A grad­u­ate of the State Nor­mal School, West Ches­ter, Penn­syl­van­ia, Liz­zie or­gan­ized the pri­ma­ry de­part­ment of a com­mun­i­ty Sun­day School in Swarth­more, around 1896. Her hus­band, An­drew Good­rich De­Ar­mond, died in 1923.

Very few who at­tend and work in the Sun­day school will fail to re­cog­nize the name of Liz­zie De Ar­mond. She is, per­haps, the most pro­li­fic writ­er of child­ren’s hymns, re­ci­ta­tions, ex­er­cis­es, di­a­logues, etc., of the pre­sent day. At twelve years of age, her first po­em was print­ed in the Ger­man­town, Pa. Tel­eg­raph. In the ear­ly years of her wo­man­hood the cares and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of life crowd­ed out all poss­i­bil­i­ty of writ­ing, and it was not un­til she was left a wi­dow with eight child­ren to sup­port that real ne­ces­si­ty com­pelled her to re­new the work so long ne­glect­ed. Short ar­ti­cles for var­i­ous pa­pers and mag­a­zines, li­bret­tos for can­ta­tas, na­ture stor­ies and other lit­er­a­ry work found a rea­dy mar­ket, and were step­ping stones to high­er achieve­ment.

‘If Your Heart Keeps Right’ now be­ing used so ex­ten­sive­ly in Evan­gel­is­tic meet­ings is her best known hymn. Un­der date of Jan­u­ary 1st, 1915, she writes, Now in the light of the glad New Year, 1915, if an­y­thing I have writ­ten has helped to lift one soul above the cares and wor­ries of ever­y­day life, and brought it near­er to the great lov­ing heart of Je­sus, the joy is mine, but the glo­ry be­longs to God.

Charles Ga­bri­el, The Sing­ers and Their Songs, pp. 23-4.

• Emurian, pp. 63-5
• Loyer, p. 30
• Sanville, p. 18

1. Across the Tem­pled Hills
2. Be True to Your Col­ors
3. Book That Ne­ver Grows Old, The
4. Bugle Call, The
5. By Qui­et Wa­ters
6. Come In­side
7. Coronation Day
8. Do You Won­der Why We’re Glad?
9. God Cares, Won’t You? © 1938
10. Easter Bells Are Peal­ing
11. End of the Road, The
12. Fellowship with Him
13. Glory, Hal­le­lu­jah!
14. God Is So Good
15. God Loves Me
16. Good Night and Good Morn­ing
17. Hark! The Spring­tide Breez­es
18. Hasten, Loy­al Mor­tals
19. He Arose To­day
20. Hosanna We Sing
21. I Thought of You, Mo­ther
22. If Your Heart Keeps Right
23. In Je­sus Name
24. June, Dear June
25. Just Right Here
26. Keep the Wires Clear
27. Leave It with Je­sus © 1930
28. Lily of the Val­ley, The
29. Love Shall Tune Our Lips
30. Marching on the Lord’s Side
31. Make Je­sus King
32. Meet God in the Morn­ing © 1937
33. Mother’s Pray­ers Have Fol­lowed Me
34. Night of Nights
35. O’er the Hills of Old Ju­dea
36. On with the Cross
37. Only To­day Is Mine
38. Pray It Down
39. Pray, Pray
40. Put Your­self on God’s Side
41. Reapers Are Need­ed
42. Right of Way, The
43. Risen! Hal­le­lu­jah!
44. Safe on the Christ Rock
45. Set My Name Down
46. Shine On, Beth­le­hem’s Star
47. Shines Our Morn­ing Star
48. Song in the Night, A
49. Song of the Morn­ing, The
50. Speak to Me On­ly of Je­sus
51. Wake the Joy­ful Echoes
52. We Would See Je­sus
53. We’ll Be All Day There
54. What Do the Flow­ers Say?
55. When I Look in His Face
56. When Je­sus Is Liv­ing With­in
57. Where the Cross Is Lead­ing
58. Whispering Winds Soft­ly Sigh­ing
59. Who Will Our Pi­lot Be?
60. With Christ the Com­fort­er So Near
61. Wonderful Book
62. Wonderful Christ­mas Sto­ry, The
63. Wonderful Je­sus, The