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Waiting Up There

Author: B. F. Brewington Appears in 9 hymnals First Line: O soon will our Savior be calling us homeward Refrain First Line: I will be waiting, waiting up There

[O, soon will our Savior be calling us homeward]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. F. Brewington Incipit: 35553 21333 21612 Used With Text: Waiting Up There

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Author: Brewington; Graham Hymnal: Church Hymnal #206 (1951) First Line: O, soon will our Savior be calling us homeward Refrain First Line: I will be waiting, waiting up there Languages: English Tune Title: [O, soon will our Savior be calling us homeward]

It Will Be Glory Up There

Author: Graham; Brewington; Winsett Hymnal: The Baptist Standard Hymnal #619 (1924) First Line: O soon will our Savior be calling us homeward Refrain First Line: Then 'twill be glofy Topics: Time and Eternity Heaven Languages: English Tune Title: [O soon will our Savior be calling us homeward]

Waiting Up There

Author: Graham; Brewington Hymnal: Beautiful Melodies #38 (1942) First Line: Oh, soon will our Savior be calling us homeward Refrain First Line: I will be waiting, waiting up There Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, soon will our Savior be calling us homeward]

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R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Person Name: Winsett Author of "It Will Be Glory Up There" in The Baptist Standard 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

Frank M. Graham

1859 - 1931 Person Name: Graham Author of "It Will Be Glory Up There" in The Baptist Standard Hymnal Born: March 1, 1859, Birmingham, Illinois. Died: August 25, 1931, Greensboro, Georgia. Buried: Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Greensboro, Georgia. Graham was an ordained minister in the Wesleyan (Methodist) Church and served as District Superintendent in northern Georgia from around 1895 to about 1915. He was one of the founders of what is now Southern Wesleyan University at Central, South Carolina. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)