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Sarah Betts Rhodes

Short Name: Sarah Betts Rhodes
Full Name: Rhodes, Sarah Betts, 1829-1904
Birth Year: 1829
Death Year: 1904

Rhodes, Sarah Betts, née Bradshaw, wife of a Sheffield merchant, wrote "God Who made the earth" (Sunday School Festival) for the Sheffield Sunday School Union Whitsuntide Festival, 1870. The tune also was by Mrs. Rhodes. The hymn is in several collections, including the Methodist Sunday School Hymnbook, 1879, &c.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)


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