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You Never Mentioned Him to Me

When in that better land before the bar we stand

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [When in that better land before the bar we stand]
Published in 21 hymnals

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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 >

Text Information

First Line: When in that better land before the bar we stand
Title: You Never Mentioned Him to Me
Author: James Rowe
Language: English
Refrain First Line: You never mentioned Him to me
Publication Date: 1929
Copyright: Owned by J. W. Gaines, 1929

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)

Church Gospel Songs and Hymns #561

Clarion Call #28

Page Scan

Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #799

Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #792

Sacred Selections for the Church #92

Include 16 pre-1979 instances
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