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Under the Banner of Jesus

Author: Eden Reeder Latta Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Come and enroll in your childhood and youth Refrain First Line: Come and enroll!

[Come and enroll in your childhood and youth]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: L. H. Wilemon Incipit: 33215 56116 53135 Used With Text: Under the Banner of Jesus

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Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Singing for Joy #64 (1902) First Line: Come and enroll in your childhood and youth Refrain First Line: Come and enroll! Languages: English Tune Title: [Come and enroll in your childhood and youth]

Come and enroll

Author: Eden Reade Latta Hymnal: Association Songs No.1 #d26 (1902) First Line: Come and enroll in your childhood Refrain First Line: Risk not your soul Languages: English

Under the banner of Jesus

Author: Eden Reade Latta Hymnal: Revival and Prohibition Songs #d19 (1903) First Line: Come and enroll in your childhood Refrain First Line: Come and enroll

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E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Person Name: Eden Reeder Latta Author of "Under the Banner of Jesus" Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA. John Perry