Escucha, Pobre Pecador

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Escucha pobre pecador

Translator: H. G. Jackson; Author: John H. Stockton
Tune: STOCKTON (Stockton)
Published in 11 hymnals

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Translator: H. G. Jackson

Born: January 1, 1838, Manchester, Indiana. Died: November 12, 1914. A Methodist minister, Jackson and his wife Alice spent many years as missionaries in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Upon their return to America, they lived in the River Forest/Oak Park area of Chicago, Illinois. --www.hymntime.com/tch Go to person page >

Author: John H. Stockton

Stockton, John Hart, a Methodist minister, was born in 1813, and died in 1877. He was a member of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the successive pastoral charges that he filled as a member of that Conference are found in the Conference Journal. He was not only a preacher, but a musician and composer of tunes, as well as hymn writer. He published two gospel song books: Salvation Melodies, 1874, and Precious Songs, 1875. Hymn Writers of the Church by Charles Nutter, 1911… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Escucha pobre pecador
Title:	Escucha, Pobre Pecador
English Title:	Come, every soul by sin oppressed
Translator:	H. G. Jackson
Author:	John H. Stockton
Meter:	8.6.8.6 with refrain
Language:	Spanish
Refrain First Line:	Ven a Cristo, ven a Cristo

Hebrews 11:6
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Tune

STOCKTON (Stockton)

John H. Stockton (b. New Hope, PA, 1813; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1877) composed MINERVA for one of his own gospel-hymn texts, "Come, Every Soul by Sin Oppressed." The tune was published in his Salvation Melodies No.1 (1874); however, it had also been published earlier in Joyful Songs Nos. 1-3 Combined…

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