Sowing for the Harvest Day

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In our Master's footsteps going

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [In our Master's footsteps going]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 In our Master’s footsteps going,
Seeds we scatter all the way,
Seeds of love and seeds of kindness,
Sowing for the harvest day.

Refrain:
Sowing, sowing, always sowing,
Precious seeds along life’s way;
Love for our Redeemer showing,
Sowing for the harvest day.

2 Ev’ry time we help another,
Ev’ry time a smile is shown,
Or a word of love is spoken
To the needy, seed is sown. [Refrain]

3 If we lift a fallen brother,
If we brighten someone’s way,
We are helping Christ, our Savior,
Sowing for the harvest day. [Refrain]

4 In the footsteps of our Master,
Day by day and year by year,
We will sow with faith and courage,
Till the golden grain appear. [Refrain]

Source: Progressive Sunday School Songs #211

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Author: James Rowe

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) Go to person page >

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