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Display Title: Grace has lifted me First Line: I was a wayward child, was sinking in despair Author: James Rowe Date: 1957
Glory Bound, Our First 1957 Book #d39
Grace has lifted me
I was a wayward child, was sinking in despair
Author: James RoweTune: [I was a wayward child, was sinking in despair]
Published in 4 hymnals
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 >Instances
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Home Gospel Songs #d95
Display Title: Grace has lifted me First Line: I was a wayward child, was sinking in despair Author: James Rowe Date: 1925
Home Gospel Songs #d95
Praises #d37
Display Title: Grace has lifted me First Line: I was a wayward child, was sinking in despair Author: James Rowe Date: 1924
Praises #d37
Songs of the Cross #151
Display Title: Grace Has Lifted Me First Line: I was a wayward child, was sinking in despair Tune Title: [I was a wayward child, was sinking in despair] Author: James Rowe Date: 1924
Songs of the Cross #151
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