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O Jesus, I Have Promised

Author: John E. Bode Appears in 621 hymnals Topics: Song of Experience Used With Tune: [O Jesus, I have promised]

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 2,304 hymnals Topics: Song of Experience First Line: Alas! And did my Saviour bleed Refrain First Line: At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light Used With Tune: [Alas! And did my Saviour bleed]

All the Way My Saviour Leads Me

Author: Fanny Crosby Appears in 317 hymnals Topics: Song of Experience Used With Tune: [All the way my Saviour leads me]

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[I serve a risen Saviour]

Appears in 125 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. H. Ackley Topics: Song of Experience Incipit: 55661 16355 66351 Used With Text: He Lives

[Alas! And did my Saviour bleed]

Appears in 360 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. E. Hudson Topics: Song of Experience Incipit: 13213 54356 54321 Used With Text: At the Cross

[Redeemed! how I love to proclaim it!]

Appears in 134 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Topics: Song of Experience Incipit: 55555 67151 22221 Used With Text: Redeemed

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Blessed Assurance

Author: Fanny Crosby Hymnal: Gospel Melodies and Evangelistic Hymns #76 (1944) Topics: Song of Experience First Line: Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Refrain First Line: This is my story, this is my song Languages: English Tune Title: [Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!]

By Grace Alone

Author: Ida Scott Taylor Hymnal: Gospel Melodies and Evangelistic Hymns #95 (1944) Topics: Song of Experience First Line: A message sweet is borne to me Refrain First Line: O glorious song, that all day long Languages: English Tune Title: [A message sweet is borne to me]

Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken

Author: Henry F. Lyte Hymnal: Gospel Melodies and Evangelistic Hymns #56 (1944) Topics: Song of Experience Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus, I my cross have taken]

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Phoebe Palmer Knapp

1839 - 1908 Person Name: Mrs. Jos. F. Knapp Topics: Song of Experience Composer of "[Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!]" in Gospel Melodies and Evangelistic Hymns As a young girl Phoebe Palmer Knapp (b. New York, NY, 1839; d. Poland Springs, ME, 1908) displayed great musical talent; she composed and sang children’s song at an early age. The daughter of the Methodist evangelist Walter C. Palmer, she was married to John Fairfield Knapp at the age of sixteen. Her husband was a founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and after his death, she shared her considerable inherited wealth with various charitable organizations. She composed over five hundred gospel songs, of which the tunes for “Blessed Assurance” and “Open the Gates of the Temple” are still popular today. Bert Polman

William T. Sleeper

1819 - 1904 Person Name: W. T. Sleeper Topics: Song of Experience Author of "Jesus, I Come" in Gospel Melodies and Evangelistic Hymns Sleeper, W. T. is given in I. D. Sankey’s Sacred Songs & Solos, 1881, as the author of “A ruler once came to Jesus by night” (Need for the New Birth). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =============== William T. Sleeper (1819-1904)] Born: February 9, 1819, Danbury, New Hampshire. Died: September 24, 1904, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Sleeper attended Phillips-Exeter Academy, the University of Vermont, and the Andover Theological Seminary. After ordination, he conducted home ministry work in Massachusetts and Maine. He later became pastor of the Summer Street Congregational Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he served over 30 years. His works include: The Rejected King, and Hymns of Jesus, 1883. -- www.hymntime.com

George C. Stebbins

1846 - 1945 Person Name: Geo. C. Stebbins Topics: Song of Experience Composer of "[Out of my bondage, sorrow and night]" in Gospel Melodies and Evangelistic Hymns Stebbins studied music in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, then became a singing teacher. Around 1869, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, to join the Lyon and Healy Music Company. He also became the music director at the First Baptist Church in Chicago. It was in Chicago that he met the leaders in the Gospel music field, such as George Root, Philip Bliss, & Ira Sankey. At age 28, Stebbins moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became music director at the Claredon Street Baptist Church; the pastor there was Adoniram Gordon. Two years later, Stebbins became music director at Tremont Temple in Boston. Shortly thereafter, he became involved in evangelism campaigns with Moody and others. Around 1900, Stebbins spent a year as an evangelist in India, Egypt, Italy, Palestine, France and England. (www.hymntime.com/tch)

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