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[From my Father's home I wandered]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 55111 31611 55132 Used With Text: Homeward Bound (Rowe)

Author: James Rowe Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: From my Father's home I wandered Refrain First Line: Homeward bound Lyrics: 1. From my Father’s home I wandered, For my feet were prone to stray, But my Savior sought and found me, And I’m homeward bound today. Refrain Homeward bound, I’m homeward bound today; I’m homeward bound, Praising Jesus all the way. 2. I was lost in sin’s dark valley, Following the downward way, But my Savior saw my danger, And I’m homeward bound today. [Refrain] 3. I was sin-stained, I was weeping, But my stains are washed away; And, rejoicing in my Savior, I am homeward bound today. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [From my Father's home I wandered] Text Sources: Joyful Praise, by Charles H. Gabriel (Cincinnati, Ohio: Jennings & Graham, 1902), number 1

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Homeward Bound (Rowe)

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #2536 First Line: From my Father's home I wandered Refrain First Line: Homeward bound Lyrics: 1. From my Father’s home I wandered, For my feet were prone to stray, But my Savior sought and found me, And I’m homeward bound today. Refrain Homeward bound, I’m homeward bound today; I’m homeward bound, Praising Jesus all the way. 2. I was lost in sin’s dark valley, Following the downward way, But my Savior saw my danger, And I’m homeward bound today. [Refrain] 3. I was sin-stained, I was weeping, But my stains are washed away; And, rejoicing in my Savior, I am homeward bound today. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [From my Father's home I wandered]

Homeward Bound

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Joyful Praise #1 (1902) First Line: From my Father's home I wandered Languages: English Tune Title: [From my Father's home I wandered]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "Homeward Bound (Rowe)" in The Cyber Hymnal 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)

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Composer of "[From my Father's home I wandered]" in The Cyber Hymnal Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman