[There's a land afar, where the angels are]

[There's a land afar, where the angels are]

Composer: W. H. Doane
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: W. H. Doane

An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [There's a land afar, where the angels are]
Composer: W. H. Doane
Incipit: 34545 65434 54345
Copyright: Public Domain

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Celestial Songs #188

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Jubilant Voices for Sunday Schools and Devotional Meetings #18

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