[SHEET MUSIC] Back to home sweet home

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/ Words music by Vernon T. Stevens. Cover: Sung by Rev. Frank W. Gorman (The Singing Parson) at Fuller s Vaudeville Theatres . Melbourne : L.F. Collin Pty. Ltd., [c.1920]. Series: Collin s popular sixpenny edition . Folio, front cover with photographic portrait of Frank Gorman and original owner s name Vera Bangs (light foxing and edge tears), 3 pp, music notation (arrangement for voice and piano). Rev. Frank W. Gorman was an American religious minister from Oregon who toured Australia in 1920. The following article was published in The Advertiser (Adelaide), 16 February 1920: REV. FRANK W. GORMAN. THE SINGING PARSON. The first thing that strikes one about the Singing Parson (the Rev. Frank Walter Gorman), who opened for a season at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday, is the intensely practical nature of his religion. His ideal is the personality of Jesus Christ for the people as opposed to the Church s view. In an interview on Saturday morning Mr. Gorman said, My sermons are likely to scare people, as also is my theology, but there is nothing rude, nothing coarse, no thing gross in it. It is a plain heartspoken message to the soul of the listener with a punch in it to send it home. If people come to listen to me who are afraid of home truths they had better stay away. I don t want to frighten people, but I do want to straighten out the Church, and you know it does sorely need straightening out in every direction. In far too many churches the man of means has pitched his tent,

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