[Friends all around us are trying to find]

[Friends all around us are trying to find]

Composer: Harry Dixon Loes
Published in 26 hymnals


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Composer: Harry Dixon Loes

Pseudonyms: Deal Bartells Born Harold Loes, the American gospel song writer took the middle name Dixon in honour of A. C. Dixon, the pastor of Moody Church at the time. Harry Dixon Loes studied at Moody Bible Institute, and after extensive training in music he served a number of churches with a ministry of music. From 1939 until his retirement he was a member of the music faculty of Moody Bible Institute. He wrote the lyrics for 1,500 gospel songs, and composed 3,000 tunes. One day in 1915, Paul Rader preached a sermon in Moody Church, in Chicago. His theme was, “All that I want is in Jesus.” In the congregation was young Harry Dixon Loes, then a senior at Moody Bible Institute, where he would eventually teach. Inspired… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Friends all around us are trying to find]
Composer: Harry Dixon Loes
Incipit: 56712 11765 57123
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #288
Text: All Things in Jesus
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Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)
TextPage Scan

Hymns of Faith #185

Audio

Small Church Music #7436

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #288

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Worship and Service Hymnal #290

Include 22 pre-1979 instances
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