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To Look On His Face

Author: James Rowe Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O how sweet is the thought that salvation has brought Refrain First Line: To look on the face of my Kin

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[Oh, how sweet is the tho't that salvation has brought]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Used With Text: To Look On His Face

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O how sweet is the thought

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Our Songs of Faith #d83 (1927)
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To Look On His Face

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Rodeheaver's Gospel Solos and Duets #143 (1925) First Line: Oh, how sweet is the tho't that salvation has brought Refrain First Line: To look on the face of my King Lyrics: 1 Oh, how sweet is the tho’t that salvation has brought, Which to memory ever will cling; When my labors are done and the life crown is won, I shall look on the face of my King! Chorus: To look on the face of my King! What rapture the bliss it will bring! Nothing else there will be which will satisfy me, But to look on the face of my King. 2 How it comforts my soul when the trouble-waves roll, And my heart has no carol to sing, Just to think that some day, at the end of the way, I shall look on the face of my King! [Chorus] 3 With the dear ones who wait at the beautiful gate, I am longing His praises to sing; But I long o’er and o’er and I long evermore, Just to look on the face of my King. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, how sweet is the tho't that salvation has brought]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "To Look On His Face" 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)

B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Composer of "[Oh, how sweet is the tho't that salvation has brought]" in Rodeheaver's Gospel Solos and Duets Bentley DeForrest Ackley was born 27 September 1872 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the brother of A. H. Ackley. In his early years, he traveled with his father and his father's band. He learned to play several musical instruments. By the age of 16, after the family had moved to New York, he began to play the organ for churches. He married Bessie Hill Morley on 20 December 1893. In 1907 he joined the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team as secretary/pianist. He worked for and traveled with the Billy Sunday organization for 8 years. He also worked as an editor for the Homer Rodeheaver publishing company. He composed more than 3000 tunes. He died 3 September 1958 in Winona Hills, Indiana at the age of 85 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana, near his friend Homer Rodeheaver. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleyfamilygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)
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