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Look and Believe

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: The Christ is found, we've waited long Refrain First Line: O, look and believe, O, come and receive

[The Christ is found, we’ve waited long]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Incipit: 13451 44336 65143 Used With Text: Look and Believe

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Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: Joyful Sound #167 (1889) First Line: The Christ is found, we’ve waited long Refrain First Line: Oh, look and believe, oh, come and receive Lyrics: 1 The Christ is found, we’ve waited long, The Holy One, the Promised One; Our fears are gone, our hopes are strong In God’s victorious Son. Refrain: Oh, look and believe, oh, come and receive The Christ who died for thee; The Son of Man is the Son of God; Come, doubting heart, and see. 2 The Man of Grief shall dry thy tears, His hands were bound to set thee free, His blood shall cleanse the sin of years, Come, trembling heart, and see. [Refrain] 3 He calms the storm to give thee peace, He dies thine endless life to be, He lives to bid thy sorrow cease, Now come to him and see. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [The Christ is found, we’ve waited long]

Look and Believe

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: Sacred Trio #316 (1889) First Line: The Christ is found, we’ve waited long Refrain First Line: Oh, look and believe, oh, come and receive Tune Title: [The Christ is found, we’ve waited long]

Oh, look and believe

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: The Sacred Trio #315 (1892) First Line: The Christ is found, we've waited long Topics: Invitation

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Priscilla Jane Owens

1829 - 1907 Person Name: Priscilla J. Owens Author of "Look and Believe" Owens, Priscilla Jane, was born July 21, 1829, of Scotch and Welsh descent, and is now (1906) resident at Baltimore, where she is engaged in public-school work. For 50 years Miss Owen has interested herself in Sunday-school work, and most of her hymns were written for children's services. Her hymn in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, "We have heard a joyful sound" (Missions), was written for a Sunday-school Mission Anniversary, and the words were adapted to the chorus "Vive le Roi" in the opera The Huguenots. [Rev. James Bonar, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix II (1907) ========================= Owens, Priscilla Jane. (July 21, 1829--December 5, 1907). Of Scottish and Welsh ancestry, she spent her entire life in Baltimore. She was a public school teacher there for 49 years. She was a member of the Union Square Methodist Church and took particular interest in its Sunday School. Her literary efforts, both in prose and poetry, appeared in such religious periodicals as the Methodist Protestant and the Christian Standard. --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives

William J. Kirkpatrick

1838 - 1921 Person Name: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Composer of "[The Christ is found, we’ve waited long]" in Joyful Sound William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia. Bert Polman