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The Place

Author: Mrs. John Modrick; Adelaide A. Pollard Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes Refrain First Line: Where is that blessed [wondrous] place of blessing
The Place

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[There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: William M. Runyan Incipit: 56535 61765 57727 Used With Text: The Place
[There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes]

[There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Thoro Harris Incipit: 51233 33215 51353 Used With Text: The Place of Prayer
[There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes]

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The Place

Author: A. A. P. Hymnal: Songs of the Great Salvation #43 (1918) First Line: There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes Refrain First Line: Where is that blessed place of blessing—dost thou ask "where?" Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes]
The Place

The Place of Prayer

Author: Mrs. John Modrick Hymnal: Evangelistic Hymns No. 2 #33 (1931) First Line: There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes Refrain First Line: Where is that wondrous place of blessings, where Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes]
The Place of Prayer

Place of prayer

Author: John Modrick Hymnal: Evangelistic Hymns #d173 (1930) First Line: There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes of blinded men to instant perfect sight Refrain First Line: Where is that blessed [wondrous] place of blessing Languages: English
Place of prayer

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Adelaide A. Pollard

1862 - 1934 Author of "The Place" Not to be confused with Adelaide A. Procter
Adelaide A. Pollard

William M. Runyan

1870 - 1957 Composer of "[There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes]" in Songs of the Great Salvation Showing early musical promise, William Marion Runyan (b. Marion, NY, 1870; d. Pittsburg, KS, 1957) was a substitute church organist by the age of twelve. He became a Methodist minister in 1891 and served several churches in Kansas but turned to evangelism in 1903; he worked for the Central Methodist Conference for the next twenty years. Following that service, Runyan became pastor at the Federated Church at John Brown University, Sulphur Springs, Arkansas. Editor of Christian Workers Magazine, he also served the Moody Bible Institute and was an editor for Hope Publishing Company until his retirement in 1948. Runyan wrote a number of hymn texts, gospel songs, and hymn tunes. Bert Polman
William M. Runyan

Thoro Harris

1874 - 1955 Composer of "[There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes]" in Evangelistic Hymns No. 2 Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906) Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor) Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922) --www.hymntime.com/tch
Thoro Harris

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