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The Beautiful City of Gold

Author: Rev. Alfred Barratt Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: There's a beautiful city of gold Refrain First Line: In that beautiful city of gold Used With Tune: [There's a beautiful city of gold]

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[There's a beautiful city of gold]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. B. Beall Used With Text: The Beautiful City of Gold

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The Beautiful City of Gold

Author: Rev. Alfred Barratt Hymnal: The Blessed Way #36 (1925) First Line: There's a beautiful city of gold Refrain First Line: In that beautiful city of gold Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a beautiful city of gold]
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The Beautiful City of Gold

Author: Rev. Alfred Barratt Hymnal: The Song-Land Way #36 (1925) First Line: There's a beautiful city of gold Refrain First Line: In that beautiful city of gold Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a beautiful city of gold]

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B. B. Beall

1874 - 1945 Composer of "[There's a beautiful city of gold]" in The Blessed Way Benjamin Burke (B. B.) Beall, was born on May 25, 1874, Dallas, Georgia. Benjamin graduated in music and elocution from the Texas Musical Institute. He ran the B. B. Beall publishing company in Douglasville, Georgia. He died on October 7, 1945, in Douglasville, Georgia. Some of his publications: Bright Beautiful Bells (Birmingham, Alabama: B. B. Beal & Company, 1900) Gems for the Sunday Schools (Douglasville, Georgia: B. B. Beall & Company, 1902) Lasting Songs, B. B. Beall et al (Douglasville, Georgia: B. B. Beall & Company, 1910) NN, Hymnary editor. Source: www.hymntime.com/tch/

Alfred Barratt

1879 - 1968 Author of "The Beautiful City of Gold" Barratt, Alfred. (New Springs, Wigan, Lancashire, England, October 25, 1879--December, 1968). Coming to the United States as a young man, he studied at Gordon College, Massachusetts, and Newton Theological Seminary, Mass. He was ordained in December, 1913, by the Baptists in Connecticut, then by the Wheeling WV Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the USA, in 1924. He was pastor of Dallas, West Virginia, then of a series of churches in the Presbytery of Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was awarded the Doctor of Literature degree by Bob Jones College. On November 26, 1962, he wrote the undersigned: "For 39 long years I have labored hard and steady writing sermons, children's story sermons, and hymns. Up to the present day I have written 4,477 hymns. 80 percent of my sermons are published in books and magazines." --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives
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