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[Beautiful Robe and Crown]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. W. Crist Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 32155 53216 66176 Used With Text: Beautiful Robe and Crown

Author: E. R. Latta Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: Pleasures that earth can give Refrain First Line: Beautiful robe! beautiful crown! Topics: Young Peoples Societies; Heaven; Quartets Scripture: Isaiah 61:10 Used With Tune: [Beautiful Robe and Crown]

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Beautiful Robe and Crown

Author: Eden Reeder Latta Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #400 First Line: Pleasures that earth can give Refrain First Line: Beautiful robe! Beautiful crown! Lyrics: 1. Pleasures that earth can give Never are unalloyed, Like to the happiness That is in Heav’n enjoyed! What are earth’s garments gay, Often so proudly shown? Nothing compared to you, Beautiful robe and crown! Refrain Beautiful robe! Beautiful crown! Beautiful robe! Beautiful crown! What are the mines of earth? What is the world’s renown? Nothing compared to you, Beautiful robe and crown! 2. Fashion’s adornments are Ever with money bought, Heavenly garments bright, Only by faith are sought! What are the mines of earth? What is the world’s renown? Nothing compared to you, Beautiful robe and crown! [Refrain] 3. Land of the white-robed throng And of the harp and palm, After the storms of life Thine is a blessèd calm! There may our every name Surely be written down! Striving are we for you, Beautiful robe and crown! [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Pleasures that earth can give]

Beautiful Robe and Crown

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: White Wings #58 (1896) First Line: Pleasures that earth can give Refrain First Line: Beautiful robe! beautiful crown! Languages: English Tune Title: [Pleasures that earth can give]

Beautiful Robe and Crown

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: New Century Carols #90 (1899) First Line: Pleasures that earth can give Refrain First Line: Beautiful robe! Beautiful crown! Languages: English Tune Title: [Pleasures that earth can give]

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E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Author of "Beautiful Robe and Crown" in The Search Light Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA. John Perry

Daniel Webster Crist

1857 - 1929 Person Name: D. W. Crist Composer of "[Beautiful Robe and Crown]" in The Search Light Born: November 28, 1857, New Chambersburg, Ohio. Died: March 24, 1929, Alliance, Ohio. Buried: Moultrie Chapel Cemetery, Moultrie, Ohio. Son of Robert Crist and Mary Ruff Crist, Daniel graduated from Ohio Northern University in 1882, and taught school in Columbiana and Stark County, Ohio, for 14 years. He became superintendent of the Osnaburg grade school in 1880, and for three years was superintendent at New Franklin. In 1901, he was elected to the Ohio state legislature, and became a state senator in 1905. Crist was composing as early as 1888, and at least through 1910, when he scored the FLOWER GIRL WALTZ. He worked for 30 years as a successful music publisher, starting in Moultrie, Ohio, where he also taught, farmed, and in New Alexander, served as a church music director and Sunday school superintendent. In 1915, he moved to Alliance, Ohio (where he became president of the Peoples Bank of Alliance). His works include: The Evergreen Waltz Joy and Praise for Sunday Schools, with R. A. Glenn (Cincinnati, Ohio: H. L. Benham & Company, 1886) Gospel Gleanings, 1886 Victory of Song (Moultrie, Ohio: D. W. Crist, 1892) --www.hymntime.com/tch