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[Since I started on the upward way]

[Since I started on the upward way]

Composer: Mrs. Bessie F. Hatcher
Published in 3 hymnals


Composer: Mrs. Bessie F. Hatcher

Bessie Frances Simmons Hatcher was apparently an actress who got converted and called to preach. She was a minister in the Pilgrim Holiness Church in the Pennsylvania/New Jersey district, although she did pastor Free Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist congregations at some point. Her most famous songs were "Keep on the Firing Line", "I Would Not Want to Miss It", and "Let Me Burn Out for Thee", in addition to "He Will Not Fail Me Now". She married William Hatcher. She was born March 29 1880 and passed in June 1960 in Ocean County New Jersey. Old newspaper accounts allude to her conversion story, but so far have found no accounts of it. The district journal of 1961 called her "an old warrior of the Cross". James Keeton  Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: [Since I started on the upward way]
Composer: Mrs. Bessie F. Hatcher
Incipit: 33321 35655 44446
Copyright: Public Domain
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Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)
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Glory Songs #9

Glory Songs #9
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Songs of Mounting Up No. 2 #7

Songs of Mounting Up No. 2 #7
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Soul Stirring Songs #85

Soul Stirring Songs #85
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