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New Songs of Pentecost #71
Display Title: Unto Us Who Believe First Line: Jesus came down to this world of woe Tune Title: [Jesus came down to this world of woe] Author: Richard Hainsworth Date: 1916
New Songs of Pentecost #71
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Unto Us Who Believe
Jesus came down to this world of woe
Author: Haldor LillenasTune: [Jesus came down to this world of woe]
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Author: Haldor Lillenas
Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >Instances
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Rose of Sharon Hymns #490
Display Title: Unto Us Who Believe First Line: Jesus came down to this world of woe Tune Title: [Jesus came down to this world of woe] Author: Richard Hainsworth Date: 1917
Rose of Sharon Hymns #490
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