In kindness said

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Sometime when you were in trouble

Author: E. R. Latta
Tune: [Sometime when you were in trouble]
Published in 1 hymnal

Representative Text

1 Sometime when you were in trouble,
And your spirit seemed like lead,
Was it yours to feel the magic
Of a word in kindness said?

Refrain:
In kindness said,
In kindness said,
Say, was it yours to feel the magic
Of a word in kindness said?

2 When some aching heart was heavy,
And the tears were freely shed,
Did you try to give it comfort
By a word in kindness said? [Refrain]

3 Sometime vexed beyond endurance,
All your stock of patience fled,
Have you proved the helpful mission
Of a word in kindness said? [Refrain]

4 There will many chances offer,
Wheresoever we may tread,
And we should always improve them,
By a word in kindness said. [Refrain]

Source: Eureka Sunlight Glees: for use in singing schools, literary schools, conventions and musical societies, containing an excellent and varied collection of sacred and secular songs #55

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Author: E. R. Latta

Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being wi… Go to person page >

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