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Author: J. E. Rankin, D.D. Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: I love the sweet water, that runs in the rills Refrain First Line: Water for me! water for me! Used With Tune: [I love the sweet water, that runs in the rills]

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[I love the sweet water that runs in the rills]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thoro Harris Incipit: 55345 11176 55523 Used With Text: Water for Me

[I love the sweet water, that runs in the rills]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. S. Morrison Incipit: 13335 55666 53444 Used With Text: Water for Me

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Water for Me

Author: J. E. Rankin Hymnal: Inspiring Songs No. 1 #99 (1906) First Line: I love the sweet water that runs in the rills Lyrics: 1 I love the sweet water that runs in the rills, And rumbles and tumbles and whirls; That beads in the raindrops and turns loud the mills, And flashes all radiant with pearls. Chorus: Water for me! Water for me! No use for strong drink can I see; Water for me! Water for me! There’s nothing that sweet can be. 2 I love the sweet water that comes in the dew, And brightens the eyes of the flow’rs; That clothes all the landscape with greeness anew, And quickens earth’s slumbering pow’rs. [Chorus] 3 Sweet water, sweet water! ‘tis God that distils, And surely he knows what is best; It dances and glances in streamlets and rills, And all his creation is blest. [Chorus] Topics: Nature; Temperance Languages: English Tune Title: [I love the sweet water that runs in the rills]

Water for Me

Author: J. E. Rankin Hymnal: Little Branches No. 4 #44 (1906) First Line: I love the sweet water that runs in the rills Refrain First Line: Water for me! Water for me! Languages: English Tune Title: [I love the sweet water that runs in the rills]

Water for Me

Author: J. E. Rankin, D.D. Hymnal: Gospel Bells #96 (1880) First Line: I love the sweet water, that runs in the rills Refrain First Line: Water for me! water for me! Languages: English Tune Title: [I love the sweet water, that runs in the rills]

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Jeremiah Eames Rankin

1828 - 1904 Person Name: J. E. Rankin Author of "Water for Me" in Inspiring Songs No. 1 Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857. Another of his hymns is "Rest, rest, rest, brother rest." He died in 1904. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================== Rankin, J. 33., p. 951, ii. Dr. Rankin, b. in N. H. (not New Haven), and received his D.D. 1869, LL.D. 1889 from his Alma Mater. He was President for several years of Howard University, Washington, D.C. His publications included several volumes of Sermons, German-English Lyrics, Sacred and Secular, 1897; 2nd ed. 1898, &c. In addition to his hymns noted on p. 951, ii., he has written and published mainly in sheet form many others, the most important and best-known being:— 1. God be with you till we meet again. [Benediction.] Dr. Rankin's account of this hymn, supplied to us, in common with Mr. Brownlie, for his Hymns and H. Writers of The Church Hymnary, 1899, is: "It was written as a Christian good-bye, and first sung in the First Congregational Church, of which I was minister for fifteen years. We had Gospel meetings on Sunday nights, and our music was intentionally of the popular kind. I wrote the first stanza, and sent it to two gentlemen for music. The music which seemed to me to best suit the words was written by T. G. Tomer, teacher of public schools in New Jersey, at one time on the staff of General 0. 0. Howard. After receiving the music (which was revised by Dr. J. W. Bischoff, the organist of my church), I wrote the other stanzas." The hymn became at once popular, and has been translated into several languages. In America it is in numerous collections; and in Great Britain, in The Church Hymnary, 1898, Horder's Worship Song, 1905, The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, and others. It was left undated by Dr. Rankin, but I.D. Sankey gives it as 1882. 2. Beautiful the little hands. [Little ones for Jesus.] Given without date in Gloria Deo, New York, 1900. Dr. Rankin's translations include versions of German, French, Latin, and Welsh hymns. His contributions to the periodical press have been numerous. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Thoro Harris

1874 - 1955 Composer of "[I love the sweet water that runs in the rills]" in Inspiring Songs No. 1 Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906) Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor) Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922) --www.hymntime.com/tch