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[Come, Spirit, come, with light divine!]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. Towner Incipit: 32153 51743 26765

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Come, Spirit, Come

Author: Mrs. Harriet Jones Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Come, Spirit, come, with light divine! Used With Tune: [Come, Spirit, come, with light divine!]

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Come, Spirit, Come

Author: Mrs. Harriet Jones Hymnal: Towner's Male Choir Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 Combined #9 (1894) First Line: Come, Spirit, come, with light divine! Languages: English Tune Title: [Come, Spirit, come, with light divine!]
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Come, Spirit, Come

Author: Mrs. Harriet Jones Hymnal: Manly Praise #26 (1900) First Line: Come, Spirit, come, with light divine! Refrain First Line: Come, Spirit, come, with light divine! Languages: English Tune Title: [Come, Spirit, come, with light divine!]
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Come, Spirit, Come

Author: Mrs. Harriet Jones Hymnal: Hymns New and Old #46 (1887) First Line: Come, Spirit, come, with light divine Refrain First Line: Come, Spirit, come with light divine Languages: English Tune Title: [Come, Spirit, come, with light divine]

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Harriet E. Jones

1823 - 1915 Person Name: Mrs. Harriet Jones Author of "Come, Spirit, Come" in Towner's Male Choir Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 Combined Harriet E. Rice Jones, 1823-1915 Born: Ap­ril 18, 1823, Pom­pey Hol­low, Onon­da­ga Coun­ty, New York. Died: 1915, Bing­ham­ton, New York. Buried: Oran Com­mun­i­ty Church Cem­e­te­ry, Pom­pey, Onon­da­ga Coun­ty, New York. Daughter of El­e­a­zer Rice, Jones lived in Onon­da­ga Coun­ty, New York. Her girl­hood was spent on a farm, re­ceiv­ing what ed­u­ca­tion the count­ry schools and one term at high school could pro­vide. She was al­ways fond of read­ing, and was a great sing­er, with a clear ring­ing voice. On Ju­ly 7, 1844, she mar­ried a son of Rev. Ze­nas Jones; her hus­band died in 1879. Her song writ­ing ca­reer b­egan when her po­e­try came to the at­ten­tion of Dr. M. J. Mun­ger, who asked if she could write some Sun­day school hymns for him. She went on to write for Daniel Town­er, J. C. Ew­ing, the Fill­more bro­thers, and others. --hymntime.com/tch

D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Composer of "[Come, Spirit, come, with light divine!]" in Towner's Male Choir Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 Combined 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
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