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[I read the dear old promise]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. W. Straub Incipit: 12333 36534 35322
[I read the dear old promise]
Unfailing Love
Author: Eben E. Rexford Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I read the dear old promise Refrain First Line: O sweet the words of comfort Used With Tune: [I read the dear old promise]
Unfailing Love
Unfailing Love
Author: Eben E. Rexford Hymnal: Christian Life Songs #59 (1890) First Line: I read the dear old promise Refrain First Line: O, sweet the words of comfort Languages: English Tune Title: [I read the dear old promise]
Unfailing Love
Unfailing Love
Author: Eben E. Rexford Hymnal: Bright Light #194 (1893) First Line: I read the dear old promise Refrain First Line: O sweet the words of comfort Languages: English Tune Title: [I read the dear old promise]
Unfailing Love
Eben E. Rexford
1848 - 1916 Author of "Unfailing Love" in Bright Light Rexford, Eben Eugene.M (Johnsburg, New York, July 16, 1848--October 16, 1916, Shiocton, Wisconsin). Horticulturalist and editor of a Wisconsin farm journal. Many of his verses were used to fill empty corners of the journal. He also wrote many books on gardening. Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisc.), Litt.D. Twenty-five years, organist at First Congregational Church, Shiocton.
See: Smith, Mary L.P. (1930). Eben E. Rexford; a biographical sketch. Menasha, Wis., George Banta Pub. Co.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives and Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company.
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Rexford, Eben Eugene , an American writer, born July 16, 1848, is the author of Nos. 199, 246, 263, 353, in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos), 1878, No. 5, and 456 in the Methodist Sunday School Hymnbook, 1879.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Rexford, E. E. , p. 1587, ii. Additional hymns by this author in common use include:—
1. He saw the wheat fields waiting. Harvest of the World.
2. O where are the reapers. Missions.
3. Rouse up to work that waits for us. Duty.
4. We are sailing o'er an ocean. Life's Vicissitudes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Eben E. Rexford
S. W. Straub
1842 - 1899 Composer of "[I read the dear old promise]" in Bright Light Solomon.W Straub Solomon was the brother of Maria Straub. His father Joseph was a farmer. His parents, who were of German descent.
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S. W. Straub
