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Reverend Charles Albert Tindley memorial, Eden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA, 2009.
Credit: Courtesy of Susan Kane
One of the fathers of American gospel music, Charles Albert Tindley published more than forty songs during his life time. Five of them, including "Stand By Me," (1905) and "Beams of Heaven as I Go," (1906), appear in the United Methodist Hymnal.