William Hiram Foulkes › Hymnals

Born: June 26, 1877, Quin­cy, Mi­chi­gan.
Died: De­cem­ber 9, 1961, Smith­town, New York.
Buried: Smith­town, New York.

Foulkes grad­uat­ed from the Coll­ege of Em­por­ia, Kan­sas, in 1897 and went on to the Mc­Cor­mick The­o­log­ic­al Sem­in­ary, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois; he re­ceived the Ber­na­dine Orme Smith Fel­low­ship, and stu­died for a year at New Coll­ege in Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land. He lat­er pas­tored at Pres­by­ter­i­an church­es in El­mi­ra, Il­li­nois; Port­land, Or­e­gon; New York Ci­ty; Cleve­land, Ohio; and New­ark, New Jer­sey. He served as Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Board of Min­is­ter­i­al Re­lief and Sus­ten­ta­tion (1913-18), as chair­man of the New Era Move­ment, on the Gen­er­al Coun­cil of the Pres­by­ter­i­an Church, and as moderator of the Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (1937).

Lyrics:
Gird Us, O God, with Hum­ble Might
Take Thou Our Minds, Dear Lord

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