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[Home from work the laborers]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 31536 53135 33231

Author: Grace Glenn Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Home from work the laborers Refrain First Line: Home, sweet home Lyrics: 1 Home from work the laborers Come when day is ending, When the dusky shades of night With the light are blending. [Refrain] Home, sweet home, Rest from weary labors Home, sweet home, How calm our rest shall be. 2 Home in quiet to enjoy Blessings without number; Then to trust the Father's care O'er their peaceful slumber. [Refrain] 3 If so sweet the calm repose Of an earthly even, What when all life's labors close, Will it be in heaven. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Home from work the laborers]

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Rest at Home

Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: Songs of Gratitude #24 (1877) First Line: Home from work the laborers Refrain First Line: Home, sweet home Lyrics: 1 Home from work the laborers Come when day is ending, When the dusky shades of night With the light are blending. [Refrain] Home, sweet home, Rest from weary labors Home, sweet home, How calm our rest shall be. 2 Home in quiet to enjoy Blessings without number; Then to trust the Father's care O'er their peaceful slumber. [Refrain] 3 If so sweet the calm repose Of an earthly even, What when all life's labors close, Will it be in heaven. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Home from work the laborers]

Rest at Home

Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: Songs of Gratitude #24 (1880) First Line: Home from work the laborers Refrain First Line: Home, sweet home Languages: English Tune Title: [Home from work the laborers]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: J. H. F. Composer of "[Home from work the laborers]" in Songs of Gratitude James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry