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Just One Way to the Gate

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There are many paths through this world of sin

Author: James Rowe (1920)
Tune: [There are many paths through this world of sin]
Published in 15 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 There are many paths through this world of sin,
But there’s only one I shall travel in;
’Tis the old Cross Road, or the way called “Straight”—
There is just one way to the pearly gate.

Refrain:
There is just one way to the pearly gate,
To the crown of life and the friends who wait;
’Tis the old Cross Road, or the way called “Straight”—
There is just one way to the pearly gate.

2 There are some who sneer at the old Cross Road,
At the pearly gate and the soul’s abode;
Yet I mind them not, but, with happy song
And assurance sweet, still I press along. [Refrain]

3 Others risk their souls on some new-made way,
Thinking they will come to the gate some day;
Oh, may they find out, ere their lives are done,
That the old Cross Road is the only one.

Timeless Truths

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: There are many paths through this world of sin
Title: Just One Way to the Gate
Author: James Rowe (1920)
Meter: 10.10.10.10 with refrain
Language: English
Refrain First Line: There is just one way to the pearly gate
Publication Date: 1920
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

[There are many paths through this world of sin]Highcharts.com
Frequency of use
[There are many paths through this world of sin]


Timeline

Appearance of this hymn in hymnals192019251930193519401945195019551960196519701975050100Percent of hymnalsHighcharts.com

Instances

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Timeless Truths #268

Include 14 pre-1979 instances
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