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[Savior, I come in the deepest distress]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Gilmour Incipit: 32154 56715 43217

Author: Carrie E. Breck Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Saviour, I come in the deepest distress Refrain First Line: Just as I am, in my sorrow and need Used With Tune: [Saviour, I come in the deepest distress]

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Saviour, I Come

Author: Carrie E. Breck Hymnal: Songs of Redemption #9 (1899) First Line: Saviour, I come in the deepest distress Refrain First Line: Just as I am, in my sorrow and need Languages: English Tune Title: [Saviour, I come in the deepest distress]

Saviour, I Come

Author: Carrie E. Breck Hymnal: Songs of Love and Praise No. 3 #25 (1896) First Line: Saviour, I come in the deepest distress Refrain First Line: Just as I am, in my sorrow and need Languages: English Tune Title: [Saviour, I come in the deepest distress]

People

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Carrie Ellis Breck

1855 - 1934 Person Name: Carrie E. Breck Author of "Saviour, I Come" in Songs of Redemption Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersy, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck.

H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Composer of "[Saviour, I come in the deepest distress]" in Songs of Redemption Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry