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[The way is dark my Father!]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. J. Vail Incipit: 55565 51767 16543 Used With Text: Father, Take my Hand

Father, Take my Hand

Author: Rev. H. N. Cobb Appears in 12 hymnals First Line: The way is dark my Father! Used With Tune: [The way is dark my Father!]

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Father, Take my Hand

Author: Rev. H. N. Cobb Hymnal: Gospel Hymns No. 3 #95 (1878) First Line: The way is dark my Father! Languages: English Tune Title: [The way is dark my Father!]

Father, Take my Hand

Author: Rev. H. N. Cobb Hymnal: Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 #188 (1894) First Line: The way is dark, my Father! Languages: English Tune Title: [The way is dark, my Father!]

Father, take My Hand

Hymnal: Salvation Army Music #342 (1880) First Line: The way is dark, my father Languages: English Tune Title: [The way is dark, my father]

1818 - 1883 Composer of "[The way is dark my Father!]" in Gospel Hymns No. 3 In his youth Silas Jones Vail learned the hatter's trade at Danbury, Ct. While still a young man, he went to New York and took employment in the fashionable hat store of William H. Beebe. Later he established himself in business as a hatter at 118 Fulton Street, where he was for many years successful. But the conditions of trade changed, and he could not change with them. After his failure in 1869 or 1870 he devoted his entire time and attention to music. He was the writer of much popular music for use in churches and Sunday schools. Pieces of music entitled "Scatter Seeds of Kindness," "Gates Ajar," "Close to Thee," "We Shall Sleep, but not Forever," and "Nothing but Leaves" were known to all church attendants twenty years ago. Fanny Crosby, the blind authoress, wrote expressly for him many of the verses he set to music. --Vail, Henry H. (Henry Hobart). Genealogy of some of the Vail family descended from Jeremiah Vail at Salem, Mass., 1639, p. 234.