I Am Going to a City

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I am going to a city, where my Lord has gone before

Author: W. S. McKenzie
Tune: [I am going to a city] (Lamb)
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: W. S. McKenzie

McKenzie, William Scott, D.D., son of Scottish parents, was born at Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Feb. 29, 1832. Entering the Baptist ministry, he held several pastorates until 1873, when he became district secretary for New England of the American Baptist Missionary Union. His hymn "Ye mortals come, adore the Lord" (Passiontide), is in The Canadian Baptist Hymnal, 1888. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line:	I am going to a city, where my Lord has gone before
Title:	I Am Going to a City
Author:	W. S. McKenzie
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I am going to a city
Copyright:	Public Domain