The prodigal son

Back to my Father and home

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm
Tune: [Back to my Father and home]
Published in 3 hymnals

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Representative Text

Back to my Father and home,
Back to my Father and home,
I will arise and go
Back to my Father and home.

Source: Tabernacle Hymns: Number Three #343

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm

Thomas O. Chisholm was born in Franklin, Kentucky in 1866. His boyhood was spent on a farm and in teaching district schools. He spent five years as editor of the local paper at Franklin. He was converted to Christianity at the age of 26 and soon after was business manager and office editor of the "Pentecostal Herald" of Louisville, Ky. In 1903 he entered the ministry of the M. E. Church South. His aim in writing was to incorporate as much as Scripture as possible and to avoid flippant or sentimental themes. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)… Go to person page >

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First Line: Back to my Father and home
Title: The prodigal son
Author: Thomas O. Chisholm

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Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism #259

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Tabernacle Hymns #343

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The Salvation Army Songs and Music #97

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