Song writer, composer, and publisher. He wrote, "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling," "Jesus is All the World to Me," "Lead Me Gently Home, Father," and "There's a Great Day Coming." "Softly and Tenderly" hymn was sung in the Academy Award winning movie Trip to Bountiful (1985), and at a memorial service for American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, on April 8, 1968, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia.
Also he also wrote "Have I Done Any Good?" and "Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel," two hymns found in the LDS (Mormon) hymn book.
Also he also wrote "Have I Done Any Good?" and "Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel," two hymns found in the LDS (Mormon) hymn book.
Song writer, composer, and publisher. He wrote, "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling," "Jesus is All the World to Me," "Lead Me Gently Home, Father," and "There's a Great Day Coming." "Softly and Tenderly" hymn was sung in the Academy Award winning movie Trip to Bountiful (1985), and at a memorial service for American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, on April 8, 1968, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia.
Also he also wrote "Have I Done Any Good?" and "Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel," two hymns found in the LDS (Mormon) hymn book.
Also he also wrote "Have I Done Any Good?" and "Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel," two hymns found in the LDS (Mormon) hymn book.
Gravesite Details
He died in New York h/o Elizabeth
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