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Display Title: When His Wounded Hand Touched Mine First Line: Weary, worn and spent, fill'd with discontent Tune Title: [Weary, worn and spent, fill'd with discontent] Author: James Rowe Date: 1948
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When His Wounded Hand Touched Mine
Weary, worn and spent, filled with discontent
Author: James RoweTune: [Weary, worn and spent, filled with discontent]
Published in 2 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 >Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
