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Only a Little While
Author: Ernest G. W. Wesley Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Only a little while, And then, the long, long day will end
Only a Little While
[Only a little while]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. Towner Incipit: 54565 33544 34535 Used With Text: Only a Little While
[Only a little while]
Only a little while, and then, the long, long day
Author: Ernest G. W. Wesley Hymnal: Popular Selections from Hymns New and Old #d63 (1891)
Only a little while, and then, the long, long day
Only a Little While
Author: Rev. Ernest Wesley Hymnal: Hymns New and Old, Revised #149 (1891) Languages: English Tune Title: [Only a little while]
Only a Little While
D. B. Towner
1850 - 1919 Composer of "[Only a little while]" in Hymns New and Old, Revised Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden
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Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs.
--Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives
D. B. Towner
Ernest G. Wellesley-Wesley
Person Name: Ernest G. W. Wesley Author of "Only a Little While" Ernest G. W. Wesley was born and educated in England. At the age of seventeen he started writing for local newspapers. When he was twenty-two he worked as special correspondent for The New York Times in Buenos Aries. While he was in Buenos Aries he became licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He came to the United States in the early 1870's and continued writing and contributing to religious and secular papers. He wrote between five and six hundred hymns and nearly two thousand articles on religious and theological topics.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Ernest G. Wellesley-Wesley
