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[Si triste está mi sendra]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred Smith Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11232 17222 34531 Used With Text: Si triste está mi sendra

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My Father Planned It All

Author: H. H. Pierson Appears in 17 hymnals First Line: What though the way be lonely Refrain First Line: I sing thru the shade and the sunshine Used With Tune: [What though the way be lonely]

Si triste está mi sendra

Author: H. H. Pierson; Gospel Publishers Appears in 2 hymnals Refrain First Line: Yo canto en sol y en sombra Used With Tune: [Si triste está mi sendra]

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My Father Planned It All

Author: H. H. Pierson Hymnal: Favorites Number 5 #5 (1961) First Line: What though the way be lonely Refrain First Line: I sing thru the shade and the sunshine Languages: English Tune Title: [What though the way be lonely]

My Father Planned It All

Author: H. H. Pierson Hymnal: Bible Truth Hymns #237 (2008) First Line: What tho' the way be lonely Refrain First Line: I sing thru the shade and the sunshine Topics: Assurance; God’s Care; God’s Care Languages: English Tune Title: [What tho' the way be lonely]

My Father Planned It All

Author: H. H. Pierson, 20th Century Hymnal: Rejoice Hymns #145 (2011) Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain First Line: What though the way be lonely Refrain First Line: I sing through the shade and the sunshine Topics: God Father; Guidance Languages: English Tune Title: OMNIPOTENCE

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Alfred B. Smith

1916 - 2001 Composer of "[What though the way be lonely]" in Favorites Number 5 Used pseudonym B. C. Laurelton ---------- In 1930, he began playing on radio broadcasts in Jersey City, New Jersey, on "The Old Fashioned Gospel Hour." After meeting Wendell P. Loveless, Alfred enrolled at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and became a member of the WMBI staff. During service as Minister of Music at The Church of the Open Door in Philadelphia, he taught at The Philadelphia School of the Bible in the fall of 1938. During that year, he wrote "For God So Loved the World" after visiting the ninety-four year-old hymn writer George C. Stebbins. Smith met Billy Graham when they were both students at Wheaton College. During their long collaboration, they founded Singspiration in 1941. After graduating from Wheaton, Smith, Graham, and George Beverly Shea started "Youth for Christ" in Chicago. --Daniel Mahraun (from livinghymns.org)

Harriett H. Pierson

Person Name: H. H. Pierson Author of "My Father Planned It All" in Favorites Number 5

Gospel Publishers

Translator of "Si triste está mi sendra" in Himnos de la Iglesia
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