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[It matters not how drear the road]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. M. Henson Incipit: 53231 33252 12354 Used With Text: O Lights of Home

Author: James Rowe Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: It matters not how drear the road Refrain First Line: O lights of home, O beacons bright Used With Tune: [It matters not how drear the road]

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O Lights of Home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Crowning Hymns No. 10 #150 (1930) First Line: It matters not how drear the road Refrain First Line: O lights of home, O beacons bright Languages: English Tune Title: [It matters not how drear the road]

O Lights of Home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Crowning Hymns No. 8 #180 (1928) First Line: It matters not how drear the road Refrain First Line: O lights of home, O beacons bright Languages: English Tune Title: [It matters not how drear the road]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "O Lights of Home" in Crowning Hymns No. 10 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)