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[There's a land of wondrous beauty!]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jno. R. Bryant Incipit: 55117 21512 32125 Used With Text: Don't You Want to Be There

Author: E. R. Latta Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: There's a land of wondrous beauty! Refrain First Line: How sweet 'twill be around His throne Used With Tune: [There's a land of wondrous beauty!]

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Don't You Want to Be There

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: The Revival No. 2 #166 (1896) First Line: There's a land of wondrous beauty! Refrain First Line: How sweet 'twill be around His throne Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a land of wondrous beauty!]

Don't You Want to Be There?

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Glowing Songs #166 (1895) First Line: There's a land of wondrous beauty! Refrain First Line: How sweet 'twill be around His throne Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a land of wondrous beauty!]

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E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Author of "Don't You Want to Be There" in The Revival No. 2 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