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[How brief the life we live below]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. J. Lowe Incipit: 53451 76532 34234 Used With Text: Which Life Shall It Be?

Author: R. M. Offord Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: How brief the life we live below Refrain First Line: Life of joy, that is forever Used With Tune: [How brief the life we live below]

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Which Life Shall It Be?

Author: R. M. Offord Hymnal: Crowning Glory #171 (1894) First Line: How brief the life we live below Refrain First Line: Life of joy that is forever Languages: English Tune Title: [How brief the life we live below]

Which Life Shall It Be?

Author: R. M. Offord Hymnal: Rose of Sharon Hymns #560 (1917) First Line: How brief the life we live below Refrain First Line: Life of joy, that is forever Languages: English Tune Title: [How brief the life we live below]

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Robert M. Offord

1846 - 1924 Person Name: R. M. Offord Author of "Which Life Shall It Be?" in Rose of Sharon Hymns Offord, Robert M., son of an English "open-communion" Baptist, was born at St. Austell, Cornwall, Sept. 17, 1846. In 1870 he removed to America, where he was associated for some time with the Methodists, but subsequently joined the Reformed Dutch Church in 1878. He is editor of the New York Observer. To that paper he contributed:— 1. Jesus, heed me, lost and dying. Lent. 2. It is no untried way. Christ's Burden. No. 1 appeared on Jan. 25th, and No. 2 on Feb. 1st, 1883. They were revised for Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884 (Duffield's English Hymns, N. Y., 1886). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

J. J. Lowe

Composer of "[How brief the life we live below]" in Rose of Sharon Hymns John J Lowe. He was a professor who sang duets with his wife at evangelical meetings. One such meeting at Ocean Grove, NJ, was noted (8/10/1891) on the Hymntime website. His name is also associated with Philadelphia, PA, and in conjunction with other gospel song writers of his period in the Philadelphia area. John Perry