BEHIND THE HYMN:

VECTORY IN JESUS

Reported by:jimmy
Eugene Monroe Bartlett, Sr.

He consider to
have made a major
impact on the
development of
southern Gospel.
Bartlett lived in the south and enjoyed a reputation as a
fine music teacher.

 Based in Arkansas, he traveled the entire southern

portion of the country holding singing schools for
anyone interested. These and similar schools trained
aspiring musicians in vocal technique, sight reading, and
conducting and were influential in the development of
church music as a whole for much of the remainder of
the century.
 Born-December 24,1885 in Waynesville,
Missouri.
• He grew up in Arkansas
• He was educated as a music teacher at Hall-
Moody institute in Tennessee and William
College in Missouri.
In 1917,
He married Joan Tatum the couple would have
two children together
1917,
• He established Hartford Company, which became
one of the first publishing companies for southern
Gospel music.
1918-1935
• he serve as company president .
• in additional to establish the music company, he
also establish the shape note school, the Hartford
music institute in 1921 and begun publishing a
monthly quartet magazine, The Herald of Song.
 E U G E N E M . BA RT L E T T, S R .
was a very successful business man, and decided
to invest his money in which he founded the
Hartford Music Company in Hartford, Arkansas
sometime in 1918.

Within the first year of business he sold more

than 15, 000 copies of his hymnbook.
 Many writers, singers and musicians received their first
opportunity in gospel music at Hartford Music Company.

Albert E. Brumley

 One of the writer of Hartford Music Company he wrote

"I'll Fly Away" and "Turn Your Radio On."
Bartlett's mission was to publish hymns and teach
singers to sight read. He hired instructors to teach voice,
piano, piano tuning, rudiments, harmony and stringed
instruments. He also was editor of the music
magazine, Herald of Song. His son Eugene, Jr. was also a
hymnist and composer. When he was not instructing,
Bartlett was an avid composer of hymns and gospel songs.
. His son Eugene, Jr. was also a hymnist and compos-
er. When he was not instructing, Bartlett was an avid
composer of hymns and gospel songs.
"Victory In Jesus"

remains one of the most popular and widely known

songs of the church.

In 1939

 A stroke rendered Bartlett partially paralyzed and

unable to perform or travel.
 he wrote his final and most beloved song, “Victory in
Jesus,” an optimistic number that has been sung by
millions in worship services and recorded by gospel’s
biggest names.

 The three verses and refrain enthusiastically tell of

one's own personal salvation experience from beginning to
end.
History from the Bible:

1 Chorenthians 15:57

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory

though our Lord Jesus Christ.”
It's said that Bartlett missed traveling and teaching, but he
could still study the Bible, a study from which he gave us
this wonderful song during a time when much of the earth
sat on the brink of World War II.

 The song first appeared that year in "Gospel Choruses,"

a paperback songbook published by James Vaughan in
Lawrenceburg, Tenn.
Only two years after his stroke

January 25, 1941

 Bartlett died

 He is buried at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Siloam

Springs in Benton County.

 Throughout his 56 years of his life, Bartlett composed

more than 800 songs.
Since the early 1960s,
"Victory in Jesus" has become popular among
evangelical congregations, Quartets, and many hymnals
have included it within their published pages.
 Bartlett was inducted into the Gospel
Music Association’s Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee,
in 1973.
Thank you for
understanding