The Rodeheaver Party

              The Rodeheaver Party
Program Chautauqua Season 1918


HOMER RODEHEAVER Baritone - Trombonist - Reader


DIRECTION OF COIT-ALBER CHAUTAUQUA COMPANY
O. B. STEPHENSON Manager


GEORGE ASHLEY BREWSTER Tenor - Pianist



ROBERT MATTHEWS Pianist




Let Us Get Acquainted
Get acquainted with your neighbor.  You might like him.



HOMER RODEHEAVER
Mr. Rodeheaver was born in Ohio, raised in east Tennessee, was a saw-mill man and worked in the lumber and logging camps of the Cumberland Mountains.

He joined the Fourth Tennessee Regiment and was in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, although he wants it distinctly understood that he was not old enough to go at the time,—in fact he was very young to be a soldier.

He was in school in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio.

Studied music in New York and Philadelphia.

Was with Dr. Biederwolf in evangelistic work five years.  Has been the musical director for Mr. Sunday eight years.



GEORGE ASHLEY BREWSTER
Born in Chicago, and after spending his boyhood in Iowa, his parents moved to Illinois, where he was privileged to take up his musical studies under the best teachers obtainable in Chicago, later spending some time in New York.  He has been a teacher of voice for a number of years, and has sung with most of the leading musical organizations of the Middle West.  Before devoting his life to music he had learned the printer's trade, and had some experience in the banking world.  He has been for the past three years with the Sunday party as pianist and soloist.



ROBERT MATTHEWS
Mr. Matthews was born in Kentucky, son of the late Rev. Dr. R. J. L. Matthews.  He is a resident of Carrollton, Ky., and an elder in the First Presbyterian church.

He is a graduate of Lake Forest University and received his musical education in Chicago, Paris and Milan.

For five years he was on the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune.  Just prior to the outbreak of the war he circumnavigated the globe.  He has been secretary to Mr. Sunday for three years.



THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.

Chorus.


Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream.

Chorus.


'Tis the star-spangled banner; Oh long may it wave
Oe'r the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto:  In God is our trust!

Chorus.


And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
Oe'r the land of the free, and the home of the brave.



AMERICA

My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died!
Land of the pilgrims' pride!
From ev'ry mountain side Let freedom ring.
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free, Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake,
Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong.
Our father's God, to Thee,
Author of liberty, To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King!




For the accommodation of our friends who are interested in the different things we will be presenting, we are including in this program advertisements of the different publications from which most of these different numbers are taken.  On some of the programs, Mr. Rodeheaver will show some of the magical objects that he uses to entertain and teach the children, in connection with the great evangelistic campaigns.  He is always ready and willing to explain any of these to any teachers or preachers who might be interested, and who would want to use them.

Dr. Woolston, Dr. Clarence Lane, and Mr. Rodeheaver have colaborated in the publication of a little book of Twenty-five Object Lessons.  It explains how to make and use magical objects in teaching.  The price is 25c.

A larger book along this line is Seeing Truth by Dr. C. H. Woolston.  Any of these publications, or any of the flags or other materials, can be secured through the Rodeheaver Company, 440 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill.

Mr. Rodeheaver, Mr. Matthews and Mr. Brewster are quite familiar with the real typical plantation songs of the South before the war.  There has been a revival of interest in these songs lately.  They will sing some of them on their programs.  The Rodeheaver Company has a splendid collection of these characteristic songs entitled Plantation Melodies.  The price is 25c.

Ministers and Choir Leaders Will Find Valuable Material for Illustration in Song Stories of the Sawdust Trail

By Homer A. Rodeheaver Famous Trombone Soloist and Popular Leader of the Billy Sunday Tabernacle Choir

With an Indorsement and Foreword by REV. WM. A. SUNDAY

You will be intensely interested in these songs and their stories.  Each story is a drama from REAL LIFE, told in vivid, simple language that thrills.  The Rodeheaver optimism and geniality radiate throughout the pages of this book.  Mr. Rodeheaver has brought into his writings the same personality that brightens and intensifies the religious ardor of the Tabernacle Services.

