[Savior, the day is declining]

[Savior, the day is declining]

Composer: W. H. Doane
Published in 5 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: W. H. Doane

An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Savior, the day is declining]
Composer: W. H. Doane
Incipit: 11122 23555 56533
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

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Fair as the Morning. Hymns and Tunes for Praise in the Sunday-School #135

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Hymns New and Old, No. 2 #89

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Male Chorus No. 2 #24

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Select Gems #59

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The Master's Praise #106

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