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When the gates open wide and the saved go inside

Author: James Rowe Appears in 3 hymnals

[When the gates open wide and the saved go inside]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. M. Henson Tune Key: A Flat Major Used With Text: I Want to Be There

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Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Crowning Hymns No. 12 #41 (1931) First Line: When the gates open wide and the saved go inside Languages: English Tune Title: [When the gates open wide and the saved go inside]

When the gates open wide and the saved go inside

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Comfort and Consolation #104 (1940) Languages: English

I want to be there

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Sunday School and Revival Songs No.2 #d248 (1933) First Line: When the gates open wide

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "I Want to Be There" in Crowning Hymns No. 12 Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)