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My Father is King of Kings

Author: James Rowe Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: A message has come Refrain First Line: My Father is King of kings! Used With Tune: [A message has come]

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[A message has come]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thoro Harris Incipit: 53165 53156 66712 Used With Text: My Father is King of Kings

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My Father is King of Kings

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Songs of Summerland #140 (1943) First Line: A message has come Refrain First Line: My Father is King of kings! Languages: English Tune Title: [A message has come]
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My Father is King of Kings

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Songs for the King's Business #10 (1909) First Line: A message has come Topics: Adoption Tune Title: [A message has come]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "My Father Is King of Kings" 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)

Thoro Harris

1874 - 1955 Composer of "[A message has come]" in Songs for the King's Business Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906) Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor) Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922) --www.hymntime.com/tch
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