Lewis Hartsough

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Hartsough's "Gwahoddiad", 1872.

Lewis Hartsough (born August 31, 1828 in Ithaca , New York , † January 1, 1919 in Mount Vernon , Iowa ) was a Methodist pastor, revival preacher and writer of gospel songs .

Life

Hartsough trained at Cazenovia Seminary and was ordained as a pastor in 1853, one year after his graduation . For 15 years he served in the Oneida Conference of Upstate New York . During this time he wrote numerous poems and songs, such as I Love to Sing of Heaven (1858), which is usually sung with melodies by Charles W. Dunbar and William B. Bradbury . At the South Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Utica , Hartsough met the publisher Joseph Hillman. From this acquaintance a collaboration developed that would last for many years and even continued when Hartsough had to move to an area with a drier climate for health reasons. Hartsough moved to Utah where he became the first superintendent of the Utah Mission and presiding elder of the Wyoming District .

In 1868, in Wyoming, Hartsough was the musical editor of the Revivalist , a compendium of hymns and gospel songs , which appeared in 11 editions with changing contents. The Revivalist was published by Hillman in Troy , and Hartsough and Hillman communicated mainly by letters.

In 1871 Hartsough moved to a ward in Epworth , Iowa . There authored Hartsough for a revival meeting ( revival meeting ) the gospels, he is internationally known for the still. I Am Coming, Lord (“I hear your welcome voice”) was published in the Revivalist and gained international fame when Ira D. Sankey performed the song in its Welsh translation “ Gwahoddiad ” at evangelistic events by Dwight Lyman Moody in Great Britain in 1873 .

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The hymnologist William Jensen Reynolds writes that during his tenure as a pastor, Hartsough served in 15 wards and five districts of the Methodist Episcopal Church . During this time he traveled some 400,000 mi , made 9,000 house calls, and attended 7,000 prayer meetings and other church events. He also gave about 1,500 sermons.

He spent the last years of his life in Mount Vernon , Iowa.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. His first name is often misrepresented as "Louis". Probably because Hartsough usually only gave his first name with the initial. Forrest Mason McCann: Hymns & history: An annotated survey of sources . ACU Press, Abilene, Texas 1997, ISBN 0-89112-058-0 , p. 573.
  2. ^ Lewis Hartsough 1828-1919 . In: NetHymnal . Archived from the original on December 11, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 14, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cyberhymnal.org 
  3. ^ Lewis Hartsough: Revivalist: A collection of choice revival hymns and tunes, original and selected . Joseph Hillman, Troy, New York 1868.
  4. Epworth in Lincolnshire , England, was the birthplace of John Wesley , the founder of Methodism.
  5. ^ William Jensen Reynolds: Hymns of our faith: A handbook for the "Baptist hymnal" . Broadman Press, Nashville, Tennessee 1964, pp. 80-81. Welsh Gwahoddiad means "invitation"; the song belongs to the genre of altar call songs.
  6. ^ William Jensen Reynolds: Hymns of our faith: A handbook for the "Baptist hymnal" . Broadman Press, Nashville, Tennessee 1964, pp. 308-309.