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[You must open the door]

Appears in 7 hymnals Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 31712 15323 43565 Used With Text: You Must Open the Door

You Must Open the Door

Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Song of Consecration Used With Tune: [You must open the door]

Abre tu corazón

Author: D. H. Baasch Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: [Abre tu corazón]

Estribillo Num. 3

Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Debes la puerta abrir Used With Tune: [Debes la puerta abrir]

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

You Must Open the Door

Author: Ina Duley Ogden Hymnal: Choice Light and Life Songs #161 (1950) Languages: English Tune Title: [You must open the door]

You Must Open the Door

Hymnal: Gospel Melodies and Evangelistic Hymns #51 (1944) Topics: Song of Consecration Languages: English Tune Title: [You must open the door]

You Must Open the Door

Hymnal: Happy Songs for Boys and Girls #130 (1952) Languages: English Tune Title: [You must open the door]

1872 - 1964 Person Name: Ina Duley Ogden Author of "You Must Open the Door" in Choice Light and Life Songs Ogdon, Ina Duley. (Rossville, Illinois, 1872--May 18, 1964, Toledo, Ohio). Disciples of Christ. Granddaughter of a Methodist minister, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Duley. Married James Ogdon. She wrote: "My father went with my mother to her church after his marriage to her, so I was brought up in the church of the Disciples of Christ." She wrote over three thousand hymns, anthems, cantatas, and miscellaneous verse. Her hymns include "Brighten the corner where you are," 1912; "Carry your cross with a smile," 1916; "My Lord abides;" "When you know Jesus too;" "Tell Jesus;" "Lighten the burden for someone;" "I have been saved," Her first hymn was "Open wide the window." Composer Charles Gabriel wrote, "Loved by thousands who have sung her hymns, she shrinks from celebrity in the knowledge that her songs are God-given and that without Him she could do nothing." See: Beattie, David J. (1931). The Romance of Sacred Song. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, Ltd. The Presbyterian Survey November 1952. The Toledo Blade, 19 May 1964. --Ernest K. Emurian, DNAH Archives Photo from Joseph Gardner collection from website "Ina Duly Ogdon Home" by Melissa Archibald (http://www.freewebs.com/marchi/inaphotosarticles.htm)

Homer A. Rodeheaver

1880 - 1955 Composer of "[You must open the door]" in Choice Light and Life Songs Homer Rodeheaver (1880-1955) was a world renowned evangelist and the music director of Billy Sunday's Evangelistic Campaigns. He was born in Union Furnace, OH. In the Spanish American War he served as trombonist. In 1918 he worked in France with the YMCA, He was President of Rodeheaver, Hall-Mack Co. and founder of Rodeheaver Boys' Ranch in Palatka, FL. see Osborne p.328 Mary Louise VanDyke