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Everlasting Life

Author: Alfred Barratt Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: It is sweet to know as we onward go Refrain First Line: Everlasting Life, Everlasting Life
Everlasting Life

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[It is sweet to know as we onward go]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. M. Henson Incipit: 35456 51234 33221 Used With Text: Everlasting Life
[It is sweet to know as we onward go]

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Everlasting Life

Author: Rev. Alfred Barratt Hymnal: Fountain of Song #17 (1955) First Line: It is sweet to know as we onward go Refrain First Line: Everlasting Life, Everlasting Life Languages: English Tune Title: [It is sweet to know as we onward go]
Everlasting Life

It is sweet to know as we onward go

Author: U.S. Lindsey Hymnal: Fortieth Anniversary Specials 1926-1966 #126 (1966) Languages: English
It is sweet to know as we onward go

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Alfred Barratt

1879 - 1968 Person Name: Rev. Alfred Barratt Author of "Everlasting Life" in Fountain of Song Barratt, Alfred. (New Springs, Wigan, Lancashire, England, October 25, 1879--December, 1968). Coming to the United States as a young man, he studied at Gordon College, Massachusetts, and Newton Theological Seminary, Mass. He was ordained in December, 1913, by the Baptists in Connecticut, then by the Wheeling WV Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the USA, in 1924. He was pastor of Dallas, West Virginia, then of a series of churches in the Presbytery of Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was awarded the Doctor of Literature degree by Bob Jones College. On November 26, 1962, he wrote the undersigned: "For 39 long years I have labored hard and steady writing sermons, children's story sermons, and hymns. Up to the present day I have written 4,477 hymns. 80 percent of my sermons are published in books and magazines." --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives
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Urey S. Lindsey

Person Name: U.S. Lindsey Author of "It is sweet to know as we onward go" in Fortieth Anniversary Specials 1926-1966
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J. M. Henson

1887 - 1972 Composer of "[It is sweet to know as we onward go]" in Fountain of Song
J. M. Henson
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