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When He Comes

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: When He comes, when He comes Used With Tune: [When He comes, when He comes] Text Sources: A House of Praise (Hope Publishing Company,, 2003)

When He comes

Author: Sue Read Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: When He comes, we'll see just a child Refrain First Line: And on that day there will be laughter

Till the Day Dawns

Author: Robert Matthews Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: When He comes again in glory Refrain First Line: Till the day dawns and the shadows flee away, flee away

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[When He comes, when He comes]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: James D. Thornton Tune Key: E Flat Major Used With Text: When He Comes

DAVID

Meter: 3.3.11.8.8.11 with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Wayne Hooper (1920-2007) Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 34532 15511 12356 Used With Text: When He Comes

[When He comes, we'll see just a child]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Sue Read; Andy Silver; Christopher Norton Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 15222 34351 52777 Used With Text: When He comes

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When He Comes

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Sing Joyfully #571 (1989) First Line: When He comes, when He comes Lyrics: 1 When He comes, when He comes, We shall see the Lord in glory when He comes! As I read the gospel story we shall see the Lord in glory, We shall see the Lord in glory when He comes! With the Alleluias ringing to the sky, With the Alleluias ringing to the sky! As I read the gospel story we shall see the Lord in glory With the Alleluias ringing to the sky! 2 When He comes, when He comes, We shall heart the trumpet sounded when He comes! We shall hear the trumpet sounded, see the Lord by saints surrounded, We shall heart the trumpet sounded when He comes! With the Alleluias ringing to the sky, With the Alleluias ringing to the sky! We shall hear the trumpet sounded, see the Lord by saints surrounded, With the Alleluias ringing to the sky! 3 When He comes, when He comes, We shall all rise up tomeet Him when He comes! When He calls His own to greet Him we shall all rise up to meet Him, We shall all rise up to eet Him when He comes! With the Alleluias ringing to the sky, With the Alleluias ringing to the sky! When He calls His own to greet Him we shall all rise up to meet Him With the Alleluias ringing to the sky. Topics: Jesus Christ Second Coming Languages: English Tune Title: [When He comes, when He comes]
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When He Comes

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926- ) Hymnal: Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #220 (1985) Meter: 3.3.11.8.8.11 with refrain Refrain First Line: With the alleluias ringing to the sky (to the sky) Lyrics: 1 When He comes, When He comes, We shall see the Lord in glory when He comes! As I read the gospel story, We shall see the Lord in glory, We shall see the Lord in glory when He comes! Refrain: With the alleluias ringing to the sky, With the alleluias ringing to the sky! As I read the gospel in glory, We shall see the Lord in glory, With the alleluias ringing in the sky! 2 When He comes, When He comes, We shall hear the trumpet sounded when He comes! We shall hear the trumpet sounded, See the Lord by saints surrounded, We shall hear the trumpet sounded when He comes! [Refrain] 3 When He comes, When He comes, We shall all rise up to meet Him when He comes! We shall all rise up to meet Him, When He calls His own to greet Him We shall all rise up to meet Him when He comes! [Refrain] Topics: Jesus Christ Second Advent Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 Tune Title: DAVID

When He Comes

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Scripture Song Database #3982 (2008) First Line: [When He Comes] Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Languages: English

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Author of "When He Comes" in Scripture Song Database Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church posi­tions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Wayne Hooper

1920 - 2007 Person Name: Wayne Hooper (1920-2007) Composer of "DAVID" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal Born: July 4, 1920, Little Rock, Arkansas. Died: February 28, 2007, at his home in Thousand Oaks, California. Hooper sang baritone with the King’s Quartet group for 18 years, and arranged and composed music for the group for 33 years. He taught music at the Portland (Oregon) Academy and Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska; served as musical director of the Voice of Prophecy broadcast; directed development and marketing for Hosanna House; did arranging and orchestration for Chapel Records; was musical co-editor of the 1985 Seventh-day Adventist hymnal; and co-authored the Companion to the SDA Hymnal. Andrews and La Sierra Universities awarded honorary doctor of music degrees to him. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

William J. Kirkpatrick

1838 - 1921 Person Name: William James Kirkpatrick Composer of "[I shall see Him when He comes in all His glo­ry]" in The Cyber Hymnal William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia. Bert Polman