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[I have a friend whose changeless love]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Howard E. Smith

Author: James Rowe Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: I have a friend whose changeless love Refrain First Line: I have a friend whose love complete Used With Tune: [I have a friend whose changeless love]

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I Have a Friend

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: The Gospel Message No. 1 #29 (1911) First Line: I have a friend whose changeless love Refrain First Line: I have a friend whose love complete Languages: English Tune Title: [I have a friend whose changeless love]

I Have a Friend

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: The Voice of Praise No. 3 #125 (1912) First Line: I have a friend whose changeless love Refrain First Line: I have a friend whose love complete Languages: English Tune Title: [I have a friend whose changeless love]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "I Have a Friend" in The Gospel Message No. 1 Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)