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Precious Love

Author: R. E. Winsett Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O, it was the love of God that found and brought me safe thus far Refrain First Line: O this love, wonderful love

[O, it was the love of God that found and brought me safe thus far]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: R. E. Winsett Incipit: 12333 23213 53165 Used With Text: Precious Love

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Author: R. E. W. Hymnal: Songs of the Kingdom #4 (1911) First Line: O, it was the love of God that found and brought me safe thus far Refrain First Line: O this love, wonderful love Languages: English Tune Title: [O, it was the love of God that found and brought me safe thus far]

Precious love

Author: R. E. Winsett Hymnal: Songs of Spiritual Power; Songs that Win #d114 (1936) First Line: O it was the love of God Refrain First Line: O this love, wonderful love

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R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Author of "Precious Love" 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