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Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Speak as thy Savior would have thee Refrain First Line: Do nothing that you would not do Topics: Christian Life Used With Tune: [Speak as thy Savior would have thee]

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[Speak as thy Savior would have thee]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. S. Fearis Incipit: 35134 33225 72343 Used With Text: The Christian's Test

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The Christian's Test

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Hymnal: The Gospel Hymn Book #13 (1903) First Line: Speak as thy Savior would have thee Refrain First Line: Do nothing that you would not do Topics: Christian Life Languages: English Tune Title: [Speak as thy Savior would have thee]

The Christian's Test

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Hymnal: Hymns that Help #16 (1903) First Line: Speak as thy Savior would have thee Refrain First Line: Do nothing that you would not do, when Jesus comes Languages: English Tune Title: [Speak as thy Savior would have thee]

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J. S. Fearis

1867 - 1932 Composer of "[Speak as thy Savior would have thee]" in The Gospel Hymn Book John Sylvester Fearis, 1867-1932 Born: February 5, 1867, Richland, Iowa. Died: September 2, 1932, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Fearis’ father was a successful singing school teacher, and a painter by trade. At a young age, John learned to read music in his father’s classes. He was passionately fond of music, and, taking lessons on the reed organ, he was soon able to play in Sunday school and church. Later he took charge of the church choir, and taught singing classes in nearby towns. He wrote his first hymn tune at age 16. He eventually joined the editorial staff of the Choir Leader, published by the Lorenz Publishing Company in Dayton, Ohio. Sources-- Choir Herald, December 1932, p. 219 Emurian, p. 17 Hall, pp. 393-4 Lyrics-- Brightly Beams Another Morning Children’s Day Show Me the Way, My Shepherd What Comfort to Our Hearts What Wonderful Love Is the Love Music-- Be Thou Exalted Beautiful Isle of Somewhere God May Call for You Little Raindrops Promise Made to Mother, The Songs in the Night Show Me the Way, My Shepherd There’s Light for a Step Wherever He Leads Me I’ll Go --hymntime.com/tch

Carrie Ellis Breck

1855 - 1934 Person Name: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Author of "The Christian's Test" Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersey, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck.