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[Well, wife, I've found the model church]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. O. Excell Hymnal Title: Calvary Songs Incipit: 51231 61556 17125 Used With Text: The Model Church

The Model Church

Appears in 30 hymnals Hymnal Title: Triumphant Songs No.1 First Line: Well wife, I've found the model church Used With Tune: [Well wife, I've found the model church]

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Author: John Yates Hymnal: Calvary Songs #85 (1944) Hymnal Title: Calvary Songs First Line: Well, wife, I've found the model church Languages: English Tune Title: [Well, wife, I've found the model church]

The Model Church

Author: John Yates Hymnal: Radio Beams #29 (1944) Hymnal Title: Radio Beams First Line: Well, wife, I've found the model church Languages: English Tune Title: [Well, wife, I've found the model church]

The Model Church

Author: John Yates Hymnal: The Gospel in Song #217 (1885) Hymnal Title: The Gospel in Song First Line: Well, wife, I've found the model church Languages: English Tune Title: [Well, wife, I've found the model church]

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E. O. Excell

1851 - 1921 Hymnal Title: Triumphant Songs No.1 Composer of "[Well wife, I've found the model church]" in Triumphant Songs No.1 Edwin Othello Excel USA 1851-1921. Born at Uniontown, OH, he started working as a bricklayer and plasterer. He loved music and went to Chicago to study it under George Root. He married Eliza Jane “Jennie” Bell in 1871. They had a son, William, in 1874. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became a prominent publisher, composer, song leader, and singer of music for church, Sunday school, and evangelistic meetings. He founded singing schools at various locations in the country and worked with evangelist, Sam Jones, as his song leader for two decades. He established a music publishing house in Chicago and authored or composed over 2,000 gospel songs. While assisting Gypsy Smith in an evangelistic campaign in Louisville, KY, he became ill, and died in Chicago, IL. He published 15 gospel music books between 1882-1925. He left an estate valued at $300,000. John Perry

John Henry Yates

1837 - 1900 Person Name: John Yates Hymnal Title: Triumphant Songs No.2 Author of "The Model Church" in Triumphant Songs No.2 Rev. John H. Yates, was born in Batavia, N. Y., November 31, 1837. He was educated at the Batavia Union School, but at the age of eighteen was forced to engage in business as a clerk to help maintain his aged parents. For several years he was with his brother, Thomas Yates, in the shoe business; afterwards, for seven years, salesman in G. B. Worthington's hardware store. In 1871 he took charge of the fancy goods department in E. L. & G. D. Kenyon's double store and remained there fifteen years. In 1886 he was called to be local editor of the Progressive Batavian, and filled the position nearly ten years. When twenty-one years of age Mr. Yates was licensed to preach in the Methodist church, but was not ordained until 1897. For nearly seven years now he has been pastor of the Free Will Baptist church at West Bethany. At about the age of twenty, Mr. Yates began writing poetry at the solicitation of his mother, and very soon his ballads and hymns were printed and sung all over the land. In 1891, Ira D. Sankey, the famous singer, engaged Mr. Yates to write gospel hymns for him, solely; he was led to do this because of the wonderful success of Mr. Yates's old man ballad, the "Model Church," which has been sung all over the world. After the contract with Mr. Sankey. the following hymns soon appeared from the pen of Mr. Yates: "Harbor Bell," "Faith is the Victory," "Beautiful Hills," "Our Name's in Heaven," and about twenty others. In December, 1897, Mr. Yates issued a volume of ballads and poems, a book of 117 poems and 226 pages, which are now nearly all sold. On the occasion of the dedication of the old land office in 1894, Mr. Yates wrote the dedicatory poem, "Our Ancient Landmark," a production of unusual merit. From Our County and it's people: descriptive work on Genesee County, New York, edited by: F. W. Beers (J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890)