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The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal is the official hymnal of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is widely used by English-speaking Adventist congregations. It consists of words and music to 695 hymns including traditional favorites from the earlier Church Hymnal that it replaced, American folk hymns, modern gospel songs, compositions by Adventists, contemporary hymns, and 224 congregational ...
Celebration Hymnal: songs and hymns for worship, published by Word Music/Integrity Music (1997). [647] This is different from Celebration Hymnal for Everyone published by McCrimmon Publishing Co Ltd. (1994, 2005 with Supplement). Christian Life Hymnal, Hendrickson Publishers (2006) Favorite Hymns of Praise, Hope Publishing (1967)
The hymn appears as number 46 in the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal and number 165 of the hymnbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.. It has also been published in the 1978 Hymns of Praise edited by Reuel Lemmons; the 1971 Songs of the Church and the 1990 Songs of the Church 21st Century Edition both edited by Alton H. Howard; both the 1978 and 1983 Church Gospel Songs and ...
"I'm on my way (and I won't turn back)" is a traditional Gospel song. [1] It is described a typical "going-to-Canaan" song; and possibly an Underground Railroad song.[2]The lyrics begin "I'm on my way and I won't turn back, I'm on my way and I won't turn back, I'm on my way and I won't turn back; I'm on my way, great God, I'm on my way.
In the 20th century, it was included in the Baptist Hymnal (1956, and subsequent editions), Hymns for the Living Church (1974), Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985), and New Redemption Hymnal (1986), among others. [1] In 1910, the hymn was also published in a German translation, "Aug in Auge vor ihm stehen", in Evangeliums-Sänger. [1]
Annie Rebekah Smith (March 16, 1828 – July 26, 1855) [1] was an early American Seventh-day Adventist hymnist, and sister of the Adventist pioneer Uriah Smith.. She has three hymns in the current (6,8,&9 below), and had 10 hymns in the previous Seventh-day Adventist Church Hymnal.
In 1893, it was included in the Seventh-day Adventist hymnal as #1145. [13] An informal survey of late-19th century and early-20th century gospel song books found the song included in a small number of collections. [4] [3] [5] More recent research shows that it was included in 96 hymnals between 1875 and 1965. [14]
During the 20th century, this hymn was not widely used in congregational worship. Diehl's index to a large number of hymnals from 1900 to 1966 indicates that only one hymnal included it: the 1941 edition of The Church Hymnal of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, titled "My Life Flows On" (hymn no. 265).