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Lord, Is it I?

Author: F. G. Burroughs Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Someone today will seek Thy face Used With Tune: [Someone today will seek Thy face]

[Someone today will seek Thy face]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Gilmour Incipit: 54565 54443 45443 Used With Text: Lord, Is it I?

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Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: Songs of Love and Praise No. 4 #11 (1897) First Line: Someone today will seek thy face Lyrics: 1 Someone today will seek thy face, Someone begin the heav’nly race, Someone will triumph through thy grace,– Lord, is it I? Someone will triumph through thy grace,– Lord, is it I? 2 Someone will pour the ointment sweet Over thy sacred head and feet, Mary’s sweet act of love repeat,– Lord, is it I? Mary’s sweet act of love repeat,– Lord, is it I? 3 Someone today the cross will bear, Some for thy glory do and dare, Someone thy goodness will declare,– Lord, is it I? Someone thy goodness will declare,– Lord, is it I? Tune Title: [Someone today will seek thy face]

Lord, Is it I?

Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: The Revival No. 3 #101 (1899) First Line: Someone today will seek Thy face Languages: English Tune Title: [Someone today will seek Thy face]

Lord, Is it I?

Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: The Bow of Promise #107 (1898) First Line: Someone today will seek Thy face Languages: English Tune Title: [Someone today will seek Thy face]

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H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Composer of "[Someone today will seek thy face]" in Songs of Love and Praise No. 4 Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry

Ophelia G. Adams

1856 - 1949 Person Name: F. G. Burroughs Author of "Lord, is it I?" in Songs of Love and Praise No. 4 Ophelia G. Adams was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) She was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of F. G. Burroughs and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs. Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921