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Walking with my Savior, to my home above

Author: James Rowe Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Walking with Christ to my palace of light

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Walking with my Savior, to my home above

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Quartet Song Book No. 5 #d92 (1948) First Line: Walking with Christ to my palace of light

Walking with my Savior, to my home above

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Songs of the Blessed Hope #d240 (1927) First Line: Walking with Christ to my palace of light

1865 - 1933 Author of "Walking with my Savior, to my home above" 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)