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Praise the world's Redeemer

Author: James Rowe Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Come, ye faithful lovers of Jesus

[Come, ye faithful lovers of Jesus, your voices raise]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Albert C. Fisher Incipit: 12356 53217 12317 Used With Text: Praise the World's Redeemer

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Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Songs of the Great Salvation #158 (1918) First Line: Come, ye faithful lovers of Jesus, your voices raise Refrain First Line: Strains of rapture send above Languages: English Tune Title: [Come, ye faithful lovers of Jesus, your voices raise]

Praise the world's Redeemer

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Songs of Redemption #d29 (1920) First Line: Come, ye faithful lovers of Jesus Languages: English

Praise the world's Redeemer

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Harvest of Light #d30 (1913) First Line: Come, ye faithful lovers of Jesus Refrain First Line: Strains of rapture send above Languages: English

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "Praise the World's Redeemer" in Songs of the Great Salvation 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)

Albert C. Fisher

1886 - 1946 Composer of "[Come, ye faithful lovers of Jesus, your voices raise]" in Songs of the Great Salvation Born: March 10, 1886, New Berne, North Carolina. Died: February 6, 1946, Dallas, Texas. Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas. Fisher attended Fort Worth University and Polytechnic College, Fort Worth, Texas; Vanderbilt University; Southern Methodist University; and earned his Doctor of Divinity degree at Asbury College, Kentucky. He moved to Fort Worth in 1908, and for a decade served as a general evangelist for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In World War I, he was a military chaplain. After the war, he worked in the East Oklahoma Conference and (beginning in 1944), the North Texas Conference. His works include: Best Revival Songs (Nashville, Tennessee: The Cokesbury Press, 1924) (music editor) © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.come/tch)