Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, Once became a child like me

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Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, Once became a child like me

Author: Jane Taylor
Published in 59 hymnals

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Author: Jane Taylor

Taylor, Jane, the younger of two sisters, was born at London, Sept. 23, 1783. Her gift in writing verse displayed itself at an early age. Her first piece was printed in the Minor's Pocket Book for 1804. Her publications included Display, a tale, 1815; Essays in Rhymes, 1816; and the posthumous work edited by her brother, entitled The Contributions of Q. Q., 1824, being pieces in prose and verse from the Youth's Magazine, to which she had contributed under the signature of "Q. Q." She died at Ongar, Essex, April 13, 1824. Her Memoir and Poetical Remains, were published by her father in 1825. The joint productions of the two sisters, Ann Taylor Gilbert & Jane Taylor, were:-- (1) Original Poems, 1805; (2) Hymns for the Nursery, 1806; (3) Hym… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, Once became a child like me
Author:	Jane Taylor
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour. Jane Taylor. [Christ, the Children's Example.] Published in Hymns for Infant Minds, by Anne and Jane Taylor, 1810, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and headed, "The Example of Christ" (edition 1886, p. 99). It has attained to great popularity, and is in extensive use in Great Britain and America. In some American Hymns, including Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, lines 3, 4 of stanza ii.—

"But the Lord was meek and lowly,
Pure and spotless, free from sin,"

is added as a refrain to each stanza, with line 4 as "And was never known to sin." This reading of this line is repeated in some English collections, including Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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VESPER HYMN (Bortnianski)

VESPER HYMN appeared in John A. Stevenson's Selection of Popular National Airs (1818) as a setting for Thomas Moore's "Hark! The Vesper Hymn Is Stealing." A footnote in that hymnal explained that Stevenson had added what is-now the first line of the retrain to a "Russian Air." Some later hymnals att…

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