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Where Shall I Be?

Author: Charles Price Jones Appears in 51 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: When judgment day is drawing nigh Refrain First Line: O where shall I be when the last trumpet sounds

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[When judgment day is drawing nigh]

Appears in 28 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. P. Jones Hymnal Title: A. M. E. C. Hymnal Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51133 11316 65511 Used With Text: When Judgment Day Is Drawing Near
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[When judgment day is drawing nigh]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Robert Robertson; Charles Jones Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 33333 44432 22254 Used With Text: Where Shall I Be?

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When Judgment Day Is Drawing Near

Author: C. P. J. Hymnal: A. M. E. C. Hymnal #506 (1954) Hymnal Title: A. M. E. C. Hymnal First Line: When judgment day is drawing nigh Refrain First Line: O where shall I be when the first trumpet sounds Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:16 Languages: English Tune Title: [When judgment day is drawing nigh]
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Where Shall I Be?

Author: Anon. Hymnal: Abiding Faith #147 (1947) Hymnal Title: Abiding Faith First Line: When judgment day is drawing nigh Refrain First Line: O where shall I be when the last trumpet sounds Languages: English Tune Title: [When judgment day is drawing nigh]
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Where Shall I Be?

Author: Charles P. Jones Hymnal: African American Heritage Hymnal #196 (2001) Meter: 8.4.8.4 with refrain Hymnal Title: African American Heritage Hymnal First Line: When judgment day is drawing nigh Refrain First Line: O where shall I be when the first trumpet sounds Lyrics: 1 When judgment day is drawing nigh, Where shall I be? When God the works of men shall try, Where shall I be? When east and west the fire shall roll, Where shall I be? How will it be with my poor soul; Where shall I be? Refrain: O where shall I be when the first trumpet sounds, O where shall I be when it sounds so loud? When it sounds so loud as to wake the dead? O where shall I be when it sounds? 2 When wicked men his wrath shall see, Where shall I be? And to the rocks and mountains flee, Where shall I be? When hills and mountains flee away, Where shall I be? When all the works of men decay, Where shall I be? [Refrain] 3 When heav'n and earth as some great scroll, Where shall I be? Shall from God's angry presence roll, Where shall I be? When all the saints redeemed shall stand, Where shall I be? Forever blest at God's right hand, Where shall I be? [Refrain] 4 All trouble done, all conflict past, Where shall I be? And old Apolyon bound at last, Where shall I be? When Christ shall reign from shore to shore, Where shall I be? And peace abide forevermore, Where shall I be? [Refrain] Topics: Admonition; Everlasting Life; Jesus Christ His Ascension and Reign; Resurrection Scripture: Revelation 11:18 Languages: English Tune Title: JUDGMENT DAY

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Charles Price Jones

1865 - 1949 Person Name: Charles P. Jones Hymnal Title: African American Heritage Hymnal Author of "Where Shall I Be?" in African American Heritage Hymnal Charles Price Jones born December 9, 1865, near Rome, Georgia. He grew up in Kingston, Georgia, and attended the Baptist church. He was converted in 1884 while living in Cat Island, Arkansas. In 1885 he was called to the ministry and began preaching. In 1888 he attended Arkansas Baptist College and taught school in Grant County, Arkansas. He preached and pastored several Baptist churches. After asking God for a deeper experience of grace and fasting and praying for three days, Jones experienced a closeness with God, and in 1895, along with other Baptist holiness adherents, who taught that a second work of grace can cleanse the Christian of original sin. They started a holiness movement in the Baptist church, and he began teaching holiness in his congregation, Mount Helm Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. He faced much opposition from some members of his congregation and other Baptist churches. Eventually the church voted to remove "Baptist" and change it to "Church of Christ." For several years, Jones led a non-denominational holiness movement. In 1899 he began to write songs for his church. Most of his hymns were inspired by a scripture passage. The congregation built the Christ Temple campus which included a 1000 seat sanctuary, a printing press, a school building, and a girl's dormitory. In 1917, Jones organized Christ Temple Church in Los Angeles and moved the printing press there. He died January 19, 1949 in Los Angeles Dianne Shapiro, from Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. website and "Charles Price Jones (1865-1949) Religious Leader" by David Daniels, Mississippi Encyclopedia website (both accessed 10/9/2020)

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Person Name: Anon. Hymnal Title: Soul Inspiring Songs Author of "Where Shall I Be?" in Soul Inspiring Songs In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Hymnal Title: Soul Inspiring Songs Arranger of "[When judgment day is drawing nigh]" in Soul Inspiring Songs Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music. Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899. He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory. He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day). Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children. Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame. --www.wikipedia.org