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Angels Are Rejoicing Over Me

There is peace and there is gladness in my heart today

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [There is peace and there is gladness in my heart today]
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 There is peace and there is gladness in my heart today,
From the galling bonds of sin my soul is free;
For the Son of God has taken all my sins away,
And the angels are rejoicing over me.

Chorus:
Oh, the angels are rejoicing over me,
For the precious blood of Christ has made me free;
All my sins have been forgiven, there is joy in heav’n,
For the angels are rejoicing over me.

2 I had wandered far in darkness, seeking pleasures vain,
But one day I heard a tender, loving plea;
Now my soul is homeward going free from scar and stain,
And the angels are rejoicing over me. [Chorus]

3 I have fixed my heart on Jesus, resting in his love,
Well assured that he will keep me pure and free;
And I know that I shall see him on his throne above,
For the angels are rejoicing over me. [Chorus]


Source: Great Tabernacle Hymns #120

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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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Text Information

First Line: There is peace and there is gladness in my heart today
Title: Angels Are Rejoicing Over Me
Author: James Rowe
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O the angels are rejoicing over me
Copyright: Public Domain
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Great Tabernacle Hymns #120

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