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Fling Wide the Pearly Gates
Author: A. S. M. Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Close to its Sunset Hour Used With Tune: [Close to its Sunset Hour]
Fling Wide the Pearly Gates
[Close to its Sunset Hour]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Aimee Semple McPherson Incipit: 32342 54334 25 Used With Text: Fling Wide the Pearly Gates
[Close to its Sunset Hour]
Fling Wide the Pearly Gates
Author: A. S. M. Hymnal: Foursquare Hymnal #168 (1957) First Line: Close to its Sunset Hour Languages: English Tune Title: [Close to its Sunset Hour]
Fling Wide the Pearly Gates
Fling Wide The Pearly Gates
Author: A. S. M. Hymnal: Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism #221 (1936) First Line: Close to its Sunset Hour Languages: English Tune Title: [Close to its Sunset Hour]
Fling Wide The Pearly Gates
Fling Wide the Pearly Gates
Author: A. S. M. Hymnal: Living Way Hymnal #522 (1978) First Line: Close to its Sunset Hour Languages: English Tune Title: [Close to its Sunset Hour]
Fling Wide the Pearly Gates
Aimee Semple McPherson
1890 - 1944 Person Name: A. S. M. Author of "Fling Wide the Pearly Gates" in Living Way Hymnal McPherson, Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy Semple. (Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, October 9, 1890--September 26, 1944, Oakland, California). Foursquare. With no formal education beyond high school this remarkable and controversial woman founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel denomination. Pentacostalist missionary to China, 1917; itinerant Pentacostalist preacher in U.S. 1918-1923; pastor of Angelus Temple (Foursquare), Los Angeles, Calif. 1923-1944. Author of books on the Foursquare Church and composer of five oratorios. Evangelistic zeal is evident in her many published hymns. Full length biographical studies:
Thomas, Lately. (1970). Storming heaven : the lives and turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple McPherson. New York: William Morrow & Co.
McPherson, Aimee Semple. (1973). The Story of My Life. Waco, Tex.: Word Books.
--Terry W. York, DNAH Archives
Letter to the editor from daughter Roberta Semple Salter describes the drive from New York to Los Angeles in 1918. (Smithsonian, November 1980). DNAH Archives
Aimee Semple McPherson
