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[Our country's voice is pleading] (Richards)

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles H. Richards Incipit: 33221 17554 436

Our Country's Voice is Pleading

Author: Mrs. M. F. Anderson Appears in 158 hymnals First Line: Our country’s voice is pleading Topics: Missions Used With Tune: [Our country’s voice is pleading]

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Our Country's Voice is Pleading

Author: Mrs. M. F. Anderson Hymnal: The Praise Book #209 (1906) First Line: Our country’s voice is pleading Topics: Missions Tune Title: [Our country’s voice is pleading]

Our Country's Voice Is Pleading

Author: Mrs. M. F. Anderson Hymnal: The Endeavor Hymnal #233 (1901) Topics: Missions; National; Native Land; Righteousness Languages: English Tune Title: [Our country's voice is pleading]

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Charles H. Richards

1839 - 1925 Composer of "[Our country’s voice is pleading]" in The Praise Book

Maria Frances (Hill) Anderson

1819 - 1895 Person Name: Mrs. M. F. Anderson Author of "Our Country's Voice is Pleading" in The Praise Book Anderson, Maria Frances. (Paris, France, January 30, 1819--October 13, 1895, Rosemont, Pennsylvania). Baptist. Daughter of Thomas F. Hill of Exeter, England. Married Rev. George W. Anderson, 1847. Author of several works on Baptists and missions for which she often used the pen name, L.M.N. Asked by George B. Ide, pastor of First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, to write a home mission hymn for the Baptist Harp (1849) in the same meter as Bishop Heber's "From Greenland's icy mountains." This hymn, "Our country's voice is pleading" was first sung in a home mission meeting at that Philadelphia church soon after the Baptist Harp was published. Another hymn appearing in the same collection and subtitled "The Bereaved Husband" begins "Yes she is gone, yet do not thou The goodness of the Lord distrust." --Deborah Carlton Loftis, DNAH Archives =========================================== Anderson, Maria Frances, born in Paris, France, Jan. 30, 1819, and married to G. W. Anderson, Professor in the University of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Two of her hymns are given in the Baptist Harp, 1849. Of these— "Our country's voice is pleading," has come into common use. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================= Anderson, Maria Frances, née Hill, p. 67, i., is the daughter of Thomas F. Hill, of Exeter, England, and a Baptist. She published in 1853 Jessie Carey, and in 1861, The Baptists in Sweden. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =================