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Display Title: If we only had the time First Line: In the trying race of life Author: James Rowe Date: 1913
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If We Only Had the Time
In the trying race of life, many souls we meet each day
Author: James RoweTune: [In the trying race of life, many souls we meet each day]
Published in 4 hymnals
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 >Instances
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Glorious Hymns #66
Display Title: If We Only Had the Time First Line: In the trying race of life, many souls we meet each day Tune Title: [In the trying race of life, many souls we meet each day] Author: James Rowe Date: 1908
Glorious Hymns #66
Songs of the King #184
Display Title: If We Only Had the Time First Line: In the trying race of life, many souls we meet each day Tune Title: [In the trying race of life, many souls we meet each day] Author: James Rowe Date: 1906
Songs of the King #184
The Evangel #d70
Display Title: If we only had the time First Line: In the trying race of life Author: James Rowe Date: 1909
The Evangel #d70
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