Charles Hutchinson Gabriel

GABRIEL, Charles Hutchinson. b. Wilton, Iowa, 18 August 1856; d. Hollywood, California, 14 September 1932. Following in his father’s footsteps, Charles Gabriel became a singing school teacher at the age of  16, and after 1887 served as music director in the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. His first great success was ‘There's a call comes ringing o'er the restless wave’*, after which he settled in Chicago, the center for evangelical and revivalist publishing, in 1892. He devoted the rest of his life to writing, composing, editing, and publishing. A list of his works includes over 7,000 Sunday-school songs, gospel hymns, anthems, cantatas, and almost a hundred collections. Terry W...