There's Happiness in God's Great Love

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So long my life was weak and sad

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [So long my life was weak and sad]
Published in 2 hymnals

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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First Line:	So long my life was weak and sad
Title:	There's Happiness in God's Great Love
Author:	James Rowe
Language:	English
Notes:	"Respectfully dedicated to W. P. Ganus, our father and teacher, founder of Ganus Brothers Music School, established in 1900, who is giving his life to the great gospel work, and has turned out more graduates than any man in the south. - Ganus Brothers Jr. Quartet"