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Wherever you wander, come home

Author: Ina Duley Ogdon Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Your Savior has written a message to you Refrain First Line: Come home, come home, wherever you wander

[Your Savior has written a message to you]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Used With Text: Wherever You Wander, Come Home

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Wherever You Wander, Come Home

Author: Ina Duley Ogdon Hymnal: Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services #178 (1917) First Line: Your Savior has written a message to you Refrain First Line: Come home! Come home! Lyrics: 1 Your Savior has written a message to you, It follows wherever you roam, And this is the message so blessed and true, “Wherever you wander, come home!” Refrain: Come home! Come home! Wherever you wander, come home! Wherever you are, and wherever you roam, Your Savior is calling: “Come home!” 2 No matter how dark is the stain of your sin, His love still entreats you to come; In Him to find healing, new life to begin, “Wherever you wander, come home!” [Refrain] 3 He knows you are driven and lost in the night, Afar on the wild billows’ foam; For you is still burning, the home-guiding light, “Wherever you wander, come home!” [Refrain] 4 His mercy and pardon, His peace and His love, He sends you wherever you roam; What more can He offer, your welcome to prove, “Wherever you wander, come home!” [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Your Savior has written a message to you]

Wherever You Wander, Come Home

Author: Ina Duley Ogdon Hymnal: Gospel Hymns and Songs #178 (1918) First Line: Your Savior has written a message to you Refrain First Line: Come home! Come home Languages: English Tune Title: [Your Savior has written a message to you]

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Ina Duley Ogdon

1872 - 1964 Author of "Wherever You Wander, Come Home" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Ogdon, Ina Duley. (Rossville, Illinois, 1872--May 18, 1964, Toledo, Ohio). Disciples of Christ. Granddaughter of a Methodist minister, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Duley. Married James Ogdon. She wrote: "My father went with my mother to her church after his marriage to her, so I was brought up in the church of the Disciples of Christ." She wrote over three thousand hymns, anthems, cantatas, and miscellaneous verse. Her hymns include "Brighten the corner where you are," 1912; "Carry your cross with a smile," 1916; "My Lord abides;" "When you know Jesus too;" "Tell Jesus;" "Lighten the burden for someone;" "I have been saved," Her first hymn was "Open wide the window." Composer Charles Gabriel wrote, "Loved by thousands who have sung her hymns, she shrinks from celebrity in the knowledge that her songs are God-given and that without Him she could do nothing." See: Beattie, David J. (1931). The Romance of Sacred Song. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, Ltd. The Presbyterian Survey November 1952. The Toledo Blade, 19 May 1964. --Ernest K. Emurian, DNAH Archives Photo from Joseph Gardner collection from website "Ina Duly Ogdon Home" by Melissa Archibald (http://www.freewebs.com/marchi/inaphotosarticles.htm)

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Your Savior has written a message to you]" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman