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GHS 198 - His Love Can Never Fail

   / madenn10   When this gospel hymn was first published in Songs for Young People (1897), the lyrics were credited to E.S. Hall, and the music to E.O. Excell (1851–1921). Excell was a well-known gospel hymn writer and publisher at the time, but the name E.S. Hall, apart from this one song, is unknown. In attempting to identify E.S. Hall, there are two possibilities: either Hall was a one-time hymn writer who was fortunate to have a text set to music and published by Excell, or Hall could be a pseudonym for someone else. Evidence weighs in favor of the latter possibility, especially for E.S. Hall as a pseudonym for Charles H. Gabriel (1856–1932). The rationale for this connection is as follows: 1. In the biography of Charles Gabriel written by Mel Wilhoit in 1982, Wilhoit noted, “Because of the vast amount of material Gabriel produced, he resorted to the use of over twenty different pseudonyms, especially for his texts.”[1] 2. In an announcement in The Epworth Herald, 12 June 1897, the writer described Excell and Gabriel singing this song together: The young people will be delighted to know that Prof. E.O. Excell, editor of Songs for Young People, will be present at the Toronto Epworth League convention and will lead the chorus at the Massey Hall meetings. Besides this, Professor Excell will sing some special solos at all the other places of meeting of the great Toronto gathering. Prof. C.H. Gabriel, also of Chicago, will probably accompany him, and in that event such duet singing will be heard as only Chicago, which furnishes the best in the world, can furnish. It is worth a trip to Toronto to hear them sing “His Love Can Never Fail,” printed on the anniversary program this year.[2] 3. In Gabriel’s autobiography, Sixty Years of Gospel Song (ca. 1932), he described being present at Excell’s deathbed and named some of the songs they premiered together: For more than thirty years I was intimately associated with the late E.O. Excell, and a bond of friendship was forged between us that even death has not been able to break, for the roadway toward the setting sun is just a little rougher and less interesting to me because of his absence. I knew him as he was, and as few others knew him. Mr. Excell possessed a remarkable voice of quality, range and power, and as a conductor of sacred music he had no superior. Together we sang the gospel throughout all parts of our country, and in Canada. He was heard for the last time in the Chapel of Wesley Hospital, Chicago, Sunday afternoon, January 16th, 1921. Sitting in a wheelchair he sang “It is Jesus” with wonderful effect. At that time we sang together for the last time the song we had made popular: “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.” No longer to him is that a “Somewhere”; he has discovered its shore and lives in its sunlight. Many of the gospel songs that have become popular we started on their mission by singing them as duets. “Scatter Sunshine,” “His Love Can Never Fail,” “A Sinner Made Whole,” “Let the Sunshine In,” “The Way of the Cross Leads Home,” and others.[3] This hymn was therefore born out of the lifelong musical partnership of Excell and Gabriel, and was popularized in part by their singing it as a duet. In its first printing in Songs for Young People (1897 | Fig. 1), a collection edited by Excell, it was given in three stanzas with a refrain. View fullsize #joy_hymns #joy_songs #madenn10 #joy_hymns #joy_songs #madenn10