A Song of Heaven and Homeland
Words by Eben Rexford Music by Ira D. Sankey
"Sometimes I hear strange music,
Like none e'er heard before.”
In the year 1901 Mr. Eben Rexford, editor of The Ladies' Home Journal landscape and gardening department, wrote me, asking a donation of fifty copies of Gospel Hymns for a poor church, saying he would give me twenty new hymns in exchange. I sent the books and received the hymns, among which I found ”A Song of Heaven and Homeland,” which I soon set to music, and which I consider one of my best compositions. It was first published in The Ladies' Home Journal.