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Her performance of "I Surrender All" on the album won the Grammy Award for Best Female Soul Gospel Performance. 1 hit the previous year with " Let's Hear It for the Boy", released an album of gospel songs, titled So Glad I Know. In 1986, pop singer Deniece Williams, who had had a No. Graham subsequently popularized "I Surrender All" in his massive crusades and revivals, beginning in the late 1940s. In the late 1930s, when popular international evangelist Billy Graham was a student at Florida Bible Institute, he studied and fellowshipped with Judson Van DeVenter, and later stated that Van DeVenter greatly influenced his early preaching. It is both a classic hymn and, due to its gospel-like nature, also one that is performed by churches that prefer contemporary music. "I Surrender All" has continued to appear in numerous English-language hymnals since its publication. His tombstone is inscribed with the title of this hymn, "I Surrender All". Weeden published many hymns in several volumes, including The Peacemaker (1894), Songs of the Peacemaker (1895), and Songs of Sovereign Grace (1897). Weeden, born in Ohio in 1847, taught in singing schools prior to becoming an evangelist, and was a noted song leader and vocalist. The following year, Van DeVenter and Weeden also published their jointly written gospel hymn "Sunlight". "I Surrender All" was put to music by Weeden, and first published in 1896 in Gospel Songs of Grace and Glory, a collection of old and new hymns by various hymnists, compiled by Weeden, Van DeVenter, and Leonard Weaver, and published by Sebring Publishing Co. Van DeVenter published more than 60 hymns in his lifetime, but "I Surrender All" is his most famous. After his retirement, he remained involved in speaking and in religious gatherings. Toward the end of his life, Van DeVenter moved to Florida, and was professor of hymnology at the Florida Bible Institute for four years in the 1920s. Weeden, his associate and singer, assisted him for many years. įollowing his decision to surrender his life to the Divine, Van DeVenter traveled throughout the United States, England, and Scotland, doing evangelistic work.
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Finally, he surrendered his life to Christian service, and wrote the text of the hymn while conducting a meeting at the Ohio home of noted evangelist George Sebring. Van DeVenter wavered for five years between becoming a recognized artist or devoting himself to ministry. Recognizing his talent for the ministry, friends urged him to give up teaching and become an evangelist. Van DeVenter was also an active layman in his Methodist Episcopal Church, involved in the church's evangelistic meetings. He was, in addition, an accomplished musician, singer, and composer. Following graduation from Hillsdale College, he became an art teacher and supervisor of art in the public schools of Sharon, Pennsylvania. Judson Van DeVenter was born on a farm in Michigan in 1855.