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Are You Following the Savior?

Author: Eden Reeder Latta Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Are you following the Savior daily Refrain First Line: We are following the Savior daily

[Are you following the Saviour daily?]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. N. Lincoln Incipit: 33321 23565 11117 Used With Text: Are You Following the Saviour?

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Are You Following the Saviour Daily?

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Songs of Zion #174 (1899) Refrain First Line: We are following the Saviour daily Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you following the Saviour daily?]

Are You Following the Saviour?

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Crown of Beauty #192 (1902) First Line: Are you following the Saviour daily? Refrain First Line: We are following the Saviour daily Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you following the Saviour daily?]

We are following the Savior daily

Author: Eden Reade Latta Hymnal: Crowning Theme #d5 (1898) First Line: Are you following the Savior daily Languages: English

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E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Author of "Are You Following the Saviour?" in Crown of Beauty Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA. John Perry

H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Composer of "[Are you following the Saviour daily?]" in Crown of Beauty Horace Neely Lincoln, 1859-1948. Horace was the son of James Lincoln and Emaline King, and husband of Etta Lee Thurmand (married 1887). He moved with his family to Texas when he was seven years old. At age 10, he began attending a singing school conducted by James M. Jolley of Mississippi. In 1880, he taught his first singing class in his old neighborhood school house. Later that year, he attended his first normal music school, taught at Mountain Home (now Holland), Texas. Lincoln had other musical training under L. B. Shook (a former student of Philip Bliss) and John McPherson of Illinois. In 1898, he graduated from the Chicago National College of Music, and in 1906 took a post-graduate course under Horatio Palmer. Lincoln eventually became president of the Songland Music Company, and the World’s Normal Musical College. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime/tch)