Page 409
THE
CHRISTIAN'S
NIGHTLY
SONG.
6,
6,
10.
Cluster,
p.
382.
Original.
"To
the
praise
of
the
glory
of
his
grace."-Eph.
1:6.
Key
of
E
Minor.
E.
T.
Pound,
1859.
I'll sing
my
Sa
-
viour's
grace,
And
his
sweet
name
I'll
praise,
While
in
this
land
of
sor -
row
I
re-main.
My
But
oh,
and
shall
I
then
Be
-
hold
the
friend
of
men,
The
man
who
suf
-
fered,
bled
and
died
for
me:
Who
sor
-
rows
soon
shall
end,
And
then
my
soul
as
-
cend.
Where
freed
from
trou
-
ble,
sor
-
row,
sin
and
pain.
pain.
bore
my
load
of
sin,
and
Sor-row
and
grief
and
pain
To
make
me
hap
-
py
and
set
me
free.
free.
Prof.
E.
T.
Pound
is
one
of
Georgia's
best
known
music
teachers
and
composers.
He
composed
two
tunes
for
The
Sacred
Harp,
"The
Loved
Ones"
and
"
The
Christian's
Nightly
Song."
He
has
taught
singing
schools
in
Georgia
for
over
fifty
years.
He
has
held
normal
schools
for
instructions
for
over
30
years.
He
was
an
associate
of
B.
F.
White
in
the
early
days
of
The
Sacred
Harp.
He
has
been
a
hard
student,
and
nas
done
much
to
advance
the
cause
of
music
in
this
State
and
in
the
South.
He
was
one
of
the
revisors
of
The
Sacred
Harp,
and
helped
to
add
an
appendix
to
it
in
1850.
He
has
belonged
to
the
Southern
Musical
Convention
for
over
half
a
century,
and
has
been
the
president
of
it
for
many
years.
He
has
composed
a
large
number
of
music
books
and
much
valuable
music
in
other
books
than
his
own.
He
invented
a
new
system
of
music,
notes
or
characters
in
the
notes,
and
has
published
a
great
many
of
his
tunes
in
his
own
notation.
He
is
well
up
in
music
on
all
lines,
and
continues
to
teach
and
attend
all
the
music
gatherings,
and
is
full
of
energy
and
activity
for
a
man
of
his
age,
and
bids
fair
to
live
many
years.
Words
from
Mercer's
Cluster,
1823,
page
382,
by
Jesse
Mercer.