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[O matchless, marvelous grace of God!]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lucy J. Rider Meyer Hymnal Title: Songs of Grace and Glory Incipit: 55654 33211 46532 Used With Text: My Grace is Sufficient

Author: Julia H. Johnston Appears in 7 hymnals Hymnal Title: Songs of Grace and Glory First Line: O matchless, marvelous grace of God! Refrain First Line: My grace is sufficient for thee Lyrics: 1 Oh, matchless, marvelous grace of God! Oh, royal, kingly Word! In toil and trial, grief and loss, This promise sweet is heard. Refrain: My grace is sufficient for thee, My grace is sufficient for thee, Oh, precious, precious grace of God, My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 “Sufficient grace,” the record stands, Hast thou thine own received? Thy faith shall measure thy supply, Hast thou indeed believed? [Refrain] 3 For thee, for thee, oh, wondrous word! Thy utmost need supplied, Though thousand others claim the boon, Thou shalt be satisfied. [Refrain] 4 The witness of ten thousand saints Confirms the promise blest, Let now the pow’r of this same word In me be manifest! [Refrain] Topics: Comfort; Grace; Promise Used With Tune: [O matchless, marvelous grace of God!]

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My Grace Is Sufficient

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: Gathered Jewels #46 (1886) Hymnal Title: Gathered Jewels First Line: O matchless, marvelous grace of God! Refrain First Line: My grace is sufficient for thee Languages: English Tune Title: [O matchless, marvelous grace of God!]

My Grace Is Sufficient for Thee

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: Pearls of Gospel Song #134 (1884) Hymnal Title: Pearls of Gospel Song First Line: O matchless, marvellous grace of God Languages: English Tune Title: [O matchless, marvellous grace of God]

My Grace is Sufficient

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: Songs of Grace and Glory #66 (1918) Hymnal Title: Songs of Grace and Glory First Line: O matchless, marvelous grace of God! Refrain First Line: My grace is sufficient for thee Lyrics: 1 Oh, matchless, marvelous grace of God! Oh, royal, kingly Word! In toil and trial, grief and loss, This promise sweet is heard. Refrain: My grace is sufficient for thee, My grace is sufficient for thee, Oh, precious, precious grace of God, My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 “Sufficient grace,” the record stands, Hast thou thine own received? Thy faith shall measure thy supply, Hast thou indeed believed? [Refrain] 3 For thee, for thee, oh, wondrous word! Thy utmost need supplied, Though thousand others claim the boon, Thou shalt be satisfied. [Refrain] 4 The witness of ten thousand saints Confirms the promise blest, Let now the pow’r of this same word In me be manifest! [Refrain] Topics: Comfort; Grace; Promise Tune Title: [O matchless, marvelous grace of God!]

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Julia H. Johnston

1849 - 1919 Hymnal Title: Songs of Grace and Glory Author of "My Grace is Sufficient" in Songs of Grace and Glory Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Lucy Rider Meyer

1849 - 1922 Person Name: Lucy J. Rider Meyer Hymnal Title: Songs of Grace and Glory Composer of "[O matchless, marvelous grace of God!]" in Songs of Grace and Glory Lucy Jane Rider Meyer MD USA 1849-1922. Born at New Haven, VT, she became an author, social worker, teacher, and physician. She attended the New Hampton Literary Institution (a college prep school) and the Upham Theological Seminary. She also went to Oberlin College, graduating in 1872 with her degree in literary studies. In 1873 she entered the Women’s Medical College of PA, but withdrew after two years. She intended to become a Methodist medical missionary, but changed her mind after her then-fiance died in 1875. She did not get her medical degree until 1887, when she obtained it from the Women’s Medical College of Chicago. In 1884 she taught Bible at the Dwight L Moody Young Ladies Seminary, Northfield, MA. In 1885 she met and married a Chicago Methodist pastor and businessman, Rv Josiah Shelley Meyer (1849-1926), also Assistant Secretary for the YMCA in Chicago. He had great business acumen. She called him “Papa”.. he called her “Jennie”. They had a son, Shelly. Lucy became an educator, serving as principal of the Troy Conference Academy in Poultney, VT. After studying chemistry at M.I.T. (1877-78), she became a professor of chemistry for two years at McKendree Coillege in Lebanon, IL (1879-81). She did not wish to continue teaching chemistry. She was a good illustrator and later wrote an introductory book for children about chemistry, titled ‘The fairy land of chemistry’ (1887). From 1881-1884 she served as field secretary fror the IL State Sunday School Association and attended the 1880 World Sunday School Convention in London, England. She felt that people wanting to become religious teachers needed better training. In 1885 she and her husband opened the ‘Chicago Training School for City, Home, and Foreign Missions’. She was its first principal (1885-1917) and her husband its first superintendent. The school trained young women, offering a broad curriculum of Bible study, theology, church history, economics, sociology, and basic medical training. There was some adversity to the school by outsiders, thinking a women’s place was in the home. She is credited with reviving the office of the female deacon (or deaconess) in the U.S. Methodist Episcopal Church. In faith, she was liberal, while he was more conservative, believing the Bible should be taught literally. He did most of that teaching at the school, insisting on its interpretation as written. In 1887 Meyer began preparing some women students of her school to become deacons, with a mission of working in tenement communities. She set up the Methodist Deaconess Home and appointed her former student, Isabella Thoburn, as the first house mother and superintendent, even designing a uniform for the new women deacons. In 1888 the Methodist Episcopal Church recognized the office of deaconess. A similar school was set up in Boston, MA in 1889, with another following in Toronto, Canada in 1894. They took vacations, but she preferred a wilderness environment and he did not, so they had one wilderness vacation property and later another retreat in MI, closer to Chicago, to compromise on both travel distance and environment. She edited a periodical called ‘The message’ and later changed its name to ‘The deaconess advocate’, (1884-1914). In 1889 she published a history of the female diaconate: ‘Deaconesses: Biblical, early church, European, American’. In 1908 she founded the Methodist Deaconess Association. She and her husband resigned from the Chicago Training School in 1917, having graduated over 5000 students, but thinking they could not continue with the school as their opinions for its operation were becoming more and more divergent. They moved to CA for a year and enjoyed their retirement, she suffering from several debilitating maladies, but got much of her strength back as a result. They returned to Chicago and tried to help their school in various ways for the next couple of years. Her health eventually worsened and she died. He returned to the west coast, but never really got over losing his wife. The school later merged with the Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, IL. She is credited with initiating 40 institutions/homes for unfortunates. She died in Chicago. She published five works. John Perry