Palmer Hartsough, Baptist Preacher
Born: May 7, 1844, Redford, Michigan.
Died: October 24, 1932, Plymouth, Michigan.
Hartsough attended Kalamazoo College and Michigan State Normal. After working as a traveling singing teacher in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, Hartsough opened a music studio in Rock Island, Illinois, around 1877. In 1893, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he joined the Fillmore Music Company. In Cincinnati, he acted as music director at the Bethel Mission and at the Ninth Street Baptist Church. Hartsough was ordained a Baptist minister in 1906, pastoring in Ontario, Michigan, for 13 years. He retired in 1927.
Best known, perhaps, for his writing of the famous Hymn, "I am resolved," sung many times in our Pentecostal Holiness Church.....
I am resolved no longer to linger,
Charmed by the world’s delight,
Things that are higher, things that are nobler,
These have allured my sight.
Refrain:
I will hasten to Him,
Hasten so glad and free;
Jesus, greatest, highest,
I will come to Thee.
I am resolved to go to the Savior,
Leaving my sin and strife;
He is the true One, He is the just One,
He hath the words of life.
I am resolved to follow the Savior,
Faithful and true each day;
Heed what He sayeth, do what He willeth,
He is the living Way.
I am resolved to enter the kingdom,
Leaving the paths of sin;
Friends may oppose me, foes may beset me,
Still will I enter in.
I am resolved, and who will go with me?
Come, friends, without delay;
Taught by the Bible, led by the Spirit,
We’ll walk the heav’nly way.
Born: May 7, 1844, Redford, Michigan.
Died: October 24, 1932, Plymouth, Michigan.
Hartsough attended Kalamazoo College and Michigan State Normal. After working as a traveling singing teacher in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, Hartsough opened a music studio in Rock Island, Illinois, around 1877. In 1893, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he joined the Fillmore Music Company. In Cincinnati, he acted as music director at the Bethel Mission and at the Ninth Street Baptist Church. Hartsough was ordained a Baptist minister in 1906, pastoring in Ontario, Michigan, for 13 years. He retired in 1927.
Best known, perhaps, for his writing of the famous Hymn, "I am resolved," sung many times in our Pentecostal Holiness Church.....
I am resolved no longer to linger,
Charmed by the world’s delight,
Things that are higher, things that are nobler,
These have allured my sight.
Refrain:
I will hasten to Him,
Hasten so glad and free;
Jesus, greatest, highest,
I will come to Thee.
I am resolved to go to the Savior,
Leaving my sin and strife;
He is the true One, He is the just One,
He hath the words of life.
I am resolved to follow the Savior,
Faithful and true each day;
Heed what He sayeth, do what He willeth,
He is the living Way.
I am resolved to enter the kingdom,
Leaving the paths of sin;
Friends may oppose me, foes may beset me,
Still will I enter in.
I am resolved, and who will go with me?
Come, friends, without delay;
Taught by the Bible, led by the Spirit,
We’ll walk the heav’nly way.