CHRISTIAN HYMN & COMMENTARY Choice Songs from CROWNING GLORY REVISED Bilhorn

Choice Songs from Crowning Glory
by P. P. Bilhorn (1865-1936)
Published by Bilhorn Bros., Chicago ILL.
6 published editions noted in Worldcat

Peter Philip Bilhorn was a musician in the last 1800s who worked with the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody and others. To further his work he invented a portable organ, the Bilhorn Telescope Organ, that would fold up into a case, for which he developed many models.

Interest for this year, 2009, is the Abraham Lincoln connection. Bilhorn's surname was originally Pulhorn until changed by Judge Abraham Lincoln in Ottawa, Illinois.

This particular edition, 1888 (I believe), has a softcover of a slightly heavier weight than the pages. The paper appears and feels to be of a newsprint-type quality. This particular copy was owned by a Willard G. Thompson of Wells, Minnesota. Songs are of the nature one would expect from a musician working with evangelists. Most are invitation songs, and "I have been saved songs," and many have as the tune composer P.P. Bilhorn, of which some he also wrote to lyrics. A theme still popular today in many Christian circles are what we call "blood songs," those that speak of the blood shed by Jesus Christ on the cross for our salvation.

Here is an example of a "blood song" by the famous English poet, William Cowper of Olney Hymns fame. I find it too graphic for my taste.

No. 40: Glorious Fountain, Stanza 1

There is a fountain filled with blood, filled with blood, filled with blood, There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins, And sinners plunged beneath that flood, beneath that flood, beneath that flood, And sinners plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.

Most of the songs are presented in standard 4-part hymn score style, while at the end are a few pages where a beginning motive only in the treble followed by text, presumably because these particular songs were so well known as to definitely not need a complete score. Those for which Bilhorn is the author, his identity is shown as P.B., as composer he is shown as P. Bilhorn or P.B. Bilhorn with copyright dates at the bottom of pages stating his ownership in the same manner.

* Indicates hymns where Bilhorn is noted as the composer. ** Indicates hymns where Bilhorn is noted as both composer and author.

Please note, as stated for hymn no. 5, that all hymn numbers are not included. My deduction is that this paper wraps edition, as indicated by its title, is not the complete Choice Songs edition, but rather a group selected and used at evangelistic tent meetings, probably available for a small cost or distributed for free to attendees.

Hymns of the 19th-century with different language usage and tendencies than we have today, we often more graphic in nature than those to which we are accustomed. There is a reason some hymns or hymn stanzas have not stood the test of time.

1. Revive Us Again (revival)


2. Glory to Jesus, He Saves** (1885)


3. Go Forth! Go Forth!* (1894) (missions)


4. Are You Washing in the Blood? (blood song, salvation)


5. hymns numbered 5, 6, and 7 appear to be missing, but there are no missing pages. Hymn No. 4 is followed by Hymn No. 8


6. Please see no. 5


7. none


8. My Jesus, I Love Thee (commitment)


9. Let the Savior In (invitation)


10. Please see no. 5


11. Please see no. 5


12. Sunshine in My Soul (joy of salvatioin)


13. Throw Out the Life-Line (missions, evangelism, water song)


14. Showers Refreshing* (prayer for blessing, missions, revival)


15. Jesus Saves (missions)


16. Please see no. 5


17. Please see no. 5


18. The Savior Is My All in All (1886) (Jesus as Redeemer, praise)


19. please see no. 5


20. Bid Him Come In** (1891) (invitation)


21. Art. Thou Drifting?** (1891) (invitation, water song))


22. I Will Sing the Wondrous Story* (praise)


23. Savior, Pilot Me (prayer for guidance, water song)


24. Sweet Peace the Gift of God's Love** (1887) (peace in salvation)


25. Stand Up for Jesus (armor of God, battle to overcome)


26. When My Savior I Shall See* (1887) (heaven)


27. Please see no. 5


28. Please see no. 5


29. Please see no. 5


30. Blessed Be the Name (praise)


31. Room in Heaven for Thee* (1891) (invitation)


32. Please see no. 5


33. Please see no. 5


34. On the Cross* (1889) Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed (salavation through the cross)


35. Please see no. 5


36. He Calleth for Thee* (1891) (invitation)


37. Conquer Through His Word* (1898) (God's army, overcome obstacle b Jesus' power)


38. Glory to His Name (saved at the cross, blood song)


39. Bringing In the Sheaves (missions, evangelism)


40. Glorious Fountain (blood song)


41. God Be with You (benediction)


42. While Jesus Whispers (invitation)


43. Please see no. 5


44. Please see no. 5


45. Standing on the Promises (praise)


46. We'll Never Say Good By (eternity, heaven)


47. Please see no. 5


48. Please see no. 5


49. The Half Has Never Been Told (prayer, personal Jesus, praise)


50. Blessed Jesus, Keep Me White** (1885) (help me not to sin)


51. Please see no. 5


52. Please see no. 5


53. Please see no. 5


54. The Man of Galilee* (arr. © 1894) (overcomer)


55. Please see no. 5


56. Redeemed (praise)


57. Do Not Pass Me Buy* (1894) (asking for God to come into life)


58. Please see no. 5


59. Drifting Away from God* (1891) (invitation to those lost from church, water song)


60. The Best Friend Is Jesus** (1891) (personal Savior)


61. Behold! a Stranger (invitation)


62. Bring Them In (missions, looking for lost sheep


63. More Forward! (time is short, go out to harvest souls)


64. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms (comfort, praise)


