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When the Heart is Right

You may have to bear heavy loads of care

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [You may have to bear heavy loads of care]
Published in 10 hymnals

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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 >

Text Information

First Line: You may have to bear heavy loads of care
Title: When the Heart is Right
Author: James Rowe
Language: English
Refrain First Line: When the heart is right
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 10 of 10)

Billows of Praise #d273

Page Scan

Calvary Hymns #30

Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 2 #d278

Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 4 #d260

Glory Gleams #d299

Gospel Rays #d303

Home Gospel Songs No. 2 #d271

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Songs of the Cross #13

Soul Echoes #d273

Soul Melodies #d269

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