [ 1 V 2 ^ i Solo. -=^q ^=1 : ) 1— — 7 e 0 0 V. 0 9 . L-*> =^=i 1 I met a pilgrim on de way, An’ I ask him whar he’s a gwiue. I’m hound for Canaan’s happy lan’, An’ dis is de shouting band, Go on ! Some say dat John de Baptist Was nothing but a Jew, But de Bible doth inform us Dat he was a preacher, too; Yes he Weis! Cho.— M y Lord delibered Daniel. 3 Oh, Daniel cast in de lions’ den, He pray both night an’ day, De angel came from Galilee, An’ lock de lions’ jaw. Deltas so. Cho.— My Lord delibered Daniel. He delibered Daniel from de lions’ deu, Jonah from de belly ob de whale, An’ de Hebrew children from de fiery furnace, And why not ebery man? Oh, yes I Clio.— My Lord delibered Daniel. 5 De richest man dat eber I saw Was de one dat beg de most, Ilis soul was filled wid J esus. An’ wid de Holy Ghost. Yes it wasl Cho.— M y Lord delibered Daniel. 308 N No. 138. Hove Iking 3esus. A » N ^ N _ N N N . N . ,N J 1 To J E l 1m 7 £ IN A IN A • V 1 p *■ p » • p \ m — o 0 si 0 ~ 0 I 0 w~ 0 9 9 9 9 • 9 1 ‘-t 0 & 0 1 L 9 . . 0 _ 9 J f] y 1. El-der, you say you love King Je - sus, El-der, you say you _____ _ * jn h h iv & n * h f J 1 a a m d 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 A H 1 r- 1 7 1 2T r — -i V V V 7 ~ / 7 /'"/ / '1 r ** 1 Y 2 I i __ ^ s 1 - • 1 7L s v s y / 1 *d i t • J - -w - - Aj- \ -v -P N - V V ^ 0 J ! • •9 d ^ on! » Vs T - S < i • & 1_ -Z 0 & p v 0 0 tJ P ’ i if love the Lord. '.Lord. '0' e m __ .m ^ J Oh, come and let us know how you _ ^ N _ _ k. * f ... S % .1 1 _ 9 ... ml-. \ P m ITv L f 9 • £ J 1 J •>, :p f a - r £ v; •A 0 0 1 • i 1 J-M i -9 r r 1 ‘J > . _ .. I 1 . ^ * V, ~TJ V S 1 * 9 0 ' V Fink. I ! ft-fr-t* 5 m t V V love King J e - sus, Come and let us know how you love the Lord. N -# f -0- N i p— f ! : - v 45 - £=£= ?=g=g ^ S' v . 2 Sister, you say you love King Jesus, Sister, you say you love the Lord. Refrain.— Oh, shout and let us know how you love King Jesus, Shout and let us know how you love the Lord, 3 Deacon, you say you love King Jesus, Deacon, you say you love the Lord. Refrain.— Oh, preach and let us know how you love King Jesus, Preach and let us know how you love the Lord. 4 Brother, you say you love King Jesus, Brother, you say you love the Lord. Refrain.— Oh, pray and let us know how you love King Jesus, Pray and let us know how you love the Lord, 5 Mourner, you say you love King Jesus, Mourner, you say you love the Lord. Refrain.— O h, mourn and let us know how you love King Jesus, Mourn and let us know how you love the Lord. 6 Children, you say you love King Jesus, Children, you say you love the Lord. Refrain.— O h, sing and let us know how you love King Jesus, Sing and let us know how you love the Lord. 309 No. 139. Chorus. G be ©It> ark. f t Fine. m~2 Solo. A — fN- — — i fv— A gi i H- A-«— *- m A-A- A- v i i> V v V +■ old ark’s a-moving, move a-long home. home. 1. When Jesus Christ con- fet * *“* » » :fci IS ■v — v- -» — » V- -fc— fe A — A A-*- A — A I vert-ed my soul, In a my soul was a lit - tie white stone, 2± \ \ s iXr P * 9 £ A q- I £ — *<* ■A- -T A A A A — i— A- A-A t=ir* i On that stone was anew-ly written, None could read it but ih =m, 310 -fh ft ^ X X r-f - ? — h i X i ? h m m gm • jt . J JMJ2 P J M2 at .. .i j i M w a r u 5H7 r. < _L 9 _ r v, r. ! y ¥ * those re-ceived it, h * r J 9 « * I re-ceived it and ' £ I COl h a / * * ild read it; X ^ h & d • ywv u, _ _L .e tv r . i Tj \j KB9 LT W J 1 a. u_ 1 j " w W- -1 M2 . _r ... M n u S \ N L. X s x S y . x x s : .tx _x v- I A -j .X /[ T_W_JL _ a - a J ' _X X J m - — as Tn\ f 2 r._ . a as 09 j LJ VT' \j r I , ✓ fr - ~ — r Just let me tell you what the stone V d id s say, V Ee- J _W MR - .. ^ f-T U -JZ — — — ■y u — =1 — h L l —v -v } 2 N k X _A D. C. V '1 J [S P N !\ i X p X S X J_| J L. M ^ * 6 M V v J P J \ p X x _X _P— _x . D 9 I s I s 9 J r P a A J§ . ( \ _ / — M 9 L J • 9 • i-S XT * V ^ V * y * V y deemed, redeemed a been Son of God, Been washed in the blood of the Lamb. * -P # _ 4 S J 7SW — □ z 7 0 # 9 JX_ m IX _ j sj 1 v K’’ L/ U tv Lt'T # . n u ! 3. Jv " # . _ s. .. • J S ^ M V — H- * -2=*=. ¥ =M 2 When I was lying at hell’s dark door, Never did lie so low before, Massa Jesus, He came riding by- Oh! He gave me the wings for to rise and fly. — C horus. 3 When I was walking along one day, I met an old hypocrite on my .way, She’s always right and never is wrong, She’s always up and never is down, Just watch that sun how study she runs, Don’t you never let her catch you with your work undone. — C horus. 4 You take your sister right by the hand. And lead her ’long down in the Promise Land. If my sister should have a fall, Just get on your knees and carry ’er case to the Lord. — C horus. 311 PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY- i Auric, 1100001031 / X.