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Then I shall be an angel

Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: If I would be an angel

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Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: T. Worsley Staniforth Incipit: 13217 11243 21225 Used With Text: If I could be an Angel

[If I would be an angel]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: H. R. Palmer Incipit: 53217 65355 67213 Used With Text: If I Would be an Angel

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If I Would be an Angel

Author: D. K. Hymnal: Garnered Gems #162 (1892) Refrain First Line: Then I shall be an angel Languages: English Tune Title: [If I would be an angel]

If I would be an angel

Hymnal: Echo to Happy Voices #47 (1869) Languages: English

Then I shall be an angel

Hymnal: Palmer's Sabbath School Songs #49 (1868) First Line: If I would be an angel

1834 - 1907 Composer of "[If I would be an angel]" in Garnered Gems Palmer, Horatio Richmond, MUS. DOC, was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and 5 of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881. His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymnwriter he is known by his "Yield not to temptation," which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love, &c, 1874, and other collections. In America its use is extensive. Dr. Palmer's degree was conferred by the University of Chicago in 1880. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =============== Palmer, H. R., p. 877, i. The hymn "Would you gain the best in life" (Steadfastness), in the Congregational Sunday School Supplement, 1891, the Council School Hymn Book, 1905, and others, is by this author. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)