Tillit Sidney Teddlie

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Tillit Sidney Teddlie (1885–1987) was a singing school teacher, composer, publisher, and minister of the Church of Christ.

Teddlie was born June 3, 1885 at Swan, Texas (Smith County), the son of Theodore and Sarah Ann (Porter) Teddlie. In 1903 he was baptized into the Church of Christ, and also taught his first singing school, which lasted for two weeks. He composed his first song in 1906.

Tillit S. Teddlie married Edna Webb. They had one son, Pete Teddlie.

Teddlie died August 17, 1987 in Gunter, Texas. He was 102 years old. He is buried in the Forest Park Cemetery at Greenville, Texas.

During his lifetime, Teddlie taught singing schools for 61 years, composed 130 songs, published 14 song books, and served as a full-time minister, including the Johnson Street Church of Christ (1945–1951) and Central Church of Christ in Greenville, Texas, and Churches of Christ in Ennis, Sulphur Springs, Lone Oak and Quinlan.

[edit] Titles of some of Teddlie's songs

A Joyful Song
Be Not Anxious
Cast All Your Burdens On The Lord
Don't Wait Too Long
God Sent His Own Son
Hear Me When I Call
Heaven Holds All To Me
I Remember Jesus
In Heaven They're Singing
In The Service Of My King
May This My Glory Be
O God Of Infinite Mercy
O The Depths And The Riches
Oft We Come Together, "True Worship"
Round the Hills in Galilee
Safe In The Harbor
Singing Redemption's Song
Songs Of Salvation
The Master's Touch
Thou Wilt Keep Him
Time Enough Yet
We Shall Meet Someday
What Will Your Answer Be?
When We Meet In Sweet Communion, "The Lord's Supper"
Worthy Art Thou
You Can Lead Someone To Jesus

[edit] Heaven Holds All to Me

Teddlie was a member of and ministered in the churches of Christ, but many of his songs reached popular circulation among Christians of other denominations, especially through the Stamps-Baxter Music Company. Two of his best known are "What Will Your Answer Be?" (1935) and "Heaven Holds All to Me" (1932).

"Earth holds no treasures

But perish with using,

However precious they be;

Yet there's a country

To which I am going:

Heaven holds all to me."