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[There's a place above all others]

Appears in 13 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Tenney Incipit: 33321 23243 56533 Used With Text: In the Shadow of the Cross

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In the Shadow of the Cross

Author: E. R. Latta Appears in 14 hymnals First Line: There's a place above all others Lyrics: 1. There's a place above all others, Where my spirit loves to be! 'Tis within the Sacred shadow Of the cross of Calvary! Chorus: In the shadow of the cross, In the shadow of the cross, There my spirit loves to be, In the shadow of the cross. 2. On the cross my Saviour suffered, That He might atone for me! And I love the blessed shadow Of the cross of Calvary! [Chorus] 3. When my heart is full of trouble, Then I love on bended knee To approach Him in the shadow Of the cross of Calvary! [Chorus] 4. Blessed Saviour, Thou wilt hear me, When I make my earnest plea, If I kneel within the shadow Of the cross of Calvary! [Chorus] Used With Tune: [There's a place above all others]

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In the Shadow of the Cross

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: The Gospel Awakening #172 (1888) First Line: There's a place above all others Lyrics: 1. There's a place above all others, Where my spirit loves to be! 'Tis within the Sacred shadow Of the cross of Calvary! Chorus: In the shadow of the cross, In the shadow of the cross, There my spirit loves to be, In the shadow of the cross. 2. On the cross my Saviour suffered, That He might atone for me! And I love the blessed shadow Of the cross of Calvary! [Chorus] 3. When my heart is full of trouble, Then I love on bended knee To approach Him in the shadow Of the cross of Calvary! [Chorus] 4. Blessed Saviour, Thou wilt hear me, When I make my earnest plea, If I kneel within the shadow Of the cross of Calvary! [Chorus] Tune Title: [There's a place above all others]
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In the Shadow of the Cross

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Songs of the Pentecost for the Forward Gospel Movement #3 (1894) First Line: There's a place above all others Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a place above all others]
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In the Shadow of the Cross

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Words of Life #23 (1889) First Line: There's a place above all others Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a place above all others]

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E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Author of "In the Shadow of the Cross" in The Gospel Awakening Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA. John Perry

J. H. Tenney

1840 - 1918 Composer of "[There's a place above all others]" in Songs of the Pentecost for the Forward Gospel Movement John Harrison Tenney, 1840-1918 Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1840, Row­ley, Mass­a­chu­setts. Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of "Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too," Ten­ney was named af­ter Amer­i­can pre­si­dent Will­iam Hen­ry Har­ri­son. A dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mass­a­chu­setts, he ed­it­ed or was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of over 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more. His works in­clude: Amer­i­can Male Choir Temperance Jew­els, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1879) Bells of Vic­to­ry, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Oliv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1888) Gems of Gos­pel Song Golden Sun­beams Sharon’s Dewy Rose Songs of Faith Shining Light Songs of Joy Sparkling and Bright Spiritual Songs, Nos. 1 and 2 Sweet Fields of Eden The Bea­con Light The Sing­ing School Ban­ner The An­them Of­fer­ing The Amer­i­can An­them Book The Crown of Praise Sources-- Hall, pp. 219-22 Music-- Asilomar Bogotá Beyond the Swell­ing Flood Cancún Come to Je­sus Ever Will I Pray Hallowed Hour of Pray­er Jesus Is Pass­ing This Way Jubilate! My An­chor Is Hold­ing Nothing Be­tween Onward Christ­ian Sol­diers Sabbath Bell San Fran­cis­co We’ll Ne­ver Say Good­bye Where Will You Spend Eter­ni­ty? --www.hymntime.com/tch