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Author: James M. Gray Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: O never look back to the world again Refrain First Line: It's the same old world you once did flee Lyrics: 1 O never look back to the world again When once you have turn’d away; Its sin is as real and its pleasure as vain Today as on yesterday. Chorus: It’s the same old world you once did flee, Never look back again! It’s just the same as it used to be, O never look back again! 2 Remember the pillar in yonder plain, And never such end invoke, The record of one who was looking again When Sodom went up in smoke. [Chorus] 3 How many set out for the promised land Whose bones in the desert slept, What blessings awaited when Jordan was spann’d, But they for old Egypt wept. [Chorus] 4 O if you have fastened your hand to plow, Then never look back again! Keep true to your furrow, and hold to your vow, That heaven you may attain. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [O never look back to the world again]

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[O never look back to the world again]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 13333 34555 16554 Used With Text: Never Look Back Again

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Never Look Back Again

Author: James M. Gray Hymnal: Sunday School and Revival #210 (1907) First Line: O never look back to the world again Refrain First Line: It's the same old world you once did flee Lyrics: 1 O never look back to the world again When once you have turn’d away; Its sin is as real and its pleasure as vain Today as on yesterday. Chorus: It’s the same old world you once did flee, Never look back again! It’s just the same as it used to be, O never look back again! 2 Remember the pillar in yonder plain, And never such end invoke, The record of one who was looking again When Sodom went up in smoke. [Chorus] 3 How many set out for the promised land Whose bones in the desert slept, What blessings awaited when Jordan was spann’d, But they for old Egypt wept. [Chorus] 4 O if you have fastened your hand to plow, Then never look back again! Keep true to your furrow, and hold to your vow, That heaven you may attain. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [O never look back to the world again]

Never Look Back Again

Author: James M. Gray Hymnal: Hymns for His Praise #143 (1906) First Line: O never look back to the world again Refrain First Line: It's the same old world you once did flee Languages: English Tune Title: [O never look back to the world again]

Never Look Back Again

Author: James M. Gray Hymnal: Hymns for His Praise #147 (1903) First Line: O never look back to the world again Refrain First Line: It's the same old world you once did flee Topics: Heaven Languages: English Tune Title: [O never look back to the world again]

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James M. Gray

1851 - 1935 Author of "Never Look Back Again" in Sunday School and Revival Born: May 11, 1851, New York City. Died: September 21, 1935, Passavant Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City. Gray accepted Christ at age 22. He was educated at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine (Doctor of Divinity), and the University of Des Moines, Iowa (Doctor of Laws). In 1879 he became Rector of the First Reformed Episcopal Church in Boston, Massachusetts, where he served 14 years. He then became dean (1904-25) and president (1925-34) of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, Illinois, and directed publication of four editions (1921-28) of the Voice of Thanksgiving, official hymnal of the Institute. A conservative theologian, Gray was one of seven editors of the popular Scofield Reference Bible. He was a fine scholar and excellent Bible teacher, but his interests went beyond mere academics. He promoted the Sunday School, and took an interest in civic affairs and patriotic causes. He backed efforts at social betterment, supported Prohibition, and wrote about 20 books --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[O never look back to the world again]" in Sunday School and Revival Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman