O Listen to the Story

O listen to the story! So old, and yet so new

Author: Russell Kelso Carter
Tune: [O listen to the story]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Russell Kelso Carter

Russel Kelso Carter was a professor in the Pennsylvania Military College of Chester. While there he was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became very active in leading camp meetings and revivals. After failing health forced him to abandon this work, he studied and became a medical doctor as well as a writer. He wrote novels as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line: O listen to the story! So old, and yet so new
Title: O Listen to the Story
Author: Russell Kelso Carter
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O far beyond receiving
Publication Date: 1891
Copyright: This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.

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Hymns of the Christian Life #175

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