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[Ye who now sit in darkness]

[Ye who now sit in darkness]

Composer: Nellie Place Chandler
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: Nellie Place Chandler

Nellie Place Chandler began playing the organ in church and Sunday school when she was twelve, she spent time as chorister, organist and choir director. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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Title: [Ye who now sit in darkness]
Composer: Nellie Place Chandler
Incipit: 32341 32434 54332
Copyright: Public Domain

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