Swell It Out

Christ the Lord is saving all the world from loss

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [Christ the Lord is saving all the world from loss]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Christ the Lord is saving all the world from loss
Title: Swell It Out
Author: James Rowe
Refrain First Line: Swell it out, O swell it out
Publication Date: 1925
Copyright: This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.

Instances

Instances (1 - 1 of 1)
Page Scan

The Blessed Way #24

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us