See Them Rise!

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Soon our Lord from that far country will return to claim His own

Author: Thoro Harris
Tune: [Soon our Lord from that "far country" will return to claim His own]
Published in 5 hymnals

Author: Thoro Harris

Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illi… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Soon our Lord from that far country will return to claim His own
Title:	See Them Rise!
Author:	Thoro Harris
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Then from ocean to ocean will the old tombs burst
Publication Date:	1916
Copyright:	Public Domain