Lowry was a faithful and successful minister of the Gospel, but is more widely known as a composer of sacred music. “I felt a sort of meanness when I began to be known as a composer,” he said. His first love was preaching. Music was to him a “side issue,” and the making and delivery of a sermon ranked far above the writing of a hymn. He is the author of the popular song, “Where is my wandering boy tonight,” and wrote the tune to “I need Thee every hour,” and edited many successful Sunday school and evangelistic hymn books. For further comments on Lowry see Hymn 187. 453. I know that my Redeemer liveth _Jessie H. Brown_, 1861-1921 A popular Easter song based on Job 19:25: “I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.” Jessie H. Brown was born in Hiram, a college suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Due to ill health in childhood, she gained most of her education at home. At 15 years of age, she began to write for Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies and for many years wrote hymns for Fillmore Bros. In 1896 she married Rev. John E. Pounds, at that time pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis, and later college pastor at Hiram. Her early poems bear her maiden name, while the later ones (No. 498, for example) are signed “Jessie B. Pounds.” She is the author of 9 books, 50 librettos for cantatas and operettas, and nearly 400 hymns. Her best known song poems are “Anywhere with Jesus, I can safely go,” “The way of the Cross leads home,” “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,” and the present, “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” The latter appeared first in an Easter cantata entitled, _Hope’s Messenger_. _MUSIC._ FILLMORE was composed by James H. Fillmore who was born June 1, 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio, into a musical family. After his father’s death, James headed the Fillmore music publishing business in Cincinnati for many years. His compositions include numerous popular titles: “I am resolved,” “I know that my Redeemer liveth,” “Only waiting,” and many more. 454. O the unsearchable riches of Christ _Fanny J. Crosby_, 1820-1915 The well-known fact that Fanny Crosby was blind all her life adds pathos to the power of her songs. The hymn reveals the spiritual riches in her life notwithstanding the cross of affliction laid on her through the loss of her eyesight. Frances Ridley Havergal (See Hymn 126), the gifted English poet and hymn writer, paid her tribute to Fanny Crosby in the following lines: How can she sing in the dark like this? What is her fountain of light and bliss? With never the light of a loving face Must not the world be a desolate place? O, her heart can see, her heart can see! And its sight is strong and swift and free. Never the ken of mortal eye Could pierce so deep and far and high As the eagle vision of hearts that dwell In that lofty, sunlit citadel.