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ASPIRATION

Meter: 7.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. L. Peace Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55331 75512 3432 Used With Text: I want to be like Jesus

I want to be like Jesus

Appears in 89 hymnals Used With Tune: ASPIRATION

Instances

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I want to be like Jesus

Hymnal: The Scottish Hymnal #418 (1892) Languages: English Tune Title: ASPIRATION

Author: Wm. Meynell Whittemore Hymnal: The Presbyterian Book of Praise #525 (1897) Meter: 7.6.8.6 Topics: Hymns for the Young The Son - His Example Languages: English Tune Title: ASPIRATION

I want to be like Jesus

Hymnal: The Church Hymnary #560 (1902) Languages: English Tune Title: ASPIRATION

People

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A. L. Peace

1844 - 1912 Composer of "ASPIRATION" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise Albert Lister Peace DMus United Kingdom 1844-1912. Born at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, son of a warehouseman and woolstapler, he was extremely gifted as a musician, largely self-taught, playing the organ at Holmfirth Parish Church near Huddersfield at age nine. He married Margaret Martin Steel Gilchrist, and they had three children: Lister, Archibald, and Margaret. In 1865 he was appointed organist of Trinity Congregational Church in Glasgow, Scotland. He obtained his doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 1875. He became organist at Glasgow Cathedral in 1879. In 1897 he succeeded William Best as organist at St George’s Hall, Liverpool. In later years he was in much demand to play the organ in recitals. He did so at Canterbury Cathedral (1886), Victoria Hall, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent (1888), and Newcastle Cathedral (1891). He composed orchestrations, sonatas, cantatas, and concert and church service anthems. He was an arranger, author, and editor. He died at Blundelsands, Liverpool, England. John Perry

W. Meynell Whittemore

? - 1894 Person Name: Wm. Meynell Whittemore Author of "I want to be like Jesus" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise Whittemore, William Meynell, Editor of Sunshine, Rector of St. Katherine Cree, London, is the author of "I want to be like Jesus " (Early Piety), in his Infant Altar, 1842; and "We won't give up the Bible" (Holy. Scriptures), 1839. The form of the latter in Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory, 1872, is a revision by Bp. John Gregg. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)