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Watching for the King

Author: Julia H. Johnston Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: As I fare on my way to my daily task Refrain First Line: Watching, watching each day for my Savior's call Used With Tune: [As I fare on my way to my daily task]
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[As I fare on my way to my daily task]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: M. J. Babbitt Incipit: 54565 36653 44345 Used With Text: Watching for the King
[As I fare on my way to my daily task]

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Watching for the King

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: The Herald #112 (1915) First Line: As I fare on my way to my daily task Refrain First Line: Watching, watching each day for my Savior's call Languages: English Tune Title: [As I fare on my way to my daily task]
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Watching for the King

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: Treasury of Song #230 (1917) First Line: As I fare on my way to my daily task Refrain First Line: Watching, watching each day for my Savior's call Languages: English Tune Title: [As I fare on my way to my daily task]
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Watching for the King

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: Select Gospel songs #d7 (1916) First Line: As I fare on my way to my daily task Refrain First Line: Watching, watching each day for my Savior's call Languages: English
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Julia H. Johnston

1849 - 1919 Author of "Watching for the King" in Treasury of Song Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
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M. J. Babbitt

1870 - 1937 Composer of "[As I fare on my way to my daily task]" in Treasury of Song M. J. Babbitt was born in 1870 in Fulton County, Ill. He married Eva Roe in 1892. He was a singer who traveled as part of a team to various evangelistic meetings with the Southern Baptist Convention. He died in 1937 in Galesburg, Ill. Dianne Shapiro
M. J. Babbitt
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