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Author: James Rowe Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined First Line: Sinner, are you lone and sad? Refrain First Line: Just open your heart Topics: Decision Day; Invitation Used With Tune: [Sinner, are you lone and sad?]

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[Sinner, are you lone and sad?]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thoro Harris Hymnal Title: Pentecostal Hymns No. 4 Used With Text: Open Your Heart to Jesus

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Open Your Heart to Jesus

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns No. 4 #82 (1907) Hymnal Title: Pentecostal Hymns No. 4 First Line: Sinner, are you lone and sad? Refrain First Line: Just open your heart Topics: Decision Day; Invitation Tune Title: [Sinner, are you lone and sad?]

Open Your Heart to Jesus

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined #425 (1907) Hymnal Title: Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined First Line: Sinner, are you lone and sad? Refrain First Line: Just open your heart Topics: Decision Day; Invitation Tune Title: [Sinner, are you lone and sad?]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "Open your heart to Jesus" Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Thoro Harris

1874 - 1955 Hymnal Title: Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined Composer of "[Sinner, are you lone and sad?]" in Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906) Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor) Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922) --www.hymntime.com/tch