Each of the songs is reproduced in words and music alongside the story of conversion with which it is connected.  The book consists of 218 pages—in clear, easily read type—handsomely bound in cloth and gilt stamped.

Price $1 net.  10c extra for postage.

For any of the publications mentioned in this leaflet, address THE RODEHEAVER CO., 440 S. Dearborn St., Chicago; 807 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.



Columbia's Song.
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY HOMER A. RODEHEAVER.
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT SECURED.

Mrs. Frank A. Breck. 
CHORUS.

Chas. H. Gabriel.


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Mr. Rodeheaver, Mr. Brewster and Mr. Matthews will arrange their programs largely from the following numbers.  If you find any selections here you would specially like to hear, send in the request and they will favor you, if possible.



SONGS BY MR. RODEHEAVER


The Recessional (Kipling)

DeKoven


Kings of the Road

Frederick Bevan


Abou Ben Adhem

Dr. J. B. Herbert


A Banjo Song

Sidney Homer


Uncle Rome

Sidney Homer


Traditional Zuni Indian Songs

Carlos Troyer



Zuni Lover's Wooing, or Blanket Song.




The Sunrise Call.



Lindy

W. H. Neidlinger


The Land for Me

Clarence Stephens


Sunset

Dudley Buck


Sometime You Shall Know

Tom Bird and Homer Rodeheaver


Should the Stars in Your Service Flag Turn to Gold

Chas. H. Gabriel


The Colors That Will Not Run

Chas. H. Gabriel


We'll Be Waiting When You Come Back Home

Homer Rodeheaver


America for Me

C. Austin Miles





DUETS BY MR. RODEHEAVER AND MR. BREWSTER


The Fisherman
Gabussi


I Feel Thy Angel Spirit
Graben-Hoffman


Columbia for Me
Gabriel


O My Soul, Bless Thou Jehovah
Arranged from Donizetti by Dr. J. B. Herbert


O Love That Will Not Let Me Go (Trombone and Voice)
By Dr. J. B. Herbert


Silent Night
Geo. B. Nevin


In This Solemn Hour (Forces of Destiny)
Verdi


Hunting Song (King Arthur)
Bullard


Under the Desert Star
Gordon


One Fleeting Hour






SONGS BY MR. BREWSTER


Land of Mine

MacDermid


Fiona

Adams


My Own United States

Edwards


The Spirit of Liberty

Townsend


The Gunner

Wood


Sundown

Barradell



(Words by B. L. T. of the Chicago Tribune)



The House o' Dream

MacDermid


Life's Garden




A Hundred Years from Now

Jacobs-Bond


Sing to Me, Sing




Way Down South

Homer


O for a Breath of the Moorlands

Whelpley


Rhapsodie

Campbell-Tipton


Jean

Spross


Little Mother of Mine

Burleigh


Calling to Thee

Cadman


In Happy Mood

Chaminade


Come

d'Hardelot


Pleading

Elgar



Mother Machree.  A perfect Day.  The Sunshine of Your Smile.  The Awakening of Sweet William.  The Gypsy Trail.  There's a Long, Long Trail.  Bendemeer's Stream.  O Dry Those Tears.



THINGS BY MR. MATTHEWS


Humoresque, Old Folks at Home
Dvorak
Foster


Symphony The Desert (26th)
Bachoven


The Man Who Knew One Tune
Origin Unknown


Valse
Durand


Moon Moths
Kuessner


Nocturne
Chopin


Impromptu in G Major
Matthews


Paraphrase on French Melody
Matthews


Paraphrase on Old Gospel Hymn
Matthews


Piano Chimes




Continued on next page.



