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[Foes may betide me]

Appears in 9 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Howard E. Smith Incipit: 35176 24765 35172 Used With Text: I Shall Reach Home

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I Shall Reach Home

Author: James Rowe Appears in 15 hymnals First Line: Foes may betide me Refrain First Line: He will not grieve me Used With Tune: [Foes may betide me]

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I Shall Reach Home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Christian Choruses #37 (1936) First Line: Foes may betide me Refrain First Line: He will not grieve me Languages: English Tune Title: [Foes may betide me]
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I Shall Reach Home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Gospel Echoes #73 (1949) First Line: Foes may betide me Refrain First Line: He will not grieve me Languages: English Tune Title: [Foes may betide me]
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I Shall Reach Home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Hallelujahs #75 (1922) First Line: Foes may betide me Refrain First Line: He will not grieve me Languages: English Tune Title: [Foes may betide me]

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Howard E. Smith

1863 - 1918 Composer of "[Foes may betide me]" in Gospel Echoes

James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "I Shall Reach Home" in Gospel Echoes Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. 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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