“Saviour, Like a Shepherd Lead Us”: the children’s hymn that became everyone’s prayer
"Saviour, Like a Shepherd Lead Us" first appeared in 1836 in a collection of hymns for children compiled by Dorothy Ann Thrupp. With William Bradbury's tune,…
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Sweet Hour of Prayer: the hymn credited to a blind English preacher
Sweet Hour of Prayer was first published in 1845 in the New York Observer, credited to William Walford, a blind preacher from England. With a tune…
Written by an invalid who felt useless, sung at thousands of altar calls: “Just As I Am”
Charlotte Elliott, an English woman living with long-term illness, wrote "Just As I Am" in 1835. The hymn became the anthem of Billy Graham's crusades, sung…
The first song many children learn in Sunday school began as a poem in a novel: “Jesus Loves Me”
"Jesus Loves Me" first appeared as a poem in Say and Seal, an 1860 novel by Susan Warner, with the verse written by her sister Anna…