Hello friends & family,
Thank you so much for taking time to view my post. I discovered a beautiful hymn and wanted to share it. My hope is that you too will be blessed by it. As I was digging deeper into the song and the song writer I found myself searching for more and more. The song “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” was written by Helen H. Lemmel (1863-1961) in 1922.
Helen was a gifted concert soloist, a music teacher at the Moody Bible Institute, and music critic for the Seattle Post.
She also worked as director of a woman’s choral group that was a regular part of the Billy Sunday evangelical meetings. Helen wrote the words and music of Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus in 1922, to be sung at those meetings.
The inspiration for Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, which Helen entitled The Heavenly Vision, came from the writings of author and artist Lilias Trotter (1853-1928).
Isabella Lilias Trotter (1853–1928) was a gifted artist and Protestant missionary to Algeria during the Victorian Era.
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
By: Helen H. Lemmel
“For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”
— 1 Corinthians 13:12 —
~Charlotte, Seeker of unexpected Comfort, Happiness, Joy and Patience.
References:
https://www.oregonlive.com/religion/2012/04/eyes_upon_jesus.html
http://www.theconservationcenter.com/articles/2084427-lilias-trotter-missionary-artist
https://wherelivingbegins.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/helen-lemmel-1863-1961/.
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/e/m/m/lemmel_hh.htm
Books by I. Lilias Trotter
Between the Desert and the Sea
Parables of the Cross
Parables of the Christ-life
The Master of the Impossible
The Way of the Seven-fold Secret
Booklets by I.Lilias Trotter
Back-ground and Fore-ground
A Challenge to Faith
Cherry Blossom
Focussed: A Story and a Song
The Glory of the Impossible
Heavenly Light on the Daily Path
A Life on Fire
Literature for Moslem Boys
A Ripened Life
Sand Lilies
Smouldering
A South Land
A Thirsty Land and God’s Channels
Trained to Rule
Vibrations
Winter Buds
Story Parables by I. Lilias Trotter
The Bag of Wool
The Bedouin and His Camel
The Blood Feud of El Hanouchi
The Debt of Ali Ben Omar
The field of Sahab en Niya
Landsnakes and Seasnakes
The Letter That Came from a Far Country
The Lost Ones in the Sahara
Neseefa the Slave Girl
The Robe of Er-Rashid
The Story of the Nightingale
Water Lilies: A Paper for Mothers
Books about I. Lilias Trotter
Elisabeth Elliot. A Path Through Suffering. Meditations based on Trotter’s Parables of the Cross and Parables of the Christ-life. Ann Arbor: Vine books, 1992 (in print).
Constance E. Padwick. I. Lilias Trotter. Croydon: Watson, n.d.
Blanche A. F. Pigott. I. Lilias Trotter. London: Marshall, 1929.
Miriam Rockness. A Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter. Discovery House Publishers, 1999. (in print).
Miriam Rockness. A Blossom in the Desert: Reflections of Faith in the Art and Writings of Lilias Trotter. Discovery House Publishers, 2007. (in print)
I . R. Govan Stewart. The Love That Was Stronger. London: Lutterworth Press, 1958.
Patricia St. John. Until The Day Breaks. Bronley, Kent: OM Publishing 1990 (in print).
*All works, unless otherwise noted, are out of print. Copies of these works are housed at the Trotter Archives at the Arab World Ministries United Kingdom Headquarters in Loughborough, England.
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