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A better day

Friends we trusted may fail

Author: Frederick M. Lehman
Published in 1 hymnal


Author: Frederick M. Lehman

Frederick Martin Lehman, 1868-1953 Born: August 7, 1868, Mecklenburg, Schwerin, Germany. Died: February 20, 1953, Pasadena, California. Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California. Lehman emigrated to America with his family at age four, settling in Iowa, where he lived most of childhood. He came to Christ at age 11, as he relates: One glad morning about eleven o’clock while walking up the country lane, skirted by a wild crab-apple grove on the right and an osage fence, with an old white-elm gate in a gap at the left, suddenly Heaven let a cornucopia of glory descend on the eleven-year old lad. The wild crab-apple grove assumed a heavenly glow and the osage fence an unearthly lustre. That old white-elm gate with… Go to person page >

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First Line: Friends we trusted may fail
Title: A better day
Author: Frederick M. Lehman
Refrain First Line: There's a better day coming
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Spiritual Songs and Hymns, for Use in All Gospel Services #d121

Spiritual Songs and Hymns, for Use in All Gospel Services #d121
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