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Glad Tidings in Song

Publication Date: 1920 Publisher: Glad Tidings Pub. Co. Publication Place: Chicago Editors: W. E. Biederwolf; J. S. Hamilton; Glad Tidings Pub. Co.
Glad Tidings in Song

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Friendship with Jesus, fellowship divine

Author: J. C. Ludgate Appears in 48 hymnals First Line: A friend of Jesus, O what bliss
Friendship with Jesus, fellowship divine
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Turn to the Lord and seek salvation

Author: Joseph Hart Appears in 1,471 hymnals First Line: Come ye [you] sinners, poor and wretched [needy], Weak and wounded
Turn to the Lord and seek salvation

Let my faith take hold on thee

Author: Fanny J. Crosby Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Thou who knowest all my weakness Refrain First Line: Firm and fearless may I ever tread
Let my faith take hold on thee

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It's just like His great love

Author: Edna R. Worrell Hymnal: GTS1920 #d1 (1920) First Line: A friend I have called Jesus, Whose love is Refrain First Line: It's just like Jesus to roll the clouds away Languages: English
It's just like His great love

Friendship with Jesus, fellowship divine

Author: J. C. Ludgate Hymnal: GTS1920 #d2 (1920) First Line: A friend of Jesus, O what bliss Languages: English
Friendship with Jesus, fellowship divine

Alas, and did my Savior bleed? And did my Sovereign die?

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Hymnal: GTS1920 #d3 (1920) Languages: English
Alas, and did my Savior bleed? And did my Sovereign die?

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Alfred Barratt

1879 - 1968 Hymnal Number: d31 Author of "Tell somebody today" in Glad Tidings in Song Barratt, Alfred. (New Springs, Wigan, Lancashire, England, October 25, 1879--December, 1968). Coming to the United States as a young man, he studied at Gordon College, Massachusetts, and Newton Theological Seminary, Mass. He was ordained in December, 1913, by the Baptists in Connecticut, then by the Wheeling WV Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the USA, in 1924. He was pastor of Dallas, West Virginia, then of a series of churches in the Presbytery of Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was awarded the Doctor of Literature degree by Bob Jones College. On November 26, 1962, he wrote the undersigned: "For 39 long years I have labored hard and steady writing sermons, children's story sermons, and hymns. Up to the present day I have written 4,477 hymns. 80 percent of my sermons are published in books and magazines." --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives
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Lizzie De Armond

1847 - 1936 Person Name: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal Number: d16 Author of "Get back to the Bible, the good old Bible" in Glad Tidings in Song Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
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William R. Featherston

1846 - 1873 Person Name: William Ralf Featherstone Hymnal Number: d48 Author of "If ever I loved thee, Lord [my] Jesus, 'tis now" in Glad Tidings in Song William Ralph Featherston(e) Canada 1846-1873. Born at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church there. He became a Christian at age 16 while in Toronto, and is thought to have written his famous hymn about the same time. He sent the poem to his aunt, Ms. E. Featherston Wilson and she gave it to a publisher. Adoniram. J Gordon, an evangelist, founder of Gordon College & Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, found the hymn in a 1870 London hymnal and was impressed with the words, but did not like the tune, so he composed the melody that has been used with the hymn ever since. Featherstone is thought to have married Julie R MacAlister in 1869 and that they had a son, John, in 1870. Featherstone died in Montreal at age 26. John Perry
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