1819 - 1904 Person Name: Rev. W. T. Sleeper Author of "Soul, arise! and give Christ Room" in Carmina Centum 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)
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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.
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William T. Sleeper