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[The Father's door is open wide]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. A. Post Incipit: 12333 34545 12332 Used With Text: Come and Welcome

Come and Welcome

Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: The Father's door is open wide Topics: Invitation Used With Tune: [The Father's door is open wide]

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Come and Welcome

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns No. 4 #122 (1907) First Line: The Father's door is open wide Topics: Invitation Tune Title: [The Father's door is open wide]

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined #465 (1907) First Line: The Father's door is open wide Topics: Invitation Tune Title: [The Father's door is open wide]

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Author of "Come and Welcome" in Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined 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)