Was it with power

When you spoke to the sinner

Author: John R. Clements
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. 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:	When you spoke to the sinner
Title:	Was it with power
Author:	John R. Clements
Refrain First Line:	If ye abide in me, 'Twas thus that Jesus spake
Copyright:	Public Domain