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He Will Never Leave Me

Author: J. R. Baxter Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Gracious is the promise of my Lord and King Refrain First Line: Gracious is the promise, He will not forsake me
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[Gracious is the promise of my Lord and King]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. R. Baxter, Jr. Incipit: 33333 21656 51722 Used With Text: He Will Never Leave Me
[Gracious is the promise of my Lord and King]

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He Will Never Leave Me

Author: J. R. B., Jr. Hymnal: Gospel Ship #110 (1953) First Line: Gracious is the promise of my Lord and King Refrain First Line: Gracious is the promise, He will not forsake me Languages: English Tune Title: [Gracious is the promise of my Lord and King]
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He Will Never Leave Me

Author: J. R. B., Jr. Hymnal: The Blessed Way #189 (1925) First Line: Gracious is the promise of my Lord and King Refrain First Line: Gracious is the promise, He will not forsake me Languages: English Tune Title: [Gracious is the promise of my Lord and King]
He Will Never Leave Me

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J. R. Baxter

1887 - 1960 Author of "He Will Never Leave Me" Jesse Randall (Pap) Baxter, Jr. (1887-1960) Born: December 8, 1887, Lebanon, Alabama. Died: January 21, 1960. Baxter grew up in De­Kalb Coun­ty, Al­a­ba­ma. In 1926, he bought part of Vir­gil Stamps’ Gos­pel mu­sic firm, which be­came the Stamps-Bax­ter Mu­sic and Print­ing Com­pa­ny, one of the most suc­cess­ful Gos­pel mu­sic pub­lish­ers of the ear­ly 20th Century. Bax­ter ran the com­pa­ny’s Chat­ta­noo­ga, Ten­nes­see, of­fice un­til Stamps’ death in 1940, then moved to Dall­as, Tex­as, to run the main of­fice. Af­ter Bax­ter’s death, his wife, Clarice, ran the bus­i­ness un­til she died; it was then sold to Zon­der­van. Bax­ter was in­duct­ed in­to the South­ern Gos­pel Music As­so­ci­a­tion Hall of Fame in 1997. Lyrics-- After the Sun­rise Farther Along God Shall Wipe Away All Tears (© 1940) He Bore It All I Have Peace in My Soul I Hold His Hand (© 1929) I Love My Sav­ior, Too I Want to Help Some Wea­ry Pil­grim I’m Liv­ing in Ca­naan Now Living Grace Praise the Lamb of God Something Hap­pens Travel the Sun­lit Way Try Je­sus When He Blessed My Soul When We Meet to Part No More © Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)
J. R. Baxter
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