When the King Shall Come

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O the weary night is waning, And the clouds are rolling by (Johnston)

Author: Julia H. Johnston (1916)
Tune: [O the weary night is waning] (Wolslagel)
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. 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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First Line:	O the weary night is waning, And the clouds are rolling by (Johnston)
Title:	When the King Shall Come
Author:	Julia H. Johnston (1916)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	He will come, He will come
Copyright:	Public Domain