Believing that people are interested and helped by what they can have a part in themselves, a part of each program will be given to congregational singing.  Throughout this leaflet we are printing some of the songs that will be used in this way.  Pick out your favorites and let us know which ones to sing.




We'll Be Waiting When You Come Back Home.
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY HOMER A. ROOEHEAVER.
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT SECURED.

CHORUS.

Homer A. Rodeheaver.


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TROMBONE SOLOS BY MR. RODEHEAVER


The Marseillaise
French National Air


The Holy City
Stephen Adams


Calvary
Rodney


The Palms
Faure


Romance
Bennett


The Rosary
Nevin


Perfect Day
Bond


Bonnie, Sweet Bessie, the Maid of Dundee
Old Scotch Melody


Open the Gates
Mrs. Joseph F. Knapp


My Old Kentucky Home



Serenade (Falling of the Leaves)
Schubert


Intermezzo (From Cavaleria Rusticana)
Mascagni





READINGS BY MR. RODEHEAVER


When Malindy Sings
Paul Lawrence Dunbar


Bart of Brighton
H. F. Day


Me and Pap and Mother
Strickland Gillilan


Gumption
Roland A. Nicols


The First Settler's Story
Will Corlton


With Sherman to the Sea
Fred Emerson Brooks


The Finest of All
Strickland Gillilan


The Kid Has Gone to the Colors
Wm. Herschell


If I Could Be by Her
Ben King


Daddy
Roland A. Nicols


That Little Chap o' Mine






Carry Your Cross With a Smile.
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY HOMER A. RODEHEAVER.
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT SECURED.

Ina Duley Ogdon.
CHORUS.

Chas. H. Gabriel.


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THRILLING PATRIOTIC SONGS
We have a series of songs listed below we recommend as among the very best patriotic songs of the day.  The words and music have been carefully edited and will create great enthusiasm in camp or trench or in the navy.  Let us urge you to send your boys a copy of the following songs:

It's My Flag, Too.
The Colors That Will Not Run.
They Have Called Us to the Colors.
We're All Uncle Sam's Boy's Now.
Columbia Song.
I'llCarry Mother's Bible.
Back to Mother's God.
We'll Be Waiting When You Come Back Home.
The Same Old Flag.
Good-bye, My Boy.
Liberty.
Should the Stars in Your Service Flag Turn to Gold.


We will send the above songs to one address for $1.00 postpaid.  This is a fine way to display patriotism.



It's My Flg, Too!
CHORUS.


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Cooyright, 1918, by Homer A. Rodeheaver.  International Copyright Secured.



We are reprinting here one of the poems used by Homer A. Rodeheaver and selected from his little book, Worth While Poems, taken from his own personal scrap book.



Sing a Song

If you'll sing a song as you go along,
In the face of a real or a fancied wrong;
If, in spite of the doubt, you will fight it out
And show a heart that is brave and stout;
If you'll laugh at the jeers and refuse the tears,
You'll force the ever reluctant cheers
That the world denies when a coward cries
And gives to the man who bravely tries,—
And you'll win success with a little song,
If you'll sing the song as you go along.
If you'll sing a song as you go along,
You'll find that the singing will make you strong.
And the heavy load and the rugged road,
And the sting and the stripe of the tortuous goad
Will soar with the note that you set afloat,
That the beam will change to a trifling moat,—
That the world is bad when you are sad,
And bright and beautiful when you are glad;
And that all you need is a little song,
If you'll sing the song as you trudge along.



Worth While Poems
Here is a very artistic little booklet containing many of the poems Mr. Homer A. Rodeheaver uses so effectively in his evangelistic work and public readings.  Sixty-four pages, nicely printed on plate paper and attractively bound.  Some of the selections have never before appeared in a book.  Price, 25 cents.




BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

Chorus.


Glory!  glory, hallelujah!
Glory!  glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.


I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat.
O be swift, my soul, to answer Him!  be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free;
While God is marching on.



ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS

Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before;
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle, see His banner go!

