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[Jesus I long to be more like Thee]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Frank Grammer Incipit: 54651 23216 71216 Used With Text: Hide Me Behind the Cross

Author: James Rowe Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Jesus I long to be more like Thee Refrain First Line: Hide me behind the cross, dear Lord Used With Tune: [Jesus I long to be more like Thee]

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Hide Me Behind the Cross

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Favorite Songs of the Church. no. 2 #93 (1948) First Line: Jesus I long to be more like Thee Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus I long to be more like Thee]

Hide Me Behind the Cross

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Universal Songs and Hymns #120 (1949) First Line: Jesus I long to be more like Thee Refrain First Line: Hide me behind the cross, dear Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus I long to be more like Thee]

People

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "Hide Me Behind the Cross" in Universal Songs and Hymns 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)

Frank Grammer

1882 - 1949 Composer of "[Jesus I long to be more like Thee]" in Universal Songs and Hymns George Washington Franklin Grammer born in Arkansas, died in California. Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)