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[4] [5] There are other similarities between Featherston's poem and camp-meeting songs published in the 1820s onward. [6] [7] [8] In 1876 Adoniram Gordon added music to Featherston's poem. Featherston died at the age of 27, well before his poem had become a well-known inspirational hymn. The poem is believed to have been his only publicly ...
I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus. (Occasion or theme: Faith.) September 1874, at Ormont Dessons. (P. 1874.) Published in Loyal Responses, 1878, and Life Chords, 1880. Havergal's tune, "Urbane" (Snepp's Songs of Grace and Glory, 1048), was composed for this hymn. The hymn was the author's "own favourite," and was found in her pocket Bible after ...
The hymn "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" was written by Isaac Watts, and published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707. It is significant for being an innovative departure from the early English hymn style of only using paraphrased biblical texts, although the first couplet of the second verse paraphrases Galatians 6:14a and the second couplet of the fourth verse paraphrases Gal. 6:14b.
Charlotte Elliott (18 March 1789 – 22 September 1871) was an English evangelical Anglican [1] poet, hymn writer, and editor. She is best known by two hymns, "Just As I Am" and "Thy will be done". [2] Elliott edited Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book (1834–1859) and The Invalid's Hymn book, 6th edition, 1854. [2]
His best remembered poetry is in the hymn Loved with Everlasting Love with its chorus I am His and he His mine. [ 1 ] He died in Southampton on 23 January 1876.
Of Jesus and His glory, Of Jesus and His love. Tell me the story simply, As to a little child, For I am weak and weary, And helpless and defiled. Refrain: Tell me the old, old story, Tell me the old, old story, Tell me the old, old story, Of Jesus and His love. Tell me the story slowly, That I may take it in, That wonderful redemption, God’s ...
"Just as I Am" is a Christian hymn, written by Charlotte Elliott in 1835, first appearing in the Christian Remembrancer, of which Elliott became the editor in 1836. The final verse is taken from Elliott's Hours of Sorrow Cheered and Comforted (1836).
In 1862, Bradbury found the poem "Jesus Loves Me". Bradbury wrote the music and added the chorus: "Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus Loves me ..." He died on January 7, 1868, in Bloomfield, New Jersey (now Montclair, New Jersey) at age 51. [1] He was buried in Bloomfield Cemetery in Bloomfield, New Jersey.