1897–1966

Introduction

Born: De­cem­ber 26, 1897, War­ri­or, Ala­ba­ma.

Died: Ap­ril 13, 1966, Ala­ba­ma.

Buried: New Pros­pect Bap­tist Church Ce­me­te­ry, Jas­per, Ala­ba­ma.

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Biography

Oren was the son of Os­car Hay­den Par­ris and Ada Ovel­ia Mor­ris, and hus­band of Mae L. Lew­is.

He was in­duct­ed in­to the Gos­pel Mu­sic Hall of Fame in 1992.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All Ye That Bear a Hea­vy Bur­den
  2. Although I Have Trou­bles
  3. As We Tra­vel the Bless­ed Home­ward Road
  4. At Dawn of Morn­ing I’ll Lay All Bur­dens Down
  5. Blessed Sav­ior Paid Our Ran­som, The
  6. Blessed Sav­ior Suf­fered, The
  7. Christ Is Com­ing Back to Reign
  8. Dark Stor­my Clouds Were Ov­er­head
  9. Do Not Weep for Me, My Bro­ther
  10. Every Day, Each Day, All the Way
  11. For Too Long, My Sin­ner Friend
  12. Four Hun­dred Fif­ty Pro­phets
  13. God’s Work­ers Through­out the World Are Long­ing
  14. Have You Been to Je­sus?
  15. Held in Egypt’s Bond­age
  16. I Am Just a Pil­grim Stran­ger
  17. I Am Serv­ing Je­sus Now
  18. I Am So Hap­py Each Day and Each Hour
  19. I Have Wan­dered Far from the Shel­ter­ing Fold
  20. I Know That in Some Bright, Dist­ant Clime
  21. I Once Was Bo­thered with a Bur­den
  22. I Was a Sin­ner Far As­tray
  23. I Was All Lost in a Val­ley of Fear
  24. If We Would Wish for More
  25. If You Love the Sav­ior
  26. I’m in the Sav­ior’s Hap­py Way
  27. I’m Liv­ing Now in Ca­naan
  28. In the Har­vest We Should Be Reap­ing
  29. In the Long Ago There Lived a Lit­tle Shep­herd Boy
  30. I’ve Felt the Cold Bar­ren Coun­try
  31. I’ve Nev­er Been in the Fie­ry Fur­nace
  32. Jesus Is My Pi­lot on Life’s Roll­ing Tide
  33. Jesus, My Sav­ior, Bless­ed Re­deem­er
  34. Let Us All Re­joice and Praise the Lord
  35. Long I Have Been Seek­ing a Home
  36. Long I Have Been Tra­vel­ing
  37. Love Such as Nev­er in the Past Had Been
  38. Mid the Strife and Woe of This Life
  39. Music Will Sweet­ly Fill
  40. My Mind Goes Back to the Time
  41. My Thoughts Are Turn­ing To­day
  42. O We Are On­ly Pil­grims
  43. Often I Hear Voic­es So Clear
  44. Often Times We Have Our Sor­rows Here
  45. On the Ris­ing Day, We Will Speed Away
  46. On the Stor­my Banks We Stand
  47. Once I Was Bur­dened
  48. Once I Was Stray­ing Far Out in the Cold
  49. Once My Soul Was Strug­gling
  50. Our Home Once Was Bright and Fair
  51. Pilgrims for Je­sus, We Are Hap­py and Free
  52. Since My Sav­ior Came and Found Me
  53. Since My Sins Have Been For­giv­en
  54. Some Day, Glad Day, on Hea­ven’s Gold­en Shore
  55. Some Day I’ll Lay My Bur­den Down
  56. Some Hap­py Day My Soul Will Rise
  57. Soon Our Tra­vel­ing Days Will Be End­ed
  58. Storms of Life Are Rag­ing
  59. There Is a Land in Worlds Above
  60. There Will Come a Leav­ing Day
  61. There’s a Hap­py New Feel­ing
  62. Thou, O Lord, Hath Kind­ly Led Me
  63. Though You Must Be Leav­ing
  64. Time Has Wrought So Ma­ny Changes
  65. Today I’ve Changed My Dwell­ing Place
  66. Up Cal­vary’s Moun­tain Our Sav­ior Bore
  67. Upon the Home­ward Road
  68. We Are Look­ing for the Dawn
  69. We Are Now a Cheer­ful Band
  70. We Are Oft­en Bowed with a Load of Sor­row
  71. We Shall Reach the Ci­ty Bright
  72. We’ve a Bright New Home
  73. We’ve Made a Long and Te­di­ous Jour­ney
  74. When I’m Bowed with Care and Trou­ble Here
  75. When Our Work Is End­ed and We Have As­cend­ed
  76. While Here We Tra­vel as a Pil­grim

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