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What Wilt Thou Do?

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: What wilt thou do when the Jordan is swelling? Refrain First Line: Haste, poor sinner, O haste to the Savior

[What wilt thou do when the Jordan is swelling?]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: I. Baltzell Incipit: 51232 16166 55123 Used With Text: What Wilt Thou Do?

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Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: Holy Voices #102 (1883) First Line: What wilt thou do when the Jordan is swelling? Refrain First Line: Haste, poor sinner, O haste to the Savior Languages: English Tune Title: [What wilt thou do when the Jordan is swelling?]

Haste, poor sinner, O haste

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: Songs of the Soul #d189 (1889) First Line: What wilt thou do when the Jordan

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Priscilla Jane Owens

1829 - 1907 Person Name: Priscilla J. Owens Author of "What Wilt Thou Do?" 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

I. Baltzell

1832 - 1893 Composer of "[What wilt thou do when the Jordan is swelling?]" in Holy Voices Baltzell, Isaiah. (near Frederick, Maryland, November 26, 1832--January 16, 1893, Frederick). He was educated in the common schools, and at New Windsor Academy, Carroll County, Maryland. In 1859 he married Cecilia Caroline James at Mountain Jackson, Virginia. Originally a Lutheran, he joined the United Brethren Church in 1847, was licensed to preach by the Virginia Conference in 1854, and ordained in 1856. In 1862 he joined the Pennsylvania Conference. He was presiding elder from 1875 to 1880, and from 1883 to 1889. He was a delegate to three General Conferences, and was a trustee of Otterbein University. In 1873 he was appointed by the General Conference a member of the committee to superintend the publication of Hymns for the Sanctuary. His first compilation was Revival Songster (Baltimore, 1859). He was joint editor, with G.W.M. Rigor, or Choral Gems (1871); joint editor, with E.S. Lorenz, of Heavenly Carols, Songs of Grace, Gates of Praise, Songs of Cheer, Songs of the Kingdom, Holy Voices, Songs of Refreshing, Notes of Triumph, Garnered Sheaves, Songs of the Morning, and The Master's Praise. He was also author of music and services for special occasions, and the editor and publisher of Carols of Praise. See: Shuey, W.A. (1892). Manual of the United Brethren Publishing House; Historical and Descriptive: 243-244. Some of his hymns bear the pseudonym Amicus. --Harry Eskew, DNAH Archives