Hall grad­u­at­ed with hon­ors from the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia; he lat­er re­ceived an hon­or­a­ry Doc­tor of Mu­sic de­gree from Har­ri­man Un­i­ver­si­ty. He wrote can­ta­tas, or­a­tor­i­os, choir an­thems, and hun­dreds of Gos­pel songs, and ed­it­ed sev­er­al hymn­als. He was ap­par­ent­ly an ex­cep­tion­al song lead­er and chor­al con­duct­or. As a pub­lish­er of sac­red mu­sic, he was as­so­ci­at­ed with the Hall-Mack Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, which lat­er merged with the Ro­de­heav­er Com­pa­ny. Hall said once that the tune for “Does Je­sus Care?” was his most in­spired piece of mu­sic. He was a mem­ber of the 7th Street Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church in Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia.

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Music

1. Does Jesus Care?
2. Clifton
3. For God So Loved the World
4. He Is Mine
5. Mine, Still Mine
6. Oh Be Ready!