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Precious Abiding Peace

Publication Date: 1960 Publisher: Stamps Baxter Music and Printing Co. Publication Place: Dallas Editors: J. R. Baxter; Stamps Baxter Music and Printing Co.

Let's go back to God

Author: J. R. Baxter Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: As a nation we've been prone to wander

The Master Engineer

Author: J. M. Drake Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: We're on life's speeding railroad

Saved by grace

Author: Fanny J. Crosby Appears in 208 hymnals First Line: Some day the silver cord will break, and I Refrain First Line: And I [we] shall see him face to face

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There is a better home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: PAP1960 #1 (1960) First Line: Somewhere beyond the sea of life Refrain First Line: A better home Languages: English

Try Jesus, he never fails

Author: J. R. Baxter Hymnal: PAP1960 #1a (1960) First Line: You have tried the path of worldly pleasure Languages: English

Wake, rise

Author: J. M. Hunter Hymnal: PAP1960 #2 (1960) First Line: Grand is the work and bright Languages: English

1879 - 1968 Hymnal Number: 127 Author of "Jesus came and found me" in Precious Abiding Peace 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

E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Person Name: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal Number: 82 Author of "Messengers for the King" in Precious Abiding Peace Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)