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[A ransomed soul returns]

Appears in 9 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Incipit: 34567 13454 35556 Used With Text: Joy in Heaven

Joy in Heaven

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: A ransomed soul returns Refrain First Line: All the golden bells are ringing Used With Tune: [A ransomed soul returns]

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: There is joy, there is joy Refrain First Line: All the golden bells are ringing Lyrics: There is joy, there is joy, There is joy in heaven: 1 A ransomed soul returns, The path of sin forsaking, And while his sad heart mourns, The harps of God are waking. Chorus: All the golden bells are ringing, All the angel choirs are singing, All the loving angels say, "There is joy in heav'n to-day, There is joy, there is joy, joy, joy to-day." 2 A weeping sinner kneels, The chains of death are broken, And soon his glad heart feels The Saviour's welcome spoken. [Chorus] 3 No news of pain or care, The jasper sea o'er-reaching, But sweet is echoed there The contrite heart's beseeching. [Chorus] 4 O then to God return,-- Come back and be forgiven, And soon thy heart shall learn To know the joy of heaven. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [There is joy, there is joy]

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Joy in Heaven

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: Songs of the New Life #R103 (1883) First Line: A ransomed soul returns Refrain First Line: All the golden bells are ringing Languages: English Tune Title: [A ransomed soul returns]

Joy in Heaven

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: The Emory Hymnal No. 2 #37 (1891) First Line: A ransomed soul returns Refrain First Line: All the golden bells are ringing Languages: English Tune Title: [A ransomed soul returns]

Joy in Heaven

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: The Royal Fountain No. 3 #87[103] (1882) First Line: A ransomed soul returns Refrain First Line: All the golden bells are ringing Languages: English Tune Title: [A ransomed soul returns]

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William J. Kirkpatrick

1838 - 1921 Person Name: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Composer of "[A ransomed soul returns]" in The Emory Hymnal No. 2 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

Priscilla Jane Owens

1829 - 1907 Person Name: Priscilla J. Owens Author of "Joy in Heaven" in The Emory Hymnal No. 2 Owens, Priscilla Jane, was born July 21, 1829, of Scotch and Welsh descent, and is now (1906) resident at Baltimore, where she is engaged in public-school work. For 50 years Miss Owen has interested herself in Sunday-school work, and most of her hymns were written for children's services. Her hymn in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, "We have heard a joyful sound" (Missions), was written for a Sunday-school Mission Anniversary, and the words were adapted to the chorus "Vive le Roi" in the opera The Huguenots. [Rev. James Bonar, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix II (1907) ========================= Owens, Priscilla Jane. (July 21, 1829--December 5, 1907). Of Scottish and Welsh ancestry, she spent her entire life in Baltimore. She was a public school teacher there for 49 years. She was a member of the Union Square Methodist Church and took particular interest in its Sunday School. Her literary efforts, both in prose and poetry, appeared in such religious periodicals as the Methodist Protestant and the Christian Standard. --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives