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Love Leads the Way

Author: James Rowe Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: How sweet the thought that oft is mine Used With Tune: [How sweet the thought that oft is mine]

[How sweet the thought that oft is mine]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Frank H. Stamps Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 11233 27112 34425 Used With Text: Love Leads the Way

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Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Select Radio Songs #52 (1946) First Line: How sweet the thought that oft is mine Refrain First Line: Love leads the way so all is well Languages: English Tune Title: [How sweet the thought that oft is mine]

Love Leads the Way

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Hallelujahs #80 (1922) First Line: How sweet the thought that oft is mine Languages: English Tune Title: [How sweet the thought that oft is mine]

Love Leads the Way

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Our Recorded Songs, number two #144 (1967) First Line: How sweet the thought that oft is mine Languages: English Tune Title: [How sweet the thought that oft is mine]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "Love Leads the Way" in Hallelujahs 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)