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[Why stand ye here idle, with so much to do?]
Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. E. Dortch Incipit: 55345 15616 55112
[Why stand ye here idle, with so much to do?]
Why Stand Ye Here Idle?
Author: E. R. Latta Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: Why stand ye here idle, with so much to do? Refrain First Line: Do much or do little, still toil with your might! Used With Tune: [Why stand ye here idle, with so much to do?]
Why Stand Ye Here Idle?
Why Stand Ye Here Idle?
Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Dortch's Gospel Voices #302 (1902) First Line: Why stand ye here idle, with so much to do? Refrain First Line: Do much or do little Languages: English Tune Title: [Why stand ye here idle, with so much to do?]
Why Stand Ye Here Idle?
Why Stand Ye Here Idle?
Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Grace and Glory #26 (1882) First Line: Why stand ye here idle, with so much to do? Refrain First Line: Do much or do little, still toil with a might! Languages: English Tune Title: [Why stand ye here idle, with so much to do?]
Why Stand Ye Here Idle?
Why Stand Ye Here Idle?
Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Spirit and Life #40 (1895) First Line: Why stand ye here idle, with so much to do? Refrain First Line: Do much or do little, still toil with your might! Languages: English Tune Title: [Why stand ye here idle, with so much to do?]
Why Stand Ye Here Idle?
E. R. Latta
1839 - 1915 Author of "Why Stand Ye Here Idle?" in Dortch's Gospel Voices 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.
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E. R. Latta
D. E. Dortch
1851 - 1928 Composer of "[Why stand ye here idle, with so much to do?]" in Dortch's Gospel Voices Born: March 5, 1851, Theta, Tennessee.
Died: November 9/11, 1928, Tennessee.
Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Columbia, Tennessee.
Dortch was teaching music in Maury, Tennessee, in 1880, and was working as an evangelist by 1886. His works include:
Tidings of Joy (Columbia, Tennessee: 1878)
National Tidings of Joy (Nashville, Tennessee: National Baptist Convention of America, 1878)
Gospel Melodies, with William Dale & Charles Pollock (Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, 1890)
Spirit and Life, with Edmund Lorenz (Dayton, Ohio: Christian Publishing Association, 1893)
Choice Songs (Nashville, Tennessee: National Baptist Convention of America, 1894)
Gospel Voices (Nashville, Tennessee: South-Western Publishing House, 1895)
Gospel Voices No. 3 (Columbia, Tennessee: David E. Dortch, 1902)
Hymns of Victory, Parts 1 and 2 (Columbia, Tennessee: Dortch Publishing Company, 1905)
Happy Greetings to All (Charlotte, North Carolina: Dortch Publishing Company, 1916)
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