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The Bible in the Cabin by the Sea

Author: W. C. H. Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: There is a precious volume all finger-worn and old Refrain First Line: ’Tis the old precious Bible, blessed Bible Used With Tune: [There is a precious volume all finger-worn and old]

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[There is a precious volume]

Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Winston Cornelius Hafley Tune Sources: Songs for the Singing, Normal and Literary Schools by John B. Vaughan (Athens, GA: 1900) Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 53333 11167 16555 Used With Text: The Bible In The Cabin By The Sea

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The Bible in the Cabin by the Sea

Author: W. C. H. Hymnal: Songs for the Singing, Normal and Literary Schools #10 (1900) First Line: There is a precious volume all finger-worn and old Refrain First Line: 'Tis the old precious Bible, blessed Bible Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a precious volume all finger-worn and old]

The Bible in the Cabin by the Sea

Author: W. C. H.; R. E. W. Hymnal: Radiant Joy #89 (1944) First Line: There is a precious volume all finger-worn and old Refrain First Line: 'Tis the old precious Bible, blessed Bible Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a precious volume all finger-worn and old]

The Bible in the Cabin by the Sea

Author: W. C. H. Hymnal: The Best Gospel Songs and their composers #106 (1904) First Line: There is a precious volume all finger-worn and old Refrain First Line: ’Tis the old precious Bible, blessed Bible Tune Title: [There is a precious volume all finger-worn and old]

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R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Person Name: R. E. W. Arranger of "The Bible in the Cabin by the Sea" in Radiant Joy Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music. Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899. He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory. He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day). Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children. Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame. --www.wikipedia.org

W. C. Hafley

1839 - 1904 Person Name: W. C. H. Author of "The Bible in the Cabin by the Sea" in The Best Gospel Songs and their composers W. C. Hafley, author, composer and teacher; born in McMinn County, Tenn., Sept. 28th, 1839; educated in the common schools of his native county, but being a great lover of books, earnestly sought to improve himself by the reading of books, spending his evenings studying "Kirkam's Grammar" and the Bible, while listening to his father playing "Arkansaw Traveler," "Fisher's Hornpipe," etc., on a well-worn violin; served in the Confederate Army, but so well had he spent his time with his books in his tent that on his return he was called to take charge of a school, which profession he followed for fifteen years, and in 1883 was elected superintendent of schools in his native county; attended a session of the S.N.M.I., held at Dalton, Ga., the year after the principal of the school located there; has contributed to many song books, and is one of the associate authors of "Hymns of Glory" and "Gospel Melodies;" his "Sketches by the Wayside," a prose and poetical work, is very popular; resides in Atlanta, Ga. He married Elizabeth Frances Blevins in 1868 in McMinn County, Tennessee; died May 4, 1904, in Atlanta, Georgia and is buried at the Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. The Best Gospel Songs and Their Composers, by A. J. Showalter, 1904; and funeral notice from The Atlanta Constitution, May 10, 1904, p. 12