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Jesus Passed This Way Before

Author: Johnson Oatman Appears in 10 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Joy to me this thought has given Refrain First Line: Though the clouds are heavy over me

[Joy to me this tho't has given]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. E. Winsett Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 11153 56555 11321 Used With Text: Jesus Passed This Way Before

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Jesus Passed This Way Before

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Church Hymnal #190 (1951) Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal First Line: Joy to me this tho't has given Refrain First Line: Tho' the clouds are heavy o'er me Lyrics: 1 Joy to me this tho't has given, (tho't has given), Jesus passed this way before, (way before); All the way from earth to heaven, (earth to heaven), Jesus passed this way before. (way before.) Refrain: Tho' the clouds are heavy o'er me, (heavy o'er me), And tho' dark the way before me; (way before me;) This can fill my soul with singing, (soul with singing,) Jesus passed this way before. (way before.) 2 Does the road seem rough and weary, (rough and weary)? Jesus passed this way before, (way before); Does the night seem dark and dreary, (dark and dreary)? Jesus passed this way before. (way before.) [Refrain] 3 Is my heart with sorrow breaking, (sorrow breaking)? Jesus passed this way before, (way before); When my breast with sobs is shaking, (sobs is shaking), Jesus passed this way before. (way before.) [Refrain] 4 I am on this Friend relying, (Friend relying), Jesus passed this way before, (way before); And I'll shout when I am dying, (I am dying), Jesus passed this way before. (way before.) [Refrain] Topics: Baptism Languages: English Tune Title: [Joy to me this tho't has given]

Jesus Passed This Way Before

Author: Eld. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Gems of Devotion #31 (1940) Hymnal Title: Gems of Devotion First Line: Joy to me this tho't has given Refrain First Line: Tho' the clouds are heavy o'er me Languages: English Tune Title: [Joy to me this tho't has given]

Jesus passed this way before

Author: Johnson Oatman Hymnal: Latter Rain Revival #d68 (1931) Hymnal Title: Latter Rain Revival First Line: Joy to me this thought has given Refrain First Line: Though the clouds are heavy o'er me Languages: English

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Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal Author of "Jesus Passed This Way Before" in Church Hymnal Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914

R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal Composer of "[Joy to me this tho't has given]" in Church Hymnal Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music. Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899. He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory. He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day). Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children. Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame. --www.wikipedia.org