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Better Days Are Coming

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When darkest night surrounds you Used With Tune: [When darkest night surrounds you]

[When darkest night surrounds you]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. Towner Incipit: 13333 43355 53555 Used With Text: Better Days are Coming

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Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Hymnal: The Gospel Hymn Book #96 (1903) First Line: When darkest night surrounds you Topics: Faith Languages: English Tune Title: [When darkest night surrounds you]

Better Days Are Coming

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Hymnal: Celestial Songs #145 (1921) First Line: When darkest night surrounds you Languages: English Tune Title: [When darkest night surrounds you]

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D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Composer of "[When darkest night surrounds you]" in The Gospel Hymn Book Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

Carrie Ellis Breck

1855 - 1934 Person Name: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Author of "Better Days are Coming" Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersy, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck.