[Hear the invitation sweeping over the land]

[Hear the invitation sweeping over the land]

Composer: W. H. Doane
Published in 2 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: W. H. Doane

An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Hear the invitation sweeping over the land]
Composer: W. H. Doane
Incipit: 55556 53132 12116
Copyright: Public Domain

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Songs of the Kingdom #112

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Royal Hymnal #102

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