They Are Gathering

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They are gathering, slowly gathering

Author: George F. Root
Tune: [They are gathering, slowly gathering] (Root)
Published in 6 hymnals

Author: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line:	They are gathering, slowly gathering
Title:	They Are Gathering
Author:	George F. Root
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	They have entered life eternal
Copyright:	Public Domain