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[Come, for all is ready, and the feast is spread]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Daniel Brink Towner Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 56543 51217 62321 Used With Text: Hear The Word

Author: Julia H. Johnston Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Come, for all is ready, and the feast is spread Refrain First Line: Hear the word, All may come Used With Tune: [Come, for all is ready, and the feast is spread]

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Heard the Word

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: The Gospel Pilot Hymnal #22 (1899) First Line: Come, for all is ready, and the feast is spread Refrain First Line: Hear the word, All may come Languages: English Tune Title: [Come, for all is ready, and the feast is spread]

Hear The Word

Author: Julia Harriette Johnston Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #9762 First Line: Come, for all is ready, and the feast is spread Lyrics: 1 Come, for all is ready, and the feast is spread, Come, for Jesus offers you the living Bread, Hear His invitation, ’mid the toil and strife, Come, and take the gift of life. Refrain: Hear the word, All may come, Without price, Come and take eternal life. 2 Gospel bells are ringing, hear the echo sweet, Calling in the wand’ring to the Savior’s feet, Heed the tender message, seek the great reward, Hear the voice of Christ your Lord. [Refrain] 3 Welcome, ever welcome to the feast of love, Whosoever will, may see His face above, Hark, with hallelujahs, how the high courts ring, Come, and crown the Savior King. [Refrain] 4 You who know how precious is His grace so free, Take the gift of life yet more abundantly. Spread the invitation, there is room for all, Sound abroad the loving call. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Come, for all is ready, and the feast is spread]

Heard the Word

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: The Chorus of Praise #2 (1898) First Line: Come, for all is ready, and the feast is spread Refrain First Line: Hear the word, All may come Tune Title: [Come, for all is ready, and the feast is spread]

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Julia H. Johnston

1849 - 1919 Author of "Heard the Word" in The Chorus of Praise Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Composer of "[Come, for all is ready, and the feast is spread]" in The Chorus of Praise Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives