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IONA (Kerr)

Composer: Robert P. Kerr

Born: 1850, Greensboro, Alabama. Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery , Nashville, Tennessee. Kerr, Robert P., D.D., b. at Greensborough, Alabama, graduated at Union Theological Seminary, Va., 1873, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Lafayette, 1874. His Hymns of the Ages, a collection on conservative Evangelical lines which hardly justified its title, was published in N.Y., 1891. In it appeared his hymn,"Blessed country, home of Jesus," 1891, A later hymn, "Galilean King and Prophet," is dated 1901. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)  Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: IONA (Kerr)
Composer: Robert P. Kerr (1891)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 54515 45743 46654
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Texts

Communion desired

O Thou, to Whose All-Searching Sight

Come to Me

With tearful eyes I look around;
Life seems a dark and stormy sea;
Yet, midst the gloom, I hear a sound,
A heavenly whisper, "Come to Me."

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Hymns of the Ages #87

Hymns of the Ages #87
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Hymns of the Ages #88

Hymns of the Ages #88
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Hymns of the Ages #89

Hymns of the Ages #89
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