Resting by the Well

We are strangers and sojourners traveling to the better land

Author: Birdie Bell
Tune: [We are strangers and sojourners traveling to the better land]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Birdie Bell

C. Louise Bell, also known a Birdie Bell, was born, raised and lived in New York city. She began writing hymns when she was sixteen years old. She is the author of more than 500 hymns, 200 religious poems, and 200 Christmas and Easter lyrics, as well as short stories, and articles. She wrote under the name of Birdie Bell, which is what her family called her. 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 >

Text Information

First Line: We are strangers and sojourners traveling to the better land
Title: Resting by the Well
Author: Birdie Bell
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Are you resting by the side of the well today
Publication Date: 1896
Copyright: Public Domain

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Songs Tried and Proved #136

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Spiritualist Hymnal #73

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