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It is waiting there for me

Author: Eden Reade Latta Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: There's a welcome, blest, that my soul shall hear Refrain First Line: I shall go, sometime, to that beauteous clime

NEWFOUNDLAND

Meter: 10.7.10 D Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Daniel Webster Crist Tune Key: D Flat Major Incipit: 54333 43322 23446 Used With Text: It Is Waiting There for Me!

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Author: Eden R. Latta Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #3105 Meter: 10.7.10 D First Line: There's a welcome blest that my soul shall hear Refrain First Line: I shall go, some time, to that beauteous clime Lyrics: 1. There’s a welcome blest that my soul shall hear; It is waiting there for me! From the loving lips of the Savior dear! It is waiting there for me! Refrain I shall go, some time, to that beauteous clime, And a dweller there shall be; And shall there possess all the blessedness That is waiting there for me! 2. There’s a greeting glad from the sainted host; It is waiting there for me! Who are safely housed, though they once were lost! It is waiting there for me! [Refrain[ 3. There’s a building fair in the promised land! It is waiting there for me! ’Tis my Father’s house, where the white-robed stand; It is waiting there for me! [Refrain[ 4. There’s a fount of joy where the pilgrims drink; It is waiting there for me! Who have anchored safe at the river’s brink; It is waiting there for me! [Refrain[ Languages: English Tune Title: NEWFOUNDLAND

It is waiting there for me

Author: Eden Reade Latta Hymnal: Victory of Song #d66 (1892) First Line: There's a welcome, blest, that my soul shall hear Refrain First Line: I shall go, sometime, to that beauteous clime

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E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Person Name: Eden Reeder Latta Author of "It is waiting there for me" Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA. John Perry

Daniel Webster Crist

1857 - 1929 Composer of "NEWFOUNDLAND" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: November 28, 1857, New Chambersburg, Ohio. Died: March 24, 1929, Alliance, Ohio. Buried: Moultrie Chapel Cemetery, Moultrie, Ohio. Son of Robert Crist and Mary Ruff Crist, Daniel graduated from Ohio Northern University in 1882, and taught school in Columbiana and Stark County, Ohio, for 14 years. He became superintendent of the Osnaburg grade school in 1880, and for three years was superintendent at New Franklin. In 1901, he was elected to the Ohio state legislature, and became a state senator in 1905. Crist was composing as early as 1888, and at least through 1910, when he scored the FLOWER GIRL WALTZ. He worked for 30 years as a successful music publisher, starting in Moultrie, Ohio, where he also taught, farmed, and in New Alexander, served as a church music director and Sunday school superintendent. In 1915, he moved to Alliance, Ohio (where he became president of the Peoples Bank of Alliance). His works include: The Evergreen Waltz Joy and Praise for Sunday Schools, with R. A. Glenn (Cincinnati, Ohio: H. L. Benham & Company, 1886) Gospel Gleanings, 1886 Victory of Song (Moultrie, Ohio: D. W. Crist, 1892) --www.hymntime.com/tch