1885-1959
Haldor Lillenas Grave

No­vem­ber 19, 1885, Stord Is­land (near Ber­gen), Nor­way.

Au­gust 18, 1959, As­pen, Co­lo­ra­do.

Flor­al Hills Cem­e­te­ry, Kan­sas Ci­ty, Mis­so­uri.

Haldor Lillenas (1885-1959)

Lillenas em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca as a child; his fam­i­ly set­tled first in South Da­ko­ta, then moved to Or­e­gon in 1889. He at­tend­ed Deets Pa­ci­fic Bi­ble Coll­ege in Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia (later re­named to Pa­sa­de­na Coll­ege); stu­died mu­sic at the Sie­gel-My­ers School of Mu­sic in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois; and re­ceived an hon­or­ary Doc­tor of Mu­sic de­gree from Ol­i­vet Na­za­rene Coll­ege. His first pas­tor­ate was in Lom­poc, Cal­i­for­nia, in 1910; he lat­er pas­tored in Redlands, Cal­i­for­nia, and In­dianapolis, In­diana. In 1924, he found­ed the Lil­le­nas Mu­sic Com­pa­ny (bought by the Na­za­rene Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny in 1930), and worked as an ed­it­or there un­til his re­tire­ment in 1950.

Haldor mar­ried Ber­tha Mae Wil­son, a song­writ­er like him­self. He and Ber­tha were el­ders in the Church of the Na­za­rene. Hal­dor tra­veled as an evan­gel­ist, then pas­tored sev­er­al church­es, 1914-1924. In his life­time, he wrote some 4,000 hymns, and sup­plied songs for ma­ny evan­gel­ists. His works in­clude:

  1. And Yet There Is Room © 1928
  2. Are You De­ny­ing the Mas­ter?
  3. Beautiful Gates of Gold, The
  4. Bible Stands, The
  5. Church of God, Awak­en
  6. Climbing Up the Hills of God © 1957
  7. Come Just as You Are © 1928
  8. Don’t Turn Him Away © 1925
  9. Dear Old Bi­ble, The
  10. Dusky Hands
  11. Garden of My Heart, The
  12. Glorious Free­dom
  13. Have You Thought? © 1940
  14. He Has Called Me by My Name © 1927
  15. He Is Com­ing
  16. He Is Mine © 1929
  17. He Set Me Free
  18. Higher Than the Mount­ain © 1957
  19. Ho­ly Spir­it, God Most Ho­ly © 1957
  20. I Have Found a Pre­cious Rest­ing Place
  21. I Have Set­tled the Quest­ion
  22. I Know
  23. I Know a Name © 1928
  24. I Lost the World © 1924
  25. I Will Arise and Go to My Fa­ther
  26. In the Home­land © 1931
  27. Jesus Rolls the Clouds Away © 1950
  28. Jesus Will Walk with Me
  29. Leave Your Bur­den at the Place of Pray­er © 1934
  30. Lord, I Am Plead­ing © 1924
  31. Loy­al and True © 1930
  32. More Than a Friend © 1928
  33. My Bur­den Is Gone © 1923
  34. My Mo­ther’s Old Bi­ble Is True © 1929
  35. My Won­der­ful Lord © 1938
  36. My Won­der­ful Friend
  37. No Com­pro­mise
  38. O Love of Cal­va­ry © 1923
  39. O My Heart Sings To­day © 1924
  40. Once I Was Bound by Sin’s Gall­ing Fet­ters
  41. Peace That Je­sus Gives, The © 1931
  42. One Day I Tra­veled a Toil­some Road
  43. Pull Up Stream
  44. Savior Have I, More Pre­cious to Me, A © 1931
  45. Soldiers of Im­man­u­el (1919)
  46. Soul That Sin­neth Shall Die, The (1914)
  47. Standing on the Word © 1927
  48. Storm the Forts of Sin © 1923
  49. Surrender to Je­sus © 1953
  50. Sweeping This Way
  51. Tell the Bless­èd Sto­ry
  52. There’s a Blessed and Tri­umph­ant Song
  53. Under the Aton­ing Blood © 1918
  54. Walking in the Beau­ti­ful Light of God © 1925
  55. What Have You Writ­ten? © 1932
  56. When Je­sus Whis­pers, Peace
  57. When the Ho­ly Ghost Abides © 1929
  58. Where They Need No Sun
  59. Why Car­ry Your Load? © 1931
  60. Wonder-Working Name, The © 1957
  61. Wonderful Grace of Je­sus
  62. Wonderful Peace
  63. Word of God, The
  64. Yielded to Thee © 1925
  65. Your Ros­es May Have Thorns © 1925
  1. Church in the Vil­lage, The
  2. Count Me
  3. Glory Just to Walk
  4. I’m Abid­ing in Ca­naan Land
  5. In the Prom­ised Land
  6. Jesus Has Lift­ed Me
  7. Jesus Intercedes for Me © 1933
  8. King of Glo­ry, The
  9. Steady, Bro­ther, Ste­ady
  10. Years Can Not Take Him Away, The