I Wonder What My Name Will Be?

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If my soul be true until I see

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [If my soul be true until I see]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 If my soul be true until I see
My Savior on His throne,
O I wonder what my name will be
Engraved upon the stone?

Refrain:
O what will be my name above,
If I am true and trust His love?

2 If I overcome by love divine,
His Gospel glad proclaim,
What uplifting rapture will be mine,
When I behold my name! [Refrain]

3 I will follow Jesus to the end,
And His commandments heed;
On my help my Savior may depend,
For I that name would read. [Refrain]

4 But I wonder what my name will be,
Engraved with perfect love;
It will make me fight for victory
Until I’m called above. [Refrain]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16034

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Author: James Rowe

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) Go to person page >

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First Line:	If my soul be true until I see
Title:	I Wonder What My Name Will Be?
Author:	James Rowe
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O what will be my name above
Copyright:	Public Domain