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Fling Down Your Gold for Jesus

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Eternity is dawning Refrain First Line: Go, seek immortal treasure

[Eternity is dawning]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Harry Sanders Incipit: 55651 43211 32255 Used With Text: Fling down your Gold for Jesus

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Fling Down Your Gold for Jesus

Author: Mrs. P. J. Owens Hymnal: Songs of the New Life #R64 (1883) First Line: Eternity is dawning Refrain First Line: Go, seek immortal treasure Languages: English Tune Title: [Eternity is dawning]

Fling down your Gold for Jesus

Author: Mrs. P. J. Owens Hymnal: Songs of Redeeming Love #64 (1882) First Line: Eternity is dawning Refrain First Line: Go, seek immortal treasure Languages: English Tune Title: [Eternity is dawning]

Fling down your Gold for Jesus

Author: Mrs. P. J. Owens Hymnal: The Quartet #64 (1884) First Line: Eternity is dawning Refrain First Line: Go, seek immortal treasure Languages: English Tune Title: [Eternity is dawning]

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Priscilla Jane Owens

1829 - 1907 Person Name: Mrs. P. J. Owens Author of "Fling down your Gold for Jesus" in Songs of Redeeming Love Owens, Priscilla Jane, was born July 21, 1829, of Scotch and Welsh descent, and is now (1906) resident at Baltimore, where she is engaged in public-school work. For 50 years Miss Owen has interested herself in Sunday-school work, and most of her hymns were written for children's services. Her hymn in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, "We have heard a joyful sound" (Missions), was written for a Sunday-school Mission Anniversary, and the words were adapted to the chorus "Vive le Roi" in the opera The Huguenots. [Rev. James Bonar, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix II (1907) ========================= Owens, Priscilla Jane. (July 21, 1829--December 5, 1907). Of Scottish and Welsh ancestry, she spent her entire life in Baltimore. She was a public school teacher there for 49 years. She was a member of the Union Square Methodist Church and took particular interest in its Sunday School. Her literary efforts, both in prose and poetry, appeared in such religious periodicals as the Methodist Protestant and the Christian Standard. --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives