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[What is making life so sweet and bright to me?]

Appears in 15 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. Edie Marks Incipit: 56543 41332 22321 Used With Text: Just the Love of Jesus
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Just the Love of Jesus

Author: James Rowe Appears in 24 hymnals First Line: What is making life so sweet and bright to me? Refrain First Line: Just the love of Jesus, O how Sweet Topics: Love Used With Tune: [What is making life so sweet and bright to me?]
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Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Coronation Hymns #51 (1913) First Line: What is making life so sweet and bright to me? Refrain First Line: Just the love of Jesus, O how sweet! Lyrics: 1 What is making life so sweet and bright to me? Just the love of Jesus, just the love of Jesus! What has made my soul so peaceful, pure and free? Just the love of Jesus, my Savior! Chorus: Just the love of Jesus, O how sweet! Just the love of Jesus makes my joy complete; What will guide my soul to that safe retreat? Just the love of Jesus, my Savior! 2 What affords me shelter when the tempest sweeps? Just the love of Jesus, just the love of Jesus! What, from day to day, my soul from evil keeps? Just the love of Jesus, my Savior! [Chorus] 3 What will help me triumph in this earthly strife? Just the love of Jesus, just the love of Jesus! What is more to me than wealth, or fame, or life? Just the love of Jesus, my Savior! [Chorus] 4 What will lead me safe across the silent sea? Just the love of Jesus, just the love of Jesus! What will be my song thro' all eternity? Just the love of Jesus, my Savior! [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [What is making life so sweet and bright to me?]
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Author: James Rowe Hymnal: The New Praiseworthy #74 (1916) First Line: What is making life so sweet and bright to me? Refrain First Line: Just the love of Jesus, O how sweet! Lyrics: 1 What is making life so sweet and bright to me? Just the love of Jesus, just the love of Jesus! What has made my soul so peaceful, pure and free? Just the love of Jesus, my Savior! Chorus: Just the love of Jesus, O how sweet! Just the love of Jesus makes my joy complete; What will guide my soul to that safe retreat? Just the love of Jesus, my Savior! 2 What affords me shelter when the tempest sweeps? Just the love of Jesus, just the love of Jesus! What, from day to day, my soul from evil keeps? Just the love of Jesus, my Savior! [Chorus] 3 What will help me triumph in this earthly strife? Just the love of Jesus, just the love of Jesus! What is more to me than wealth, or fame, or life? Just the love of Jesus, my Savior! [Chorus] 4 What will lead me safe across the silent sea? Just the love of Jesus, just the love of Jesus! What will be my song thro' all eternity? Just the love of Jesus, my Savior! [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [What is making life so sweet and bright to me]
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Author: James Rowe Hymnal: The Very Best #5 (1911) First Line: What is making life so sweet and bright to me? Refrain First Line: Just the love of Jesus, O how sweet! Languages: English Tune Title: [What is making life so sweet and bright to me?]
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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "Just the Love of Jesus" in The New Praiseworthy 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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William Edie Marks

1872 - 1954 Person Name: Wm. Edie Marks Composer of "[What is making life so sweet and bright to me]" in The New Praiseworthy Born: July 1872, Delaware (probably Wilmington) Died: November 20, 1954, Wilmington, Delaware. Buried: Lombardy Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware. Marks was ap­par­ent­ly liv­ing in Wilm­ing­ton, Del­a­ware, in 1913. His works in­clude: Cream of Song, with Le­an­der Pick­ett & O. B. Cul­pep­per & (Lou­is­ville, Ken­tucky: Pick­ett Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1906) Tears and Tri­umphs No. 4, with Le­an­der Pick­ett & Ben­ja­min Butts (Lou­is­ville, Ken­tucky: Pen­te­cost­al Pub­lish­ing Company, 1910) Noted Hymns, 1927 (ed­it­or) Lyrics-- Christmas Joy Tasting the Joys Trying to Be More like Je­sus We Shall Hear Him Say, "Well Done" Music-- Best Thing I Ev­er Did, The End Is Not Yet, The I Am Go­ing to Con­tin­ue In the Morn­ing We Shall See It Is Mine Jesus Sa­tis­fies Jesus Took the Bur­den Off Keep Tell­ing It Last Mile of the Way, The Let Je­sus Re­move It To­day Lift Thy Face to the Light! Rapture In­deed! Tell It Wher­ev­er You Go When We Use Our Tal­ents You Ought to Know Him http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/r/k/marks_we.htm
William Edie Marks
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