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Komm' heim!

Author: Julia H. Johnston; J. J. F. Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Weit, weit, dem Vaterhause fern Used With Tune: [Weit, weit, dem Vaterhause fern]

[Weit, weit, dem Vaterhause fern]

Appears in 12 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. Towner Incipit: 53722 16551 11671 Used With Text: Komm' heim!

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Komm' heim!

Author: Julia H. Johnston; J. J. F. Hymnal: Zions-Klänge #27 (1914) First Line: Weit, weit, dem Vaterhause fern Languages: German Tune Title: [Weit, weit, dem Vaterhause fern]

Author: J. J. F.; Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: Neue Zions-Lieder #27 (1919) First Line: Weit, weit, dem Vaterhause fern Refrain First Line: Komm' heim! Dein Heiland ruft dich Languages: German Tune Title: [Weit, weit, dem Vaterhause fern]

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D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Composer of "[Weit, weit, dem Vaterhause fern]" in Zions-Klänge Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

Julia H. Johnston

1849 - 1919 Arranger of "Komm' heim!" in Zions-Klänge 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)