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Rejoice, the Lord Is King! -Charles Wesley
It’s difficult to imagine that Charles Wesley authored more than six thousand hymns when so much of his life was spent on horseback as a traveling preacher. As he...
Rejoice, the Lord Is King! -Charles Wesley
It’s difficult to imagine that Charles Wesley authored more than six thousand hymns when so much of his life was spent on horseback as a traveling preacher. As he...
Safe in the Arms of Jesus -Fanny J. Crosby
Fanny Crosby was America’s best-known hymn and gospel song author. Fanny had always written poems, but when famous composer William Bradbury asked her to write her first hymn at...
Safe in the Arms of Jesus -Fanny J. Crosby
Fanny Crosby was America’s best-known hymn and gospel song author. Fanny had always written poems, but when famous composer William Bradbury asked her to write her first hymn at...
O Lord! I Would Delight in Thee -John Ryland
John Ryland, the author of “O Lord! I Would Delight in Thee,” is unknown to most Christians, and he would have wanted it that way. He was born in 1753,...
O Lord! I Would Delight in Thee -John Ryland
John Ryland, the author of “O Lord! I Would Delight in Thee,” is unknown to most Christians, and he would have wanted it that way. He was born in 1753,...
I Am Coming, Lord! -Lewis Hartsough
Both the words and the tune of this song expressing one’s desire to surrender to Christ were written by Lewis Hartsough. He graduated from seminary in 1852, was ordained as...
I Am Coming, Lord! -Lewis Hartsough
Both the words and the tune of this song expressing one’s desire to surrender to Christ were written by Lewis Hartsough. He graduated from seminary in 1852, was ordained as...
O, How I Love Jesus -Frederick Whitfield
The words of this song of testimony were written by Frederick Whitfield when he was studying theology at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He became a prominent British minister...
O, How I Love Jesus -Frederick Whitfield
The words of this song of testimony were written by Frederick Whitfield when he was studying theology at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He became a prominent British minister...
Eternal Source of Every Joy! -Philip Doddridge
The author of this hymn, Philip Doddridge, was born in 1702 in London, the youngest of twenty children. Philip was so small at birth that the nurse, thinking he...
Eternal Source of Every Joy! -Philip Doddridge
The author of this hymn, Philip Doddridge, was born in 1702 in London, the youngest of twenty children. Philip was so small at birth that the nurse, thinking he...
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