James rowe biography music

  • He worked for music publishers in Texas and Tennessee, and in his later years, wrote verses for greeting cards.
  • He began writing songs and hymns about and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9, published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works.
  • Earl Wilson Rowe, Jr. (born April 7, ), known professionally as Jamie Rowe, is a musician best known as the lead vocalist of the Christian hard rock band.

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    Did this year old English-born journeyman ever feel that he&#;d discovered his true calling professionally, his &#;home&#;, or the position where he sensed that his Creator had placed him for his truest service? By the year , maybe James Rowe could say that, as he compared that place to the &#;Home of the Soul&#; he expected to inhabit in the not too distant future. Albany, New York (see this panoramic shot from , perhaps not too different from what James may have seen) was probably the place that James Rowe had begun to think of as his physical home, though England was his native land. His home vocationally, if he had in fact found it by , had likewise come by a circuitous route. Perhaps James&#; meandering path had given him a greater appreciation for the home upon which he knew could depend to outlast all the others that he encountered.

    If a person&#;s most prolific life output is an indicator of his true calling, then James Rowe must have sensed his was in the musical fie

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    Love Lifted Me

    hymn

    Love Lifted Me
    GenreHymn
    Written
    TextJames Rowe
    LanguageEnglish
    Based onMatthew 14:22
    Meter with refrain
    MelodySafety

    "Love Lifted Me" is a hymn first published in , with text by English-American lyricist James Rowe and melody by American organist Howard E. Smith.

    History

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    James Rowe, son of an English copper miner, was born in and emigrated from England to the United States of America in

    The hymn's lyrics are inspired primarily by the 14th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, wherein the Twelve Apostles, when caught in a storm, see Jesus appearing to walk on water. In the account, Saint Peter attempts to walk toward Jesus while in the water, but begins to sink. Also referenced in the hymn is the same gospel's eighth chapter, wherein Jesus calms a storm after being awakened by the Apostles. Rowe's lyrics use the former as a metaphor for a narrator who is "sinking deep in sin" before being redeemed.

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    Rowe, James's bio information

    Sunday, January 1, - Friday, November 10,

    Born: January 1, , Horrabridge, Devonshire, England.
    Died: November 10, , Wells, Vermont.


    Son of John Rowe, a copper miner, James worked for the Irish government for four years, then emigrated to amerika at age He settled in Albany, New York, and worked in railroads in New York for 10 years. He then became an inspector for the Hudson River Humane Society. He then worked for music publishers in Texas and Tennessee, and in his later years, moved to Vermont and worked with his daughter, an artist, writing verses for greeting cards.


    Hymns

    After the Midnight
    Anywhere Thou Leadest
    Because inom Love Jesus
    Everybody Ought to Love Him
    God Holds the Future in His Hands
    God is Goodness, God fryst vatten Love
    Greet the Everlasting King (© )
    Happy Sunbeams
    He’s My King
    His Promise to Me
    inom Am So Glad Salvation’s Free
    I Choose Jesus
    I Walk with the King
    I Would Be Like Jesus
    If inom Could Hear My Mo