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Author: Charles A. Dickinson, 1849-1906 Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1. To Thee, O Savior friend, Our loving prayers ascend, To Thee we sing. Upon Thine altars here Our choicest gifts appear, And all we hold most dear To Thee we bring. 2. Sometimes our love to Thee Grows cold, and seems to be A fleeting breath. But Thine burns warm and pure While earthly things endure: A love forever sure In life and death. 3. Dear Lord, our love renew, That we with zeal may do Thy holy will. Support us when we fail, Be near us when we call, Direct and help us all To serve Thee still. Used With Tune: GROSE

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[To Thee, O Saviour Friend]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Howard B. Grose Incipit: 51316 24432 34252 Used With Text: To Thee, O Saviour Friend

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To Thee, O Savior Friend

Author: Charles A. Dickinson Hymnal: Williston Hymns #43 (1917) Tune Title: [To Thee, O Savior Friend]

To Thee, O Savior Friend

Author: Charles A. Dickinson, 1849-1906 Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6875 Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Lyrics: 1. To Thee, O Savior friend, Our loving prayers ascend, To Thee we sing. Upon Thine altars here Our choicest gifts appear, And all we hold most dear To Thee we bring. 2. Sometimes our love to Thee Grows cold, and seems to be A fleeting breath. But Thine burns warm and pure While earthly things endure: A love forever sure In life and death. 3. Dear Lord, our love renew, That we with zeal may do Thy holy will. Support us when we fail, Be near us when we call, Direct and help us all To serve Thee still. Languages: English Tune Title: GROSE

To Thee, O Saviour Friend

Author: Charles A. Dickinson Hymnal: The Endeavor Hymnal #37 (1901) Topics: Abiding in Christ; Christ Friend; Little Things; Praise To Christ; Prayer Languages: English Tune Title: [To Thee, O Saviour Friend]

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Howard B. Grose

1851 - 1939 Person Name: Howard Benjamin Grose Composer of "GROSE" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: September 5, 1851, Millerton, New York. Died: May 19, 1939, Ballston Spa, New York. Buried: Ballston Spa, New York. Grose attended the University of Chicago, Illinois, and the University of Rochester, New York (AB 1876, AM 1880). He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1883, and served at the First Baptist Church, Poughkeepsie, New York (1883-87) and the First Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1888-90). He also served as president of the University of South Dakota (1890-92), taught history at the University of Chicago (1892-96), was assistant editor of The Watchman in Boston, Massachusetts (1896-1900), and editorial secretary for the American Baptist Home Mission Society (1904-10), and edited the Missions journal for 23 years. He lived his later years in Mount Vernon, New York. His works include: The Endeavor Hymnal (New York: 1902) Aliens or Americans, 1906 The Incoming Millions, 1906 The Praise Book, with George B. Graff (Boston, Massachusetts: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1906) Advance to the Antilles, 1910 Never Man So Spake, 1924 --www.hymntime.org/tch

Charles A. Dickinson

1849 - 1907 Person Name: Charles A. Dickinson, 1849-1906 Author of "To Thee, O Savior Friend" in The Cyber Hymnal Charles Albert Dickinson was born July 4, 1849. He spent the first sixteen years of his life living on his family farm in Westminster, Vermont. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 1872. He then went on to graduate from Harvard College in 1876 and Andover Seminary in 1879. Dickinson served as pastor of Payson Memorial Church in Portland, Maine and Kirk Street Church in Lowell, Massachusetts before assuming his thirteen-year post at Berkeley Street Church in Boston, MA. in 1887. Under Dickinson's auspices, Berkeley Street Church became Berkeley Temple and greatly expanded its community outreach and so-called "rescue work," including the establishment of New England Kurn Hattin Homes for "homeless and neglected boys and girls" in Dickinson's hometown of Westminster, Vermont. Dickinson passed away in January of 1907 after an illness. Jaimie Scanlon ======================= Dickinson, Charles Albert, D.D., an American Congregational Minister, born at Westminster, Vermont, July 4, 1849, and graduated at Harvard University in 1876. He held various charges to 1899 when he retired through ill health, and returned to Ceres, California. His hymn-writing has been mainly for the young. Several of these hymns are in the Christian Endeavour Hymnal and other collections. The most widely known are "O golden day, so long desired," and "Blessed Master, I have promised" (Consecration to Christ). This latter was written Jan. 4, 1900. [Rev. C. L. Noyes, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)