The White Robed Angels

Will the white robed angels meet us

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Tune: THE WHITE-ROBED ANGELS
Published in 5 hymnals

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin

Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book,… Go to person page >

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First Line: Will the white robed angels meet us
Title: The White Robed Angels
Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Language: English
Refrain First Line: White robed angels, they await us
Copyright: Public Domain

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Gospel Bells #22

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Gospel Bells #22

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Songs of Praise and Prayer #308

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Songs of Praise and Prayer #308

Victory of Song #d88

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