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I'm Nearer My Home Today

Author: Rev. Geo. Gill Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: There are mansions in the skies Refrain First Line: Nearer my home Used With Tune: [There are mansions in the skies]

[There are mansions in the skies]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: George S. Weeks Used With Text: I'm Nearer My Home To-day

[There are mansions in the skies]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: H. P. Danks Incipit: 33433 22223 43213 Used With Text: I'm Nearer My Home Today

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Author: Rev. George Gill Hymnal: Calvary Songs #160 (1875) First Line: There are mansions in the skies Refrain First Line: Nearer my home Lyrics: 1 There are mansions in the skies, Thither my affections rise, I'm nearer my home today! To that bright and holy land, I with faith pursue my way, Led and kept by God's right hand, I'm nearer my home today. Refrain: Nearer my home, Nearer my home, Nearer my home today; Nearer my home, Nearer my home, I'm near my home today. 2 Now with joyous strain I sing! Death shall lose its power to sting, I'm nearer my home today! Fleeting pleasures wing their flight, Earthly joys all fade away, Now I deem my sorrows light, I'm nearer my home today. [Refrain] 3 To my Father's house I haste, Purer joys I there shall taste, I'm nearer my home today! There a welcome he will give, Then my tears he'll wipe away; In his love my soul shall live, I'm nearer my home today. [Refrain] 4 Where the ransomed rest at home, Where nor pain, nor sorrows come, I'm nearer my home today! Where the white-robed glorious throng, Spend the long eternal day, Praising Christ in endless song! I'm nearer my home today. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [There are mansions in the skies]

I'm Nearer My Home Today

Author: Rev. Geo. Gill Hymnal: International Praise #80 (1902) First Line: There are mansions in the skies Refrain First Line: Nearer my home Languages: English Tune Title: [There are mansions in the skies]

Nearer my home, nearer my home

Author: George Gill Hymnal: Calvary Songs for Sunday School & Families. Words ed. #d176 (1883) First Line: There are mansions in the skies Languages: English

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H. P. Danks

1834 - 1903 Composer of "[There are mansions in the skies]" in International Praise

George S. Weeks

Composer of "[There are mansions in the skies]" in Calvary Songs

George Gill

1820 - 1880 Author of "I'm Nearer My Home Today" Gill, George, son of William Gill, was born at Tiverton, Devonshire, Jan. 23, 1820, and was for some time a missionary in the South Sea Islands. His hymn, "Beautiful Zion, built above " (Heaven), was "written" the author says, "on the island of Mangaia, South Seas, April, 1850." It was printed in the Juvenile Missionary Magazine in 1852. His re-written form of Phoebe Cary’s “One Sweetly Solemn Thought” beginning “this sweetly solemn thought” is dated 1861 and also appeared in the Juvenile Missionary Magazine, Gill left the South Sea in 1860, and in 1861 became pastor of Wesgate Congregational Chapel, Burnley. He died Aug. 19, 1880. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)