Heape was a minister. His Heav’n Is Coming Nearer was copyrighted in 1894, and published in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1903.
We speculate he might have been Frederick Etherington Heape (1844–1922), who is buried in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England. A singing evangelist, he was described by some as the Sankey of Methodism.
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