What the Number of Souls

DESCRIPTION: Response: "Oh the number of souls." Leader's lines: "This is the number, Number of souls," "Jesus died for me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage02)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
RECORDINGS:
Emile Paul, Carl Monsegui, Allan Lovelace, "What the Number of Souls" (on WITrinidadVillage02)
NOTES [73 words]: The WITrinidadVillage02 recording features hand-clapping and bell-ringing, an early and current feature of Spiritual Baptist worship (see Eudora Thomas, A History of the Shouter Baptists in Trinidad and Tobago (Tacarigua: Calaloux Publications, 1987), pp. 17, 23). - BS
I don't know what the "Number of Souls" is supposed to be, but given the context and the source, I am reminded of the 144,000 redeemed souls of Rev. 7:4 and 14:1. - RBW
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