Refrain


Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
At the sign of triumph, satan's host doth flee;
On, then, Christian soldiers, on to victory!
Hell's foundations quiver at the shout of praise,
Brothers, lift your voices, loud your anthems raise.

Refrain


Like a mighty army moves the Church of God;
Brothers we are treading where the saints have trod;
We are not divided; all one body we,
One in hope and doctrine, one in charity.

Refrain



LAND OF MINE
(Chorus.)


Land of mine, mine, mine!
Oh, land of mine, mine, mine!
From Atlantic to Pacific,
From the palm tree to the pine,
With the old flag waving o'er you
There's no foe can stand before you
Land of mine!  Land of mine!
Land of mine, mine, MINE!

COPYRIGHT 1917. BY J.,S. MACDERMID.

The complete song of the above chorus, words by Wilbur D. Nesbit, music by Jas. MacDermid, in full sheet music form, with piano score, 30c; octavo form, for mixed chorus, 10c.



THE SLIGHTED STRANGER AND OTHER POEMS
By Chas. H. Gabriel
Autographed Edition

For a limited time only we will send a copy of this splendid collection for seventy-five cents.  This book was published to sell at $1.25.  Into this volume are gathered the choicest gems that have emanated from the versatile pen of Mr. Gabriel during the past quarter century.  This book makes an excellent gift, one which will be prized by the lovers of beautiful poetry as well as by all lovers of Mr. Gabriel's songs.  Besides making a desirable gift for some loved one, you will want a volume for your own library.  Books will be forwarded to any address you name.

256 pages.  Beautifully bound and printed.



SHOULD THE STARS IN YOUR SERVICE FLAG TURN TO GOLD

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CHICAGO 440  Street

Rodeheaver COMPANY

PHILADELPHIA 997  Street

This splendid song has a tender message that will inspire and sustain you.  It is delightful as to words and music.  Was first rendered at the Billy Sunday Tabernacle in Chicago by Homer Rodeheaver and made a profound impression.  This message is especially desirable for Red Cross work and we recommend it to the local chapters.  The Rodeheaver Co., Chicago or Philadelphia, will mail a copy postpaid upon receipt of 25 cents.



OUR COUNTRY'S SONGS
COMPILED BY HOMER A. RODEHEAVER

EDITED BY CHAS. H. GABRIEL


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Many patriotic citizens are distributing these books in large quantities in soldiers' and sailors' encampments.  We make a substantial discount on 500 copies for this purpose.  The regular price is 10 cents a copy postpaid, $6.00 per hundred, not prepaid.

PUBLISHED BY
THE RODEHEAVER COMPANY
CHICAGO … PHILADELPHIA
U. S. A.

48 pages of old and new patriotic songs, folk songs and gospel songs.  A very useful book just now.




Great Gospel Songs
Brighten the Corner is possibly the most popular gospel song of recent years.  It is one of the many fine songs in Awakening Songs, the great song book used in the Sunday evangelistic meetings.  There is no more useful book than this for church.  Sunday School and Young People's services.

The prices are:

Cloth bound:  35c per single copy, postpaid; any quantity not prepaid, 30c per copy.

Limp bound:  25c per single copy, postpaid; any quantity not prepaid, 22c per copy.

Manila bound:  22c per single copy, postpaid; any quantity not prepaid, 18c per copy.

Send us the coupon below and 30c and we will mail you a cloth-bound copy by return mail.



(Coupon) THE RODEHEAVER COMPANY
440 S. Dearborn St. Chicago, Ill.
I am enclosing 30c for which send me cloth-bound copy of Awakening Songs.

Name

Street No. or R. F. D

Town

State



28 Brighten the Corner Where You Are.
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY CHAS. H GABRIEL.
HOMER A. RODEHEAVER, OWNER

Ina Duley Ogdon.

Chas. H. Gabriel.


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(A Post Card Will Do)
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