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The Key To Paradise

Author: A. S. M. Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I've found the key to Paradise Used With Tune: [I've found the key to Paradise]

[I've found the key to Paradise]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Aimee Semple McPherson Incipit: 53341 33252 Used With Text: The Key to Paradise

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The Key to Paradise

Author: A. S. M. Hymnal: Foursquare Hymnal #156 (1957) First Line: I've found the key to Paradise Languages: English Tune Title: [I've found the key to Paradise]

Author: A. S. M. Hymnal: Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism #283 (1936) First Line: I've found the key to Paradise Languages: English Tune Title: [I've found the key to Paradise]

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Aimee Semple McPherson

1890 - 1944 Author of "The Key to Paradise" McPherson, Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy Semple. (Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, October 9, 1890--September 26, 1944, Oakland, California). Foursquare. With no formal education beyond high school this remarkable and controversial woman founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel denomination. Pentacostalist missionary to China, 1917; itinerant Pentacostalist preacher in U.S. 1918-1923; pastor of Angelus Temple (Foursquare), Los Angeles, Calif. 1923-1944. Author of books on the Foursquare Church and composer of five oratorios. Evangelistic zeal is evident in her many published hymns. Full length biographical studies: Thomas, Lately. (1970). Storming heaven : the lives and turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple McPherson. New York: William Morrow & Co. McPherson, Aimee Semple. (1973). The Story of My Life. Waco, Tex.: Word Books. --Terry W. York, DNAH Archives Letter to the editor from daughter Roberta Semple Salter describes the drive from New York to Los Angeles in 1918. (Smithsonian, November 1980). DNAH Archives