Charles Albert Tindley

Charles A. Tindley

Life

Born: 7 July 1851 in Berlin, Maryland

Died: 26 July 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Biography

American Methodist minister, gospel music composer and hymn writer. 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. A few gospel hymns in Tindley's books were composed by his sons, Charles A. Tindley, Jr. and Frederick J. Tindley.

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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

A better day is coming Beams of heaven, as I go Courage my soul, and let us travel on If the Savior wants some body Ever since I have been Here I may be weak and poor I am thinking of friends I have found the peace of heaven I have heard of a tree I hear of a city, a heavenly home

If the world from you withhold I'm on way way to heaven above I often wonder why it is It may be a brother with whom I did play I've wandered in the darkness long enough Lifetime is like a single day Like the action of the ground Nothing between my soul and the Savior Since I began to serve the Lord The hills of life which you must climb

The world of forms and changes There is a land that is free from tears This world is one great battlefield Thou, O Christ, my Lord and King We are tossed and driven on the restless sea of time What if all the world was offered unto me When the pathway of duty seems with danger filled When the storms of life are raging Ye pilgrims throught this vale of tears You ask me where I get the joys

Arrangements by Charles Albert Tindley

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

Settings of text by Charles Albert Tindley

• A Better Day is Coming By and By (Charles Albert Tindley)
• After a While (Charles Albert Tindley)
• A Better Home (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Christ is the Way (Charles A. Tindley, Jr.)
• Consolation (Charles Albert Tindley)
• God Will Provide for Me (Charles Albert Tindley)
• He'll Take You Through (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Heaven's Christmas Tree (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Here Am I, Send Me (Charles Albert Tindley)
• The Home of the Soul (Charles Albert Tindley)
• I Will Go, if My Father Holds My Hand (Charles Albert Tindley)
• I'll Be Satisfied (Charles Albert Tindley)
• I'll Overcome Some Day (Charles Albert Tindley)
• I'm Going There (Charles Albert Tindley)
• In Me (Charles Albert Tindley)
• It May Be the Best for Me (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Joyous Anticipation (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Just Today (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Leave It There (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Mountain Top Dwelling (Charles A. Tindley, Jr.)
• My Secret of Joy (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Nothing Between (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Saved and Satisfied (Frederick J. Tindley)
• Some Day (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Someone is Waiting for Me (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Spiritual Springtime (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Stand By Me (Charles Albert Tindley)
• The Lord Will Make the Way (Charles Albert Tindley)
• The Storm is Passing Over (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Today (Charles Albert Tindley)
• We'll Understand It Better By and By (Charles Albert Tindley)
• What Are They Doing in Heaven? (Charles Albert Tindley)
• Will You Be There? (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, further editions in 1919, 1921, 1923, 1934, and 1941

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.