Ever Gentle, Ever Sweet

His love is like a rollin' river, a clear and cool retreat

Author: Steve Adams
Tune: [His love is like a rollin' river, a clear and cool retreat]
Published in 2 hymnals

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Author: Steve Adams

Stephen Robert Adams USA 1943-present. Born at Woonsocket, RI, he studied music at age seven, taking lessons from a pastor’s wife. At Andover Academy, Andover, MA, he continued music studies. In 1960 he became church organist where his father was a Nazarene pastor. Steve and brother, Nate, were singing on network radio before they were school age. By age 13, he felt God’s call to become a Christian songwriter. The family moved to IN after 1960, and he, again, was church organist. He studied Greek philosophy and English literature at Indiana U, Bloomington, IN. He worked with musician, Doug Oldham, in 1973. By 1974 he had settled in Urbana, OH, and was organist/choirmaster of a church in Xenia, OH. He survived a devastating tornado the… Go to person page >

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First Line: His love is like a rollin' river, a clear and cool retreat
Title: Ever Gentle, Ever Sweet
Author: Steve Adams
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Ever gentle ever sweet
Publication Date: 1971
Copyright: © Copyright 1971 by Dimension Music

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Sing 'N' Praise Hymnal Vol. 2 #28

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