1890–1978

Introduction

Born: Au­gust 23, 1890, near Pick­away, West Vir­gi­nia.

Died: De­cem­ber 8, 1978, in a nurs­ing home in Hunt­ing­ton, West Vir­gin­ia.

Buried: Spring Hill Ce­me­te­ry, Hunt­ing­ton, West Virg­in­ia. Epi­taph: Min­is­ter—Po­et—Song Writ­er

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Biography

Homer was the son of Hugh Milton Cum­mings and Nan­nie Tal­bot, and hus­band of Ma­ry Lou­ise Kac­mar.

He gra­du­at­ed from Tre­vec­ca Col­lege (now Tre­vec­ca Na­za­rene Uni­ver­si­ty), Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see, in 1909.

After spend­ing a year at the Un­iv­er­si­ty of Chat­ta­noo­ga, he en­tered the min­is­try of the Me­tho­dist Epis­co­pal Church in 1911.

He is said to have had ov­er 400 hymns and songs pub­lished. He was some­times called the Charles Wes­ley of West Virginia, and the po­et lau­re­ate of the West Vir­gin­ia Unit­ed Me­tho­dist Con­fer­ence.

He served in World War I, and, from 1931–45, as chap­lain for var­ious parts of the West Vir­gin­ia le­gis­la­ture,

