I have heard of a glorious land of song

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I have heard of a glorious land of song

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [I have heard of a glorious land of song]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 I have heard of a glorious land of song,
And towards it have turned my face;
O the joy I receive as I march along,
In the light of redeeming grace.

Refrain:
In the light of redeeming grace,
In the light of redeeming grace,
I will fear no foe, as I onward go,
In the light of redeeming grace.

2 I have turned from the lowlands of sin and strife,
To the mountains of joy and peace;
I am praising the love that has changed my life,
With a song that will never cease. [Refrain]

3 Sin can harm me no more, for the Lord is mine,
And is leading me by the hand;
He will guide and protect me by love divine,
Till I cross to the promised land. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Help: for the Sunday school, evangelistic and church services #105

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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 >

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