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[Hear our happy voices speeding o'er the plains]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Adam Geibel Incipit: 56543 32347 74543 Used With Text: Christ Forever!

Christ Forever!

Author: James Rowe Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Hear our happy voices speeding o'er the plains Used With Tune: [Hear our happy voices speeding o'er the plains]

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Author: James Rowe Hymnal: The Voice of Praise No. 3 #32 (1912) First Line: Hear our happy voices spreading o'er the plains Languages: English Tune Title: [Hear our happy voices spreading o'er the plains]

Christ Forever!

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Songs of Service #32 (1910) First Line: Hear our happy voices speeding o'er the plains Languages: English Tune Title: [Hear our happy voices speeding o'er the plains]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "Christ Forever!" in The Voice of Praise No. 3 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)

Adam Geibel

1855 - 1933 Composer of "[Hear our happy voices spreading o'er the plains]" in The Voice of Praise No. 3 Born: September 15, 1855, Neuenheim, Germany. Died: August 3, 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Though blinded by an eye infection at age eight, Geibel was a successful composer, conductor, and organist. Emigrating from Germany probably around 1864, he studied at the Philadelphia Institute for the Blind, and wrote a number of Gospel songs, anthems, cantatas, etc. He founded the Adam Geibel Music Company, later evolved into the Hall-Mack Company, and later merged to become the Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company. He was well known for secular songs like "Kentucky Babe" and "Sleep, Sleep, Sleep." In 1885, Geibel organized the J. B. Stetson Mission. He conducted the Stetson Chorus of Philadelphia, and from 1884-1901, was a music instructor at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. His works include: Evening Bells, 1874 Saving Grace, with Alonzo Stone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Stone & Bechter, Publishers, 1898) Consecrated Hymns, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1902) Uplifted Voices, co-editor with R. Frank Lehman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1901) World-Wide Hosannas, with R. Frank Lehman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1904) Hymns of the Kingdom, co-editor with R. Frank Lehman et al. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1905) --www.hymntime.com/tch/