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Jesus, I Will Follow Thee

Author: Ernest G. W. Wesley Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Jesus, I will follow Thee, Wheresoever Thou leadest me Refrain First Line: In Thyself I now confide

[Jesus, I will follow Thee]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. Towner Used With Text: Jesus, I Will Follow Thee

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Jesus, I Will Follow Thee

Author: Ernest G. W. Wesley Hymnal: Songs for Men #34 (1913) Refrain First Line: In Thyself I now confide Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus, I will follow Thee]

Jesus, I Will Follow Thee

Author: Ernest G. W. Wesley Hymnal: Songs for Men #34 (1949) Refrain First Line: In Thyself I now confide Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus, I will follow Thee]

1850 - 1919 Composer of "[Jesus, I will follow Thee]" in Songs for Men Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

Ernest G. Wellesley-Wesley

Person Name: Ernest G. W. Wesley Author of "Jesus, I Will Follow Thee" Ernest G. W. Wesley was born and educated in England. At the age of seventeen he started writing for local newspapers. When he was twenty-two he worked as special correspondent for The New York Times in Buenos Aries. While he was in Buenos Aries he became licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He came to the United States in the early 1870's and continued writing and contributing to religious and secular papers. He wrote between five and six hundred hymns and nearly two thousand articles on religious and theological topics. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)