Traue auf Jesus

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Kommt, Seelen voller Sündenlast

Translator: E. C. Magaret; Author: John H. Stockton
Tune: STOCKTON (Stockton)
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Translator: E. C. Magaret

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Author: John H. Stockton

Stockton, John Hart, a Methodist minister, was born in 1813, and died in 1877. He was a member of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the successive pastoral charges that he filled as a member of that Conference are found in the Conference Journal. He was not only a preacher, but a musician and composer of tunes, as well as hymn writer. He published two gospel song books: Salvation Melodies, 1874, and Precious Songs, 1875. Hymn Writers of the Church by Charles Nutter, 1911… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	Kommt, Seelen voller Sündenlast
Title:	Traue auf Jesus
English Title:	Come, every soul by sin oppressed
Author:	John H. Stockton
Translator:	E. C. Magaret
Language:	German
Refrain First Line:	O vertraue, o vertraue
Copyright:	Public Domain

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STOCKTON (Stockton)

John H. Stockton (b. New Hope, PA, 1813; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1877) composed MINERVA for one of his own gospel-hymn texts, "Come, Every Soul by Sin Oppressed." The tune was published in his Salvation Melodies No.1 (1874); however, it had also been published earlier in Joyful Songs Nos. 1-3 Combined…

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