1861–1940
Georgia Tillman Snead

Introduction

Born: Ju­ly 7, 1861, Lynch­burg, Vir­gin­ia.

Died: Jan­ua­ry 15, 1940, Staun­ton, Vir­gin­ia.

Buried: Spring Hill Ce­me­te­ry, Lynch­burg, Vir­gi­nia.

portrait

Georgie was the daugh­ter of George Till­man Snead and Mar­tha Da­vis Spin­ner.

Works

Poem

Inspiration

Oh, won­drous grace my God hath giv­en,
To me whose eyes were void of sight!
He hath in­fused His glo­ri­ous light,
And now this earth is like to Heav­en!

For now I see, my eyes dis­cern,
The migh­ty mar­vels of His love,
The glo­ries of the heav­ens ab­ove.
And won­ders of the earth I learn.

New beau­ties ev­ery­where now spring
In leaf and bud and tree and flow­er;
I feel the glo­ry of each hour,
As fast it speeds on gold­en wing.

Can I re­pine when this rich feast
Is ev­er­more be­fore me spread,
In this great vol­ume dai­ly read,
Which God can show un­to the least?

No, may I ev­er praise His name.
How hard so­e’er my cross to bear,
Since ev­ery­where in earth and air,
I see His won­drous love aflame.

Then let me through this day be strong
In ear­nest word and no­ble deed,
Since God su­pplies my ev­ery need.
And mak­eth bright my path along.

Georgie Till­man Snead
Joy-Bells, 1909

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All the Sor­rows of Thy Life
  2. Father, Take My Hand and Lead Me
  3. For Me, He Left the Realms of Light
  4. For the Com­ing of His King­dom
  5. Give Me the Old, Old Gos­pel
  6. How Sweet Amid Earth’s Wild Al­arms
  7. I Am Just a Lit­tle Child
  8. I Can Be a Lit­tle Light
  9. I Could Not Live With­out My Sav­ior
  10. I Want to Tell the Sto­ry of His Love for Me
  11. I Would Be a Sun­beam
  12. If We Fol­low Je­sus
  13. Into All the World the Call Is Ring­ing
  14. Looking on the Bright Side
  15. Now the Day Is Dy­ing in the Gold­en West
  16. O Chim­ing Bells, O Hap­py
  17. O Sing Away Sor­row and Sing Away Care
  18. O the Gold­en Dawn Has Brok­en
  19. Only a Smile, It Quick­ened the Heart
  20. Over All
  21. Pilot Me, O Gra­cious Sav­ior
  22. Through the Sun­shine and the Sha­dow
  23. We Are Lit­tle Sol­diers
  24. We’ll Win the World for the Mas­ter
  25. What a Hap­py Band Are We
  26. What Is It Makes My Path­way Bright?
  27. Who Will Work for Je­sus?
  28. Whole Wide World for Je­sus, The
  29. Would You Make This Dark World Bright?

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