While My Redeemer's Near

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While my Redeemer's near

Author: Anne Steele
Published in 186 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	LIFT HIGH THE CROSS

Representative Text

1 While my Redeemer's near,
My Shepherd and my Guide,
I bid farewell to anxious fear--
My wants are all supplied.

2 Dear Shepherd, if I stray,
My wand'ring feet restore;
To thy fair pastures guide my way,
And let me rove no more.

3 All praise to thee at last,
Dear Saviour, shall be given,
When earthly trials all are past,
And earth exchanged for heaven.

Source: The Voice of Praise: a collection of hymns for the use of the Methodist Church #640

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Author: Anne Steele

Anne Steele was the daughter of Particular Baptist preacher and timber merchant William Steele. She spent her entire life in Broughton, Hampshire, near the southern coast of England, and devoted much of her time to writing. Some accounts of her life portray her as a lonely, melancholy invalid, but a revival of research in the last decade indicates that she had been more active and social than what was previously thought. She was theologically conversant with Dissenting ministers and "found herself at the centre of a literary circle that included family members from various generations, as well as local literati." She chose a life of singleness to focus on her craft. Before Christmas in 1742, she declined a marriage proposal from contemporar… Go to person page >

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First Line:	While my Redeemer's near
Title:	While My Redeemer's Near
Author:	Anne Steele
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

GORTON (Beethoven)

The tune GORTON derives from the second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23, Opus 57 (1807); however, the arranger and any significance to the tune title are unknown. GORTON was published with this versification of Psalm 79 in the 1912 Psalter. Sing this tune in parts, beginning v…

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