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My Father's Land
Author: Eben E. Rexford Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When I get home to my Father's land Refrain First Line: It matters not if the way be long
My Father's Land
[When I get home to my Father's land]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Used With Text: My Father's Land
[When I get home to my Father's land]
[When I get home to my Father's land]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. S. Fearis Incipit: 13332 35432 17122 Used With Text: My Father's Land
[When I get home to my Father's land]
My Father's Land
Author: Martha Little Hymnal: Calvary's Praises #59 (1917) First Line: When I get home to my Father's land Refrain First Line: It matters not if the way be long Lyrics: 1 When I get home to my Father’s land
And come to His open door,
And feel the welcoming grasp of His hand
On that bright eternal shore,
And He whispers, “Child, I have watched for thee,”
Then, oh, then and there will be heav’n for me.
Refrain:
It matters not if the way be long,
Or the feet that follow Him bleed,
I know full well I cannot go wrong,
If I follow where Christ will lead.
2 I cannot see where the pathway lies
That leads to the hills afar;
I only know that we climb to the skies
Over ways where pitfalls are,
But I’m trusting all to the Guide and know
That the way leads home from the vales below. [Refrain]
3 But ere I go to my Father’s land,
I’ll taste of the joy to come;
And in the dawn feel the touch of the hand
That shall keep and lead me home;
Tho’ the face of Jesus I cannot see,
He is near, I know, and it comforts me. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [When I get home to my Father's land]
My Father's Land
My Father's Land
Author: Eben E. Rexford Hymnal: With Heart and Voice #138 (1905) First Line: When I get home to my Father's land Refrain First Line: It matters not if the way be long Languages: English Tune Title: [When I get home to my Father's land]
My Father's Land
Eben E. Rexford
1848 - 1916 Author of "My Father's Land" Rexford, Eben Eugene.M (Johnsburg, New York, July 16, 1848--October 16, 1916, Shiocton, Wisconsin). Horticulturalist and editor of a Wisconsin farm journal. Many of his verses were used to fill empty corners of the journal. He also wrote many books on gardening. Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisc.), Litt.D. Twenty-five years, organist at First Congregational Church, Shiocton.
See: Smith, Mary L.P. (1930). Eben E. Rexford; a biographical sketch. Menasha, Wis., George Banta Pub. Co.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives and Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company.
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Rexford, Eben Eugene , an American writer, born July 16, 1848, is the author of Nos. 199, 246, 263, 353, in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos), 1878, No. 5, and 456 in the Methodist Sunday School Hymnbook, 1879.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Rexford, E. E. , p. 1587, ii. Additional hymns by this author in common use include:—
1. He saw the wheat fields waiting. Harvest of the World.
2. O where are the reapers. Missions.
3. Rouse up to work that waits for us. Duty.
4. We are sailing o'er an ocean. Life's Vicissitudes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Eben E. Rexford
Chas. H. Gabriel
1856 - 1932 Composer of "[When I get home to my Father's land]" in Calvary's Praises Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree
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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
Chas. H. Gabriel
