I do not plead [pray] because I would

I do not plead [pray] because I would

Author: John W. Chadwick
Tune: HEBER (Kingsley)
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: John W. Chadwick

Chadwick, John White, was born at Marblehead, Mass., U.S., Oct. 19, 1840; graduated at the Cambridge Divinity School, July 19, 1864, and ordained minister of the Second Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 21, 1864. A frequent contributor to the Christian Examiner; The Radical; Old and New; Harper's Magazine; and has published many poems in American periodicals. His hymn on Unity, "Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round," was written for the graduating class of the Divinity School, Cambridge, June 19, 1864. It is in Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884. It is a hymn of superior merit. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line: I do not plead [pray] because I would
Author: John W. Chadwick
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy #387

Universal Hymns #69

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