Hall grad­u­at­ed with hon­ors from the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia; he lat­er re­ceived an hon­or­a­ry Doc­tor of Mu­sic de­gree from Har­ri­man Un­i­ver­si­ty. He wrote can­ta­tas, or­a­tor­i­os, choir an­thems, and hun­dreds of Gos­pel songs, and ed­it­ed sev­er­al hymn­als. He was ap­par­ent­ly an ex­cep­tion­al song lead­er and chor­al con­duct­or, and, with Ir­vin Mack, founded the Hall-Mack Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny (lat­er bought by the Ro­de­heav­er Com­pa­ny). Hall said once that the tune for Does Je­sus Care? was his most in­spired piece of mu­sic. He was a mem­ber of the 7th Street Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church in Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia. His works in­clude:

• Boundless Love (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1896)
• Songs of Sov­er­eign Grace, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick & Win­field Weed­en (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1897)
• The Trib­ute of Song, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1904)

• Hall, pp. 389-91
• Hustad, p. 250

1. Have Thine Own Way © 1927

1. Does Je­sus Care?
2. Clifton
3. For God So Loved the World
4. He Is Mine
5. March On!
6. No More Shall We Say Good­bye
7. Mine, Still Mine
8. Oh Be Rea­dy!
9. Redemption
10. Tell of Love