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I Know My
Name is There
Daniel Sidney Warner |
The lyrics to “I Know My Name is There” were written in
1893 by Daniel Sidney Warner (1842--1895). During the Civil War,
he substituted for a brother. Later he taught school. He
attended Oberlin College briefly in 1865. By 1867 he was
licensed to preach by the Western Ohio Eldership of the Church
of God (Winebrennerian). His experience in preaching was gained
on circuits in Nebraska and Ohio. In 1874 he was in trouble with
the Eldership for preaching entire sanctification. Soon he
joined the Indiana Eldership. In 1881 he was in trouble with
this Eldership over sectism.
Warner was an associate editor of the
Herals of
Gospel Freedom in 1878. This paper was merged with
the
Pilgrim about 1881, and the new paper was called the
Gospel
Trumpet, with Warner as its editor. Warner was
forced to move the paper about, seeing for firm financial
foundations. The publishing work was at last established in
Grand Junction, Michigan, enabling Warner to travel more
extensively with a group of evangelists. Warner's time was spent
in editing the
Trumpet,
writing books, tracts, and songs, and making evangelistic
tours of the United States.
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Barney Elliot Warren |
The music was composed by Barney Elliott Warren. Warren was an American
Christian hymn writer and minister. He was born in Lewiston, New York on
February 20, 1867. In 1884, during a revival meeting at Grand Junction
near Bangor, Michigan, he converted to the Church of God of Anderson,
Indiana. Two years later, he joined Daniel Sidney Warner as a bass in
his company of singers. He married Nannie Kigar, another member of that
company. He served as minister and pastor to several congregations. From
1888 to 1940, he worked on song books and hymnals for the Gospel
Trumpet Company, the publishing arm of that Church of God. He died
on April 21, 1951 in Springfield, Ohio, and is buried in Vale Cemetery
there. He has been credited with writing either the words or the music
or both for more than 2000 hymns and children's songs; but as of 2015,
almost all have fallen out of fashion, though a number of Church of God
congregations still sing them weekly.
Lyrics by
Daniel Warner
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My name is in the book of Life,
Oh, bless the name of Jesus;
I rise above all doubt and strife,
And read my title clear.
Refrain:
I know, I know,
My name is there;
I know, I know,
My name is written there.
My name once stood with sinners
lost,
And bore a painful record;
But by His blood the Savior crossed,
And placed it on His roll.
Refrain |
Yet inward trouble often cast,
A shadow o’er my title;
But now with full salvation blest,
Praise God! it’s ever clear.
Refrain
While others climb through worldly
strife
To carve a name of honor,
High up in heaven’s book of Life,
My name is written there.
Refrain |
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