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How Unspeakable Precious

Author: Katharyn Bacon Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: My earthly work is ending Refrain First Line: How precious my Saviour Used With Tune: [My earthly work is ending]

[My earthly work is ending]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: D. W. Crist Used With Text: How Unspeakable Precious

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Author: Katharyn Bacon Hymnal: Heavenly Echoes No. 2 #109 (1914) First Line: My earthly work is ending Refrain First Line: How precious my Saviour Languages: English Tune Title: [My earthly work is ending]

How unspeakably precious

Author: Katharyn Bacon Hymnal: Golden Grain #d67 (1907) First Line: My earthly work is ending Refrain First Line: How precious my Savior Languages: English

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Daniel Webster Crist

1857 - 1929 Person Name: D. W. Crist Composer of "[My earthly work is ending]" in Heavenly Echoes No. 2 Born: November 28, 1857, New Chambersburg, Ohio. Died: March 24, 1929, Alliance, Ohio. Buried: Moultrie Chapel Cemetery, Moultrie, Ohio. Son of Robert Crist and Mary Ruff Crist, Daniel graduated from Ohio Northern University in 1882, and taught school in Columbiana and Stark County, Ohio, for 14 years. He became superintendent of the Osnaburg grade school in 1880, and for three years was superintendent at New Franklin. In 1901, he was elected to the Ohio state legislature, and became a state senator in 1905. Crist was composing as early as 1888, and at least through 1910, when he scored the FLOWER GIRL WALTZ. He worked for 30 years as a successful music publisher, starting in Moultrie, Ohio, where he also taught, farmed, and in New Alexander, served as a church music director and Sunday school superintendent. In 1915, he moved to Alliance, Ohio (where he became president of the Peoples Bank of Alliance). His works include: The Evergreen Waltz Joy and Praise for Sunday Schools, with R. A. Glenn (Cincinnati, Ohio: H. L. Benham & Company, 1886) Gospel Gleanings, 1886 Victory of Song (Moultrie, Ohio: D. W. Crist, 1892) --www.hymntime.com/tch

Katharyn Bacon

1884 - 1944 Author of "How Unspeakable Precious" in Heavenly Echoes No. 2 Katharyn Bacon was born in 1884 and lived in the hills of Tennessee. She liked books, flowers, garden and being close to nature. She was most likely married to George W. Bacon since a lot of her hymns appear in hymnals he edited. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)