65. Blessed Assurance (saved, praise)


66. Tell It Out!* (1891) (missions, evangelism)


67. Please see no. 5


68. Please see no. 5


69. Please see no. 5


70. While Shepherds Watched (Christmas)


71. Please see no. 5


72. Please see no. 5


73. Please see no. 5


74. Please see no. 5


75. Please see no. 5


76. Please see no. 5


77. Please see no. 5


78. Please see no. 5


79. What Will Your Harvest Be? (missions)


80. Antioch (Joy to the World) (Christmas)


81. Please see no. 5


82. Please see no. 5


83. Please see no. 5


84. Please see no. 5


85. My Name in My Mother's Prayer (1893) (mother song)


86. Please see no. 5


87. Please see no. 5


88. A Story Sweet and True* (1886) (praise, Easter)


89. The Bird with the Broken Wing (4th verse by Peter Bilhorn, copyright transfered to Bilhord 1895) (healing)


90. Please see no. 5


91. Please see no. 5


92. No To-night (become saved, for death could come at any time)


93. Please see no. 5


94. Trusting in Jesus Alone* (1894) (Jesus will holden our burdens, missions)


95. The Master Is Come** (1894) (invitation)


96. Please see no. 5


97. Please see no. 5


98. Softly and Tenderly (invitation)


99. Christ Is All (we only need Jesus)


100. Lead Me Savior (keep me from straying)


101. Keep Us Revived* (1894) (revival)


102. Steading Marching On (praise)


103. Art Thou Weary? (invitation)


104. Jesus, Thou my Only Refuge* (1894) (refuge)


105. Please see no. 5


106. Please see no. 5


107. Shall I Be Saved Tonight? (invitation before it's too late)


108. What Will You Do with the King? (invitation, call)


109. There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (healing, forgiveness)


110. Please see no. 5


111. Please see no. 5


112. My Redeemer Lives (praise)


113. Please see no. 5


114. Please see no. 5


115. Please see no. 5


116. Please see no. 5


117. Meet Me There (heaven)


118. Please see no. 5


119. Please see no. 5


120. His Yoke Is Easy (Scripture hymn)


121. Please see no. 5


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130. Please see no. 5


131. Please see no. 5


132. Having Done All, to Stand* (1891) (stand firm, armor of God)


133. My Title's Clear* (1891) (saved, salvation, heaven promised is mine)


134. Please see no. 5


135. Please see no. 5


136. Please see no. 5


137. Please see no. 5


138. Please see no. 5


139. Please see no. 5


140. They Sing a New Song* (1891) (heaven for those who have been forgiven)


141. Take My Life and Let It Be (commitment)


142. Please see no. 5


143. Please see no. 5


144. Please see no. 5


145. Please see no. 5


146. Some Mother's Boy* (1894) (Mother's Boy is lost in sin, who will go and save him?)


147. Give Me Jesus (commitment, choose Jesus)


148. Please see no. 5


149. Please see no. 5


150. Please see no. 5


151. Saved to the Uttermost (salvation, saved) (Ark of Praise


152. Please see no. 5


153. Please see no. 5


154. Please see no. 5


155. Nobody Knows But Jesus (Jesus understands)


156. Please see no. 5


157. Please see no. 5


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159. Please see no. 5


160. Please see no. 5


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162. Please see no. 5


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166. Please see no. 5


167. Please see no. 5


168. Please see no. 5


169. Please see no. 5


170. Cast All Your Care Upon Him* (1891) (Jesus understands.)


171. Please see no. 5


172. Abiding in Him (saved, so now resting)


173. Please see no. 5


174. Please see no. 5


175. Please see no. 5


176. Please see no. 5


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178. Please see no. 5


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180. Please see no. 5


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187. Please see no. 5


188. Please see no. 5


189. Please see no. 5


190. Blest Be the Tie (unity)


191. Come, Thou Fount (praise)


192. What a Friend (comfort)


193. Rock of Ages (comfort)


194. Cross and Crown (cross) (Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone)


195. Jesus, Lover of My Soul (refuge)


196. Just As I Am (commitment)


197. Am I a Soldier (called to service)


198. Nearer, My God to Thee (commitment)


199. Work, for the Night Is Coming (work)


200. There is a Fountain (blood song, forgiveness, washed clean)


201. I Hear the Savior Say (cross, justification, blood, washed clean)


202. I Hear Thy Welcome Voice (blood, forgiveness, washed clean)


203. All Hail the Power(praise)


204. Come to Jesus (invitation)


205. Come, Every Soul (invitation, commitment)


206. I Have a Savior (testimony)


207. Doxology (praise, Trinity)


208. Old Hundred praise, Trinity)


209. Gloria Patri

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