William M. Runyan

William M. Runyan
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Short Name: William M. Runyan
Full Name: Runyan, William M. (William Marion), 1870-1957
Birth Year: 1870
Death Year: 1957

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.

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Texts by William M. Runyan (128)sort ascendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Youth looking upward and onward todayWm. M. Runyan (Author)English2
Yonder the promiseWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Wounded for our transgressionsWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
Word of God, O sacred treasureWilliam M. Runyan (Author)3
Wonderful it is that Jesus cares for meWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
Why struggle on unaided when the tide about you flows?William M. Runyan (Author)English2
When the clouds over hanging have darkened the dayW. M. R. (Author)English2
When the calls of duty are urging onWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English5
When, O, when art Thou comingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English5
When Jesus first came to my heart to abideWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English5
What a glorious day for meWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
We thank Thee for the brawny armW. M. R. (Author)English2
We sing about heaven, its glory and gleamWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
We journey, it may be, through tempest and rainWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
We cannot hope that every dayWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
We are the treasures of Christ the KingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English7
Walking with my blessed Savior here belowWilliam M. Runyan (Author)3
Upon the sea where our good ship sailsWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Up from the misty vales they goWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
'Twas God's own Son who came to earthWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English8
Too long in the darkness our pathway has beenW. M. R. (Author)English2
To Thy temple holy Come we now with praiseWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English5
Thy kingdom come, is the prayer we are taught to prayW. M. R. (Author)English8
Through ages long swept by the tempests of doubtWilliam M. Runyan (Author)4
Though in life's stress thy heart aweary beW. M. R. (Author)English2
Though the way seem long, the burden hard to bearWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
Though my way be swept with stormWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Though foes assail us on the fieldW. M. R. (Author)English6
Though a pilgrim and stranger hereWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
This be our task on life's long rugged wayWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
They were in the place of waitingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)4
They tell me there is one who knows my needW. M. R. (Author)English4
There is a fold where all secure they lieWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
The voice of God is calling me in ways I can but hearWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
The songs of the world may be manyWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
The peace that like a river flowsWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
The gospel of the grace of GodWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
The fields are white for harvest now, And souls before the Lord should bowWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
The angels sang at the Savior's birthWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
Tell it all to Jesus when the day goes wrongWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Sweet morning comes with light and dewW. M. Runyan (Author)English2
Souls are all about us, Knowing not the LordWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
Some say it is a fable and that Jesus never cameWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
Soldiers of Jesus, clad in God's bright armorWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
So long have God's servants been callingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Since Jesus came, my night is turned to dayW. M. R. (Author)English2
Since Jesus bore my weight of sorrowWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Sang the angels long agoWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Revive Thy work, O Lord! Fill now each waiting heartWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Proclaim the glad tidings to earth's farthest nationsW. M. R. (Author)English2
Prayer is the breath of the soul's deep lifeWilliam M. Runyan (Author)4
Our lives are read by those who lookWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Our light has grown dim and our hearts have grown coldWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English5
Our God hath given promiseWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English11
ஓர் தாய் தன் பிள்ளையை அன்பாக (Ōr tāy taṉ piḷḷaiyai aṉpāka)William M. Runyan (Author)Tamil2
Only a little while for the love's sweet serviceW. M. R. (Author)English2
O, there is a way, and it is the sure wayW. M. R. (Author)English2
O the joy that here we may walk with JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
O tell me more of Jesus' loveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
O church of Jesus, thy true sons honor theeWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Not the love that I have had for JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Near, near to Thee, help us to liveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
"My grace is sufficient," O, wondrous wordWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Memory whispers to me nowWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Many are waiting in darkness and sinWilliam M. Runyan (Author)1
Lord, when to Thee our grieved hearts goWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Lord, I have shut the door, Speak now the wordWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English26
Long time I wandered, wandered from JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Live for others while on earth you liveW. M. Runyan (Author)2
Like as a mother comfortethWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English11
Like a strain of sweetest musicWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English6
Like a life line flung over the raging seaW. M. R. (Author)English2
Just as you are there's a welcome for youW. M. R. (Author)English9
Just a little while ere the last long mileWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
Jesus will keep me by power divineWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English5
It was night within my soul when JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
It is not far to the place of pardonW. M. R. (Author)English2
Into the garden where shadows were creepingW. M. R. (Author)English2
In the way our fathers trodWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
In the midst of the heavenly home landWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
In the glory that shone from the cross one dayWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
In the fold were the ninety and nineWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
In my heart a song is ringing, echoing God's loveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
In childhood's morn of brimming gleeWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
I'm the child of the King of kingsWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smileWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English7
I will do what I can for my Savior todayWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
I never have known so true a friend as JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
I marvel, O, I marvel soW. M. R. (Author)English2
I have Jesus in my heart, HallelujahWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
I cannot understand how God could love meWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
I can see it in my dreaming, that sweet land of strange reposeWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
I am yielding all to TheeW. M. R. (Author)English2
I am sure of a home in heavenWilliam M. Runyan (Author)3
I am on the heavenly highway, With the Savior as my guideWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English12
How still are the waters where Jesus doth gatherW. M. R. (Author)English3
He loves, He saves, He keepsWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
He has it all, the struggle pastW. M. R. (Author)English2
He cannot reject meWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
He came to me one day, this wondrous JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
Have you heard of that wonderful story so trueW. M. Runyan (Author)English2
Hail, King of glory, hail, Lord of loveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Hail, blest Redeemer! Thy praises bringingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English7
God's wondrous grace! O how shall mortal tongue declareWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
God will not forget me, wherever my path may lieWilliam M. Runyan (Author)4
From the sins that scar and the things that marW. M. R. (Author)English3
From the hills of far Judea, from the shores of GalileeW. M. R. (Author)English2
From Olive's Hill, the multitude upgazingW. M. R. (Author)English9
From Heaven above, in His infinite loveW. M. R. (Author)English15
Forward still, with face full forwardWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
Forgiven greatly, Lord, am IWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
For the mercy Jesus will bestowWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Far from the fold of GodWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, With all Thy quickening powersW. M. R. (Author (Chorus))English1
Christ is from the grave ascendedW. M. R. (Author)English2
Can we know that Jesus saves usWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English13
Called by the grace that Thy love doth extendW. M. R. (Author)English2
Bend Thou all graciously, Father aboveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Before the march of Christ the MightyWilliam M. Runyan (Author)3
Be loyal, O, be loyalW. M. R. (Author)English2
At Calvary's cross where the cleansing tideWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
As night that flees from the morning sunW. M. R. (Author)English2
As a shepherd good and trueWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
All will be over, every grief and sorrowW. M. R. (Author)English2
All that my soul in its sin can needWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English9
After the toil and the burdenWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Afar over the harvest field we roamW. M. R. (Author)English2
A closer walk with JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
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