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I Am Coming, Dear Savior

After years vainly spent, all my sins I repent

Author: Horace N. Lincoln
Tune: [After years vainly spent, all my sins I repent]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Horace N. Lincoln

Horace Neely Lincoln, 1859-1948. Horace was the son of James Lin­coln and Em­a­line King, and hus­band of Et­ta Lee Thur­mand (mar­ried 1887). He moved with his fa­mi­ly to Tex­as when he was se­ven years old. At age 10, he be­gan at­tend­ing a sing­ing school con­duct­ed by James M. Jol­ley of Mis­sis­sip­pi. In 1880, he taught his first sing­ing class in his old neigh­bor­hood school house. Lat­er that year, he at­tend­ed his first nor­mal mu­sic school, taught at Moun­tain Home (now Hol­land), Tex­as. Lincoln had oth­er mu­sic­al train­ing under L. B. Shook (a for­mer stu­dent of Phil­ip Bliss) and John Mc­Pher­son of Il­li­nois. In 1898, he grad­u­at­ed from the Chi­ca­go Na­tion­a… Go to person page >

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First Line: After years vainly spent, all my sins I repent
Title: I Am Coming, Dear Savior
Author: Horace N. Lincoln
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I am coming, dear Savior, to Thee
Copyright: Public Domain

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Voices for Jesus #113

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