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[In tenderness He sought me]

Appears in 9 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Gilmour Incipit: 55565 15172 6765 Used With Text: O the Love that Sought Me!

In Tenderness He Sought Me!

Author: W. Spencer Walton Appears in 87 hymnals First Line: In tenderness He sought me Refrain First Line: O the love that sought me! Used With Tune: [In tenderness He sought me]

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Author: W. Spencer Walton Hymnal: Songs of Redemption #14 (1899) First Line: In tenderness He sought me Refrain First Line: Oh, the love that sought me! Languages: English Tune Title: [In tenderness He sought me]

In Tenderness He Sought Me!

Author: W. Spencer Walton Hymnal: The Best of All #100 (1910) First Line: In tenderness He sought me Refrain First Line: O the love that sought me! Tune Title: [In tenderness He sought me]

O the Love that Sought Me!

Author: W. Spencer Walton Hymnal: The Bow of Promise #7 (1898) First Line: In tenderness He sought me Languages: English Tune Title: [In tenderness He sought me]

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H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Composer of "[In tenderness He sought me]" in Songs of Love and Praise No. 4 Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry

Adoniram J. Gordon

1836 - 1895 Person Name: Dr. A. J. Gordon Author of "O the Love that Sought Me" in The Gospel Pilot Hymnal Gordon, Adoniram Judson, D.D., born at New Hampton, N.H., Apr. 19, 1836. Graduated at Brown University, 1860; entered the Baptist ministry; Pastor of Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston, 1869; and died in 1895. He published The Vestry Hymn and Tune Book, 1872; and was one of the editors of the Service of Song for Baptist Churches, 1871. His hymns in common use include:— 1. O blessed Paraclete. [Holy Spirit .] Given in Sursum Corda, 1898, as having been written in 1890. 2. O Spirit's anointing, for service appointing . [Foreign Missions.] This hymn was "written in the summer of 1886, at Northfield School for Bible Study, organised by Mr. Moody. More than one hundred college students connected with this school gave themselves to the work of foreign missions during their stay at Northfield. Four of their number were chosen to visit the colleges in different parts of the country, and endeavour to awaken a deeper interest in missions during the succeeding academic year. At their request Dr. Gordon” wrote this hymn. Baptist Hymns and Hymn Writers. 3. Where art thou, soul! I hear God say. [Divine Chiding.] Published in social meeting edition of The Service of Song, 1881. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)