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To Whom Shall I Go?

In this world of sin and peril where for safety shall I flee

Author: Julia H. Johnston
Tune: [In this world of sin and peril where for safety shall I flee]
Published in 1 hymnal

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Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: In this world of sin and peril where for safety shall I flee
Title: To Whom Shall I Go?
Author: Julia H. Johnston
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O to Jesus, only Jesus, I will go
Publication Date: 1937
Copyright: © 1937 by Haldor LIllenas. Assigned to Nazarene Publishing House

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Devotion and Praise #127

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