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[When tossed on life's tempestuous tide]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. Warren Bentley Incipit: 33215 65512 16533

'Tis Sweet to Rest My Faith on Thee

Author: R. G. Staples Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: When tossed on life's tempestuous tide Refrain First Line: O Lamb of God! O Lamb of God! Used With Tune: [When tossed on life's tempestuous tide]

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'Tis Sweet to Rest My Faith on Thee

Author: R. G. Staples Hymnal: Gospel Echoes #14 (1877) First Line: When tossed on life's tempestuous tide Refrain First Line: O Lamb of God! O Lamb of God! Languages: English Tune Title: [When tossed on life's tempestuous tide]

'Tis Sweet to Rest My Faith on Thee

Author: R. G. Staples Hymnal: Joyful Songs #74 (1875) First Line: When toss'd on life's tempestuous tide Refrain First Line: Oh, Lamb of God! Oh, Lamb of God! Lyrics: 1 When toss'd on life's tempestuous tide, 'Midst dang'rous shoals on ev'ry side, 'Tis sweet to calmly rest on thee, Thou lamb of God! who died for me. Refrain: Oh, Lamb of God! Oh, Lamb of God! Slain for my sins on Calvary, 'Tis sweet to rest my faith on thee, Since thou hast done so much for me. 2 Amid the winds the tempests rage, May thoughts of thee my soul engage, No other hand can guide my feet, No other name is half so sweet. [Refrain] 3 And when I hear the further shore, When earthly trials all are o'er, May I with heaven's blood-wash'd band, Around the throne in glory stand. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [When toss'd on life's tempestuous tide]

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William Bentley

1759 - 1819 Person Name: Wm. W. Bentley Composer of "[When toss'd on life's tempestuous tide]" in Joyful Songs William Bentley (June 22, 1759, Boston, Massachusetts – December 29, 1819, Salem, Massachusetts) was minister, scholar, columnist, and diarist. His ancestors were early Puritan settlers to New England. He lived with his grandfather, William Paine, a well-to-do landowner, who sent him to North Writing School at the age of six, where he studied Latin and Greek. At the age of fourteen, his grandfather enrolled him in Harvard University. After graduating, he taught at Boston Latin School North Writing School, and then became a Greek and Latin tutor at Harvard University while attending graduate classes in theology. He was one of the first New England minister to profess unitarian beliefs and was a close friend of James Freeman, the first minister in the United States to call himself a Unitarian. In 1783 he was invited to be a candidate for assistant minister at Second Congregational(East) Church in Salem, Massachusetts, where he served until his death. The senior minister was James Diman, a Calvinist, who opposed Bentley's appointment; Diman allowed him to preach but not to administer the sacraments. The congregation, however, preferred Bentley's more liberal views. He prized morality and good works over Calvinist grace and faith. He wrote twice-weekly columns for the Salem newspapers summarizing foreign and domestic news. He owned a very large library, second only to Thomas Jefferson's, and kept a diary all of his life. Dianne Shapiro, from "Annals of the American Pulpit" by William B. Sprague, Vol 8, New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1865; and "Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography" accessed 1/29/2017

W. Warren Bentley

Person Name: Wm. W. Bentley Composer of "[When tossed on life's tempestuous tide]" in Gospel Echoes

R. G. Staples

b. 1833 Author of "'Tis Sweet to Rest My Faith on Thee" in Joyful Songs Robert Griffin Staples. He was born Robert Griffin on January 24, 1833 in Washington DC. Both of his parents died in a carriage accident when he was an infant; he was then adopted by his mother's sister, Mary Ann King, and her husband, Samuel Johnson Staples and he was given the name Robert Griffin Staples. He was a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War and after the war was promoted to Major. He then worked as chief clerk in the Portsmouth United States Navy Yard. Religion was an important part of his life, as well as music. He died June 20, 1891 in Portsmouth, VA. Dianne Shapiro, from Jean Brickey (great-granddaughter)