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Joy to Serve Jesus

Author: James Rowe Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Just to feel the Master near to do His bidding here Refrain First Line: It is a joy, wonderful joy

[Just to feel the Master near to do His bidding here]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Used With Text: Joy to serve Jesus

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Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Songs for Service #51 (1918) First Line: Just to feel the Master near to do His bidding here Refrain First Line: It is a joy, wonderful joy Topics: Joy; Service Languages: English Tune Title: [Just to feel the Master near to do His bidding here]

Joy to serve Jesus

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Singing Glory #d40 (1929) First Line: Just to feel the Master near Refrain First Line: It is a joy, wonderful joy

Joy to serve Jesus

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Diamonds #d111 (1916) First Line: Just to feel the Master near Refrain First Line: It is a joy, wonderful joy Languages: English

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "Joy to Serve Jesus" 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)

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Just to feel the Master near to do His bidding here]" in Songs for Service Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman