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James Wells

Short Name: James Wells
Full Name: Wells, James, 1872-1947
Birth Year: 1872
Death Year: 1947
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Texts by James Wells (86)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
See the gospel army as it marches on the wayJames Wells (Author)English1
A spotlight shines down from the heaven's aboveJames Wells (Author)English1
Across the sea, over billows wildJames Wells (Author)English2
Across the years upon a hillJames Wells (Author)English1
All my sorrows have departed, I'm no longer heavy heartedJames Wells (Author)English1
Always trust the mighty SaviorJames Wells (Author)English1
As the shades of night were falling, then I heard my Savior callingJames Wells (Author)English1
As you journey o'er the highwayJames Wells (Author)1
At evening in the gloamingJames Wells (Author)English1
Better get to praying, O Lordy, yesJames Wells (Author)English3
Do not grow discouragedJames Wells (Author)1
Do sore tribulations perplex you?James Wells (Author)English2
Farewell, our little one has goneJames Wells (Author)1
Fertile fields and lovely valleys, scenes of beauty here belowJames Wells (Author)English1
God keep my heart so pure and whiteJames Wells (Author)English1
How often we envy the rich as they passJames Wells (Author)English1
I am but a weary wandererJames Wells (Author)English1
I am happy all the day, As I journey over life's wayJames Wells (Author)English1
I am singing on the way (Wells)James Wells (Author)1
I care not today what the morrow may bringJames Wells (Author)English56
I have plunged beneath the flood Of my Savior's precious bloodJames Wells (Author)English1
I once was sinking deep in sinJames Wells (Author)English1
If the Lord has pardoned you and cleansed your heart from every sinJames Wells (Author)English1
If you are weary and filled with despairJames Wells (Author)English1
If you'd do a deed for JesusJames Wells (Author)English1
I'm on a weary pilgrimage within a desert landJames Wells (Author)English1
I'm so glad the blessed Savior Died for me on CalvaryJames Wells (Author)English1
I'm traveling to that city far beyond the sunset skiesJames Wells (Author)English2
In memory there lives a spot which time has touched in vainJames Wells (Author)English1
In this world so dark and dreary (Wells)James Wells (Author)English1
It is good to live in this old world belowJames Wells (Author)English2
I've a Friend, a Guide, a HelperJames Wells (Author)1
Jesus is a Rock in a weary landJames Wells (Author)1
Last night of paradise I dreamedJames Wells (Author)2
Let your face be filled with sunshineJames Wells (Author)English1
Lo a mighty army still is marching onJames Wells (Author)English1
Many souls are traveling on the downward wayJames Wells (Author)English1
Oft when the sun is adorningJames Wells (Author)English1
Often times we sit and ponderJames Wells (Author)English2
On some bright and glorious morning, We shall hear a trumpet warningJames Wells (Author)English2
On some glad and glorious morningJames Wells (Author)English2
On the last great day when the saints ariseJames Wells (Author)English1
On the resurrection morning, We shall hear the clarion warningJames Wells (Author)English8
Onward we go as we follow our KingJames Wells (Author)English1
Precious is Jesus, my Savior and GuideJames Wells (Author)English1
Savior keep me close beside TheeJames Wells (Author)English1
Some day, when all my toil is overJames Wells (Author)English1
Souls in the darkness of sin and of sorrowJames Wells (Author)English1
Strong men, brave men, the world needs ChristiansJames Wells (Author)1
The Bible is the grandest bookJames Wells (Author)2
The fields are white to harvest, The Master calls todayJames Wells (Author)English1
The Lord is calling so sweetly to youJames Wells (Author)English1
There is a land supernal, fairJames Wells (Author)English1
There's a city bright and fair, where is neither woe nor careJames Wells (Author)English1
There's a city eternal where I long to dwellJames Wells (Author)1
There's a city far away, In that land of perfect dayJames Wells (Author)English1
There's a hand that's ever writingJames Wells (Author)English1
There's a home beyond the sky, where cherished treasures never dieJames Wells (Author)English1
There's a path that's straight and narrow, leading to the realms aboveJames Wells (Author)English1
They sing of a beautiful cityJames Wells (Author)English1
Tho' dark is the way of life's journeyJames Wells (Author)1
Though dark the cloud, the tempest sweepsJames Wells (Author)1
Though the tempest rages fiercely and the billows madly dashJames Wells (Author)English1
'Tis but a little sleep, and weary eyesJames Wells (Author)English2
Traveling life's pathway so many are sadJames Wells (Author)1
Trust only in the BibleJames Wells (Author)English1
We know not the day, we know the hourJames Wells (Author)English2
We may not know the meaning hereJames Wells (Author)English2
We read in the book of a SaviorJames Wells (Author)English6
What though the tempest is risingJames Wells (Author)English6
When I shall leave this vale of tearsJames Wells (Author)English1
When my work on earth is over And my happy soul shall riseJames Wells (Author)English1
When the evening shadows lengthen, when the sun sinks in the westJames Wells (Author)English1
When the roll is called in heaven and before the Lord we standJames Wells (Author)English1
When the roll is called in heaven and we answer to our names (Jackson)James Wells (Author)1
When the way is weary Dark and dull and grayJames Wells (Author)1
When the way is weary you mustJames Wells (Author)1
When the world is dark and dreary (Wells)James Wells (Author)English1
When trials burdens engulf you in woeJames Wells (Author)1
When you have a sorrow, trouble or a careJames Wells (Author)English1
When your life is dreary and is filled with careJames Wells (Author)English1
Whence comes the peace that fills my soulJames Wells (Author)English1
While the blessed dead are sleepingJames Wells (Author)English1
While we linger broken heartedJames Wells (Author)1
White are the fields to harvestJames Wells (Author)English1
Would you wear a crown eternalJames Wells (Author)English2
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