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Author: Flora Kirkland Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When the clouds of trouble gather Refrain First Line: Farther on there's bliss forever! Used With Tune: [When the clouds of trouble gather]

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[When the clouds of trouble gather]

Appears in 20 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. S. Weeden Incipit: 32132 16151 33532 Used With Text: Better Farther On

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Better Farther On

Author: Flora Kirkland Hymnal: Songs of Triumph Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #53 (1890) First Line: When the clouds of trouble gather Refrain First Line: Farther on there's bliss forever! Languages: English Tune Title: [When the clouds of trouble gather]

Better Farther On

Author: Flora Kirkland Hymnal: Christian Hymns No. 1 #145 (1899) First Line: When the clouds of trouble gather Refrain First Line: Farther on there's bliss forever! Languages: English Tune Title: [When the clouds of trouble gather]

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W. S. Weeden

1847 - 1908 Arranger of "[When the clouds of trouble gather]" in Christian Hymns No. 1 Winfield S. Weeden was born in 1847 in Middleport, OH. In his early life he was active in teaching singing schools throughout that area in Ohio. As singer and associate to Judson VandeVenter in his evangelistic campaigns, Weeden assisted in meetings at East Palestine and Sebring. He compiled several collections of hymns among them The Peacemaker, Songs of the Peacemaker, and Songs of Sovereign Grace. Weeden died in 1908. (see 101 More Hymn Stories, Osbeck, Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1985) Mary Louise VanDyke

Flora Kirkland

1862 - 1911 Author of "Better Farther On" in Christian Hymns No. 1 Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911