Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 51 · American Gospel Song · Page 75 in print
Philip Bliss
Philip Bliss once sent a song manuscript to George Root and asked for a flute in payment. Root recalled accepting the song and sending the instrument.
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Ashtabula
The Ohio location of the rail disaster.
Bassini
One of the instructors at the Geneseo music academy.
Clearfield
His Pennsylvania birth county.
East Troy
The place where he studied.
Elk Run
The place where he attended school and church.
Flute
The instrument Bliss requested in exchange for a song.
Geneseo
The New York town where he attended music training.
Hartsville
The New York community where he taught.
Lucy Young
The woman who became Bliss’s wife and assisted his work.
Major Whittle
Bliss’s preaching partner.
Perkins
Theodore E. Perkins, one of his teachers.
Philip Bliss
The gospel composer and singer.
Rome Academy
A school where Bliss taught.
Waukegan
The town of their trial evangelistic meetings.
Winnebago
The Illinois convention where they first worked together.
Sources
- Philip P. BlissJ. H. Hall, Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers (1914), public domain, transcribed by Hymnology Archive