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[O What joy when we meet with the friends that we love]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 34532 33432 51176

Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O What joy when we meet with the friends that we love Refrain First Line: When the gates, pearly gates shall swing open some day Used With Tune: [O What joy when we meet with the friends that we love]

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When the Gates Open for Me

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Church Service Hymns #72 (1948) First Line: O What joy when we meet with the friends that we love Refrain First Line: When the gates, pearly gates shall swing open some day Languages: English Tune Title: [O What joy when we meet with the friends that we love]

When the Gates Open for Me

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Rodeheaver's Gospel Solos and Duets No. 4 #17 (1946) First Line: O what joy when we meet with the friends that we love Refrain First Line: When the gates, pearly gates shall swing open some day Languages: English Tune Title: [O what joy when we meet with the friends that we love]

People

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Author of "When the Gates Open for Me" in Church Service Hymns Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[O What joy when we meet with the friends that we love]" in Church Service Hymns Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman