Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus

 O soul, are you weary and troubled?

Author: Helen Howarth Lemmel (1922)

Tune: LEMMEL (Lemmel)

               Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus

1. O soul, are you weary and troubled?

No light in the darkness you see?

There’s light for a look at the Savior,

And life more abundant and free!

Refrain:

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,

Look full in His wonderful face,

And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,

In the light of His glory and grace.

2. Thro' death into life everlasting,

He passed, and we follow Him there;

O’er us sin no more hath dominion--

For more than conqu’rors we are!

3. His Word shall not fail you--He promised;

Believe Him, and all will be well:

Then go to a world that is dying,

His perfect salvation to tell!

               Author: Helen Howarth Lemmel

Short Name: Helen H. Lemmel

Full Name: Lemmel, Helen Howarth, 1864-1961

Birth Year: 1864

Death Year: 1961

Born: November 14, 1863, Wardle, England.

Died: November 1, 1961, at her home in Seattle, Washington.

Buried: Lemmel was cremated, but her final resting place is unknown to us.

Daughter of a Methodist minister, Helen emigrated from England with her family to America when she was 12 years old. They first settled in Mississippi, then relocated to Wisconsin. She moved to Seattle in 1904, and for three years was music critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. While interviewing German singer Ernestine Schumann-Hein, Helen was persuaded to go to Europe. A gifted singer, she studied music in Germany for four years. Upon her return to America, she began giving concerts and traveling on the Chautauqua circuit. Eventually, she became a vocal music teacher at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. After retirement, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she was a member of the Ballard Baptist Church. Among her works are a hymnal used by evangelist Billy Sunday for over a decade. Lemmel and a women’s choral group she directed were part of Sunday’s group at the peak of his career.

Sources:

Hustad, pp. 272-73

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 3, 1961