Charles Albert Tindley

Life

Born: 7 July 1851 in Berlin, Maryland

Died: 26 July 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Biography

American Methodist minister and gospel music composer. Born to Charles and Esther Miller Tindley; his mother died when he was two, then raised by his father. Largely self-educated, but his knowledge of the Bible and preaching given high praise by many. Joined Phildelphia's Bainbridge Street Methodist Church in 1880, serving as a janitor – but in 1902 assigned to the same church as their pastor. The church moved to a larger site in 1906 and renamed East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church (now Tindley Temple United Methodist Church). It grew greatly under his leadership, eventually becoming a multiracial congregation of over 10,000. Tindley wrote over 40 hymns, many still in use today.

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List of choral works

A. Listed by title

After a While A Better Home Consolation God Will Provide for Me He'll Take You Through Heaven's Christmas Tree Here Am I, Send Me The Home of the Soul I Will Go, if My Father Holds My Hand I'll Be Satisfied

I'll Overcome Some Day I'm Going There In Me It May Be the Best for Me Joyous Anticipation Just Today Leave It There My Secret of Joy Nothing Between Some Day

Someone is Waiting for Me Spiritual Springtime Stand By Me The Lord Will Make the Way The Storm is Passing Over Today We'll Understand It Better By and By What Are They Doing in Heaven? Will You Be There?

B. Listed by first line

Courage my soul, and let us travel on I have heard of a tree I'm on way way to heaven above

I've wandered in the darness long enough We are tossed and driven on the restless sea of time When the pathway of duty seems with danger filled

Ye pilgrims throught this vale of tears You ask me where I get the joys There is a land that is free from tears

Arrangements by Charles Albert Tindley

• A Better Day is Coming By and By (Charles Albert Tindley)

 
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Publications

• 1905 – Soul Echoes, with George Lincoln Blackwell and Josiah Samuel Caldwell, second edition 1909
• 1916 – New Songs of Paradise

References

• Kimbrough, S. T. Jr. and Carlton R. Young. 2006. Beams of Heaven: Hymns of Charles Albert Tindley. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church.
• Abbington, James. 2006. Introduction. In Beams of Heaven: Hymns of Charles Albert Tindley. Reprinted in Abbington, James. 2009. Let the Church Sing On! Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 47-57.