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All the Way
  2. All Things Work To­ge­ther
  3. Are You Bur­dened with Sin and Sad­ness?
  4. As You Journey on Life’s Path­way
  5. Be Not Dis­cour­aged
  6. Better I Love Him, The
  7. Beauty of Je­sus, The
  8. Beulah
  9. Bible Is Good Enough for Me, The
  10. Come, Come To­day
  11. Come Now in Ex­ul­ta­tion
  12. Come Now to Je­sus
  13. Come to Je­sus of Na­za­reth
  14. Come, Your Voices Raise
  15. Don’t For­get to Pray
  16. Everybody Hap­py? Say Amen!
  17. Faithful Few, The
  18. Far Beyond the Blue Sky
  19. Gloom and Dark­ness Pre­cede the Dawn
  20. Glory to God in the High­est
  21. God Has Not For­got­ten You
  22. God So Loved the World
  23. Good and Faith­ful Servant, A
  24. Gospel Ac­cord­ing to You, A
  25. Hand That Was Wound­ed on Cal­va­ry, The
  26. Happy All the Way
  27. Harvest Fields Are White with Grain
  28. Has Your Heart Been Cleansed from the Guilt?
  29. Has Your Heart Been Warmed by the Pow­er of God?
  30. Have You Kept Your Pro­mise?
  31. Have You Wan­dered Away from the Sav­ior To­day?
  32. He Is Count­ing on You in the Bat­tles of Life
  33. He Is Look­ing on Me with a Smile
  34. Hear the Glad Tid­ings of Won­der­ful Joy
  35. Hear the Mas­ter’s Call
  36. Hear Ye the Words of the Mas­ter To­day
  37. Hear Am I, Send Me
  38. Hitchhiking to Glo­ry
  39. How Swift­ly the Mo­ments Fly
  40. I Am Sing­ing Now of Je­sus
  41. I Can Hear the Sav­ior Call­ing Me
  42. I Cannot Com­pre­hend the Won­drous Love
  43. I Feel Like Tra­vel­ing On
  44. I Have a Song I Love to Sing
  45. I Have Heard Thy Lov­ing Voice
  46. I Have Start­ed on My Way
  47. I Know It Is True
  48. I Know Not What the Mor­row
  49. I Long to Be Faith­ful
  50. I Shall Be Like Him
  51. I Shall Not Be a Stran­ger in Hea­ven
  52. I Strug­gled in Dark­ness and Doubt Ma­ny Years
  53. I Want My Life to Count for Je­sus
  54. I Want to Be True in All That I Do
  55. I Was Lost, but Je­sus Found Me
  56. If for Christ I’m Liv­ing
  57. If the Storms Above You Rise
  58. If to Us They Could Speak
  59. If You Have a Word of Cheer
  60. If You Have Been Saved
  61. I’ll Glad­ly Fol­low Je­sus
  62. In Ev­ery­thing Give Thanks
  63. In My Heart a Song Is Ring­ing
  64. Is He Sa­tis­fied with Me?
  65. Is Your Home a House of Pray­er?
  66. Is Your Tes­ti­mo­ny Backed Up by Your Life?
  67. Jesus Is Call­ing Thee Now
  68. Jesus Is Ev­er Be­side Me
  69. Jesus Is Pre­cious
  70. Jesus Is Seek­ing the Lost Ones
  71. Jesus Is the One You Need
  72. Jesus, My Sav­ior, Hum­bly I Pray
  73. Jesus, Sav­ior, Hear Us
  74. Jesus, the Light of the World
  75. Joy Is Not a Task, A
  76. Judge of the Earth Will Do Right, The
  77. Let Je­sus Come in­to Your Heart
  78. Let Your Light Shine
  79. Lo, a Cry To­day Is Heard
  80. Lo, the Grain Is Wav­ing
  81. Lord, I Come Be­fore Thy Throne
  82. Lord Is My Shep­herd, The
  83. Love Held Him There
  84. Mother
  85. My Fa­ther Knows and Cares
  86. My Grace Is Suf­fi­cient for Thee
  87. My Lord and King
  88. My Sav­ior Cares
  89. Not I, but Christ Who Liv­eth in Me
  90. Not the Cross, but Christ
  91. O Praise the Lord Al­migh­ty
  92. O There Is No Oth­er Friend Like Je­sus
  93. O What Joy I Find in Serv­ing Christ
  94. O Where Is My Wan­der­ing Girl To­night?
  95. Old Home Church, The
  96. Old-Time Pow­er, The
  97. On Life’s Pat­hway There Is Sad­ness
  98. Only the Best Is Good Enough
  99. Pray, Give, Go
  100. Pray When the Dawn Is Beam­ing
  101. Pray When the Dawn Is Break­ing
  102. Purer Yet and Pur­er
  103. Shadows of Night Are Fall­ing
  104. Should He Come
  105. Since I Star­ted for That Ci­ty
  106. Since Je­sus the Sav­ior Spoke Peace to My Soul
  107. Sing Ho­san­nas
  108. Some Day My La­bor Here Shall Cease
  109. Some Day We Shall Reach the End of the Trail
  110. Some Hap­py Day
  111. Some Oth­er Day the Morn Will Break
  112. Someone Will Wel­come You
  113. Soon I’ll Be with the An­gels
  114. There Is a Beau­ti­ful Ci­ty Above
  115. There Is a Land Eter­nal
  116. There Is Glad­ness in My Soul
  117. There’s a Bet­ter Way for the World As­tray
  118. There’s a Ci­ty on High
  119. There’s a Home Above
  120. Thou Art Good and Do­est Good
  121. Though Clouds Ov­er­hang the Way
  122. Though the World May Be Scorn­ful and Cold
  123. ’Tis the King’s Com­mand
  124. Walking as a Chris­tian
  125. We Have Heard the Ma­ce­do­ni­an Call To­day
  126. Weary One, Bur­dened Down by Guilt and Shame
  127. What a Great Cloud of Wit­ness­es
  128. What Will You Give in Ex­change for Your Soul?
  129. When Days Are Dark and Drea­ry
  130. When I Came to the Sav­ior
  131. When I Walk Through the Val­ley and Sha­dow of Death
  132. Where’er He Leads Me I Will Go
  133. Why Not Come Just Now to Je­sus?
  134. Why Should I De­ny My Sav­ior?
  135. Win Them for Je­sus
  136. With Je­sus in the Sha­dows
  137. Wonderful Sav­ior, A
  138. Yes, Je­sus, the Sav­ior, Is Com­ing Again
  139. You May Know the Pow­er of an End­less Life