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A Thousand Years

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Be of good cheer, ye [you] friends of Jesus

Author: Love H. Jameson
Tune: [Lift up your hearts in exultation] (Work)
Published in 11 hymnals

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Author: Love H. Jameson

Born: April 17, 1811, Jefferson County, Indiana. Died: April 12, 1892, Indianapolis, Indiana. Buried: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana. Love Humphreys Jameson was born in Jefferson County in what was then the Territory of Indiana on May 17, 1811, the son of Thomas Jameson. Thomas had moved from Virginia to Kentucky around 1800 and later to the Indiana Territory in 1810 or early 1811. Thomas’s parents were members of the Calvinistic Kirk of Scotland and his wife’s parents held the views of the Church of England, but the family became Christians in 1816 with Love’s father and mother being baptized by John McClung, a young associate of Barton Warren Stone. Love, whose education was attended with all the difficulties ass… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	Be of good cheer, ye [you] friends of Jesus
Title:	A Thousand Years
Author:	Love H. Jameson
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Tune

[Lift up your hearts in exultation] (Work)

All tunes published with 'A Thousand Years'^ top

Timeline

Page Scans

Popular Hymns Number 2: for the work and worship of the church in public worship, prayer-meetings, revivals, conventions, Sunday-schools, young people's meetings, etc., etc. (1901), p.173

Instances

Instances (1 - 11 of 11)

New Christian Hymn and Tune Book #696

New Christian Hymn and Tune Book #696

Popular Hymns Number 2 #211

Popular Hymns, revised #176

Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #d28

Sacred Melodies (Revised) #d21

Songs of Saving Power #d21

Songs of the Blessed Hope #d17

The Centennial Hymnal #d36

The Christian hymnal #748

Trinity Songs of Faith, Hope and Love #d11

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