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Home Lights

Author: James Rowe Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: When the shadows of unrest are falling Refrain First Line: Shine on, ye home lights, burning so brightly

[When the shadows of unrest are falling]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thoro Harris Incipit: 12333 12216 14334 Used With Text: Home Lights

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Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Songs of Summerland #136 (1943) First Line: When the shadows of unrest are falling Refrain First Line: Shine on, ye home lights, burning so brightly Languages: English Tune Title: [When the shadows of unrest are falling]

Home Lights

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns No. 4 #22 (1907) First Line: When the shadows of unrest are falling Refrain First Line: Shine on, ye home lights Topics: Closing; Duets; Heaven Tune Title: [When the shadows of unrest are falling]

Home Lights

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined #365 (1907) First Line: When the shadows of unrest are falling Refrain First Line: Shine on, ye home lights Topics: Closing; Duets; Heaven Tune Title: [When the shadows of unrest are falling]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "Home Lights" in Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined 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)

Thoro Harris

1874 - 1955 Composer of "[When the shadows of unrest are falling]" in Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906) Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor) Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922) --www.hymntime.com/tch