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When All the Saints Get Home

Author: Harriet Jones Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: O what a meeting that will be, In that sweet time to come Refrain First Line: Home, home

[Oh, what a meeting that will be]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D B. Towner Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13332 21112 22231 Used With Text: When All the Saints Get Home

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Author: Mrs. Harriet Jones Hymnal: Crowning Glory No. 1 #124 (1890) First Line: Oh, what a meeting that will be Refrain First Line: Home, home Lyrics: 1 Oh, what a meeting that will be In that sweet time to come, When we shall gain the victory, And all the saints get home. Chorus: Home, home, The saints' eternal home, Oh, what a meeting that will be, When all the saints get home. 2 Oh, what a shout will fill the air When we the King behold, Who waits to bid us welcome there Within His blessed fold. [Chorus} 3 Oh, how the upper courts will ring When we our loved ones greet, In that bright home where angels sing, And all the ransomed meet. [Chorus] 4 When close to Jesus, the divine, We stand among the throng, Oh, what ecstatic bliss, to join In the redemption song. [Chorus] 5 The battle o'er, the cross laid down, And safe across the flood, With spotless robes, and shining crowns, All thro' the precious blood. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, what a meeting that will be]

When all the Saints get Home

Author: Mrs. Harriet Jones Hymnal: Hymns New and Old #154 (1887) First Line: Oh, what a meeting that will be Refrain First Line: Home, home Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, what a meeting that will be]

When All the Saints Get Home

Author: Mrs. Harriet Jones Hymnal: The Gospel Choir #89 (1885) First Line: Oh, what a meeting that will be Refrain First Line: Home, sweet home, blessed home Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, what a meeting that will be]

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D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Person Name: D B. Towner Composer of "[Oh, what a meeting that will be]" in Crowning Glory No. 1 Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

Harriet E. Jones

1823 - 1915 Person Name: Mrs. Harriet Jones Author of "When All the Saints Get Home" in Crowning Glory No. 1 Harriet E. Rice Jones, 1823-1915 Born: April 18, 1823, Pompey Hollow, Onondaga County, New York. Died: 1915, Binghamton, New York. Buried: Oran Community Church Cemetery, Pompey, Onondaga County, New York. Daughter of Eleazer Rice, Jones lived in Onondaga County, New York. Her girlhood was spent on a farm, receiving what education the country schools and one term at high school could provide. She was always fond of reading, and was a great singer, with a clear ringing voice. On July 7, 1844, she married a son of Rev. Zenas Jones; her husband died in 1879. Her song writing career began when her poetry came to the attention of Dr. M. J. Munger, who asked if she could write some Sunday school hymns for him. She went on to write for Daniel Towner, J. C. Ewing, the Fillmore brothers, and others. --hymntime.com/tch