[God is calling now His forces]

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[God is calling now His forces]

Composer: George F. Root
Published in 9 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Piano/Organ
	The Mind of Christ (Contemplation of the…

Composer: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	[God is calling now His forces]
Composer:	George F. Root
Meter:	15.15.15.15.15.15
Incipit:	12351 77671 21321
Key:	A♭ Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

A Little Farther

Just before His trial, Jesus entered dark Gethsemane;
Leaving eight outside, took Peter and two sons of Zebedee.
Oh, the anguish in the garden, as again He left the three;
And He went a little farther, all the way to Calvary!

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Spare My Boy

Sweet the Moments

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