1830-1924

Christopher Rubey Blackall

Blackall served as a doctor in the American civil war, and, from 1867, as secretary for the American Baptist Publication Society for the North-West for over eight years. He was also chairman of the Auxiliary Board at Harper’s Weekly. He wrote more than 100 Sunday School songs. His works include:

• The Swedish Movement Cure, in Its Application to Chronic Diseases (Adams, Blackmer & Lyon, 1866)
• Gems for the Little Ones (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: B. Griffith, 1879)

• Brown, p. 450
• Gabriel, pp. 15-18
• Kristen Sang og Musikk

1. Again with Rejoicing We Come Today
2. Awhile o’er Earth’s Mountains We’re Roaming
3. Behold, What Manner of Love
4. Best of the Seven! Oh, Holy Day
5. Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
6. Busy We Would Be for Jesus
7. By and By
8. Church Bell, The
9. Come, Come, Join in the Singing
10. Come to Jesus, Weary, Troubled Wanderer
11. Do the Right, Never Fear
12. Doing His Will
13. Far Distant in the Ages
14. Fields Are All White, The
15. Follow the Path of Jesus
16. Gathered by the Crystal River
17. Give Me Faith to Come to Thee
18. Glowing Bright and Pleasant Is the Holy Day
19. God Made the World, and He Made Me
20. Hail! Thou Glorious Name!
21. Hear Me, My Savior
22. Heavenly Father, Lord of All, I Would Hear
23. Hither We Come, as a Union Band
24. I Want to Be Like Jesus
25. In Our Perfect Home Above
26. In the Highways and Hedges Go Seek
27. Jesus Is My Shepherd, He Will Care for Me
28. Jesus Loved the Little Children
29. Jesus Loves the Little Children
30. Labor On
31. Let Us Help Each Other
32. Little Eyes, Little Eyes Softly Close in Worship Now
33. Little Ones Come to Him
34. Little Sunbeams We’ll Away
35. Lo! An Ever Flowing Fountain
36. Lord Wants the Boys, The
37. Loudly Let the Anthem Swell
38. Oh, Sing Praise unto the Lord!
39. Our Joyful Notes We Gladly
40. Prize Is Set Before Us, The
41. Savior Stands Inviting, The
42. Shadows Are Falling, The
43. Sweet Sabbath School
44. Stand on the Rock
45. Tell Me the Stories of Jesus
46. There Is Some Good for Each One to Do
47. Though I Walk Through the Vale
48. Watch Closely the Pathway
49. We Are Little Sunbeams, Shining
50. We Are the Lambs
51. When I Walk in God’s Clear Sunlight
52. Will the Savior Hear Me
53. With Joy We Seek Our Savior’s Face
54. Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain to Redeem Us
55. Would You Gain the Best in Life?