Wir ruh'n in Dir

Wir ruh'n in Dir, Du unser Schild und Retter

Author: Edith G. Cherry
Tune: [We rest on Thee our Shield]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Edith G. Cherry

Edith Adeline Gilling Cherry United Kingdom 1872-1897. Born at Plymouth, Devon, she was disabled from the age of 16 months by poliomyelitis and walked with crutches. The death of her only sister, who died at age 4, when Edith was age 6, devastated her. She had a gift for poetry and wrote much before the age of 15. She had friends who helped her supporting Sunday school work and the YWCA. She was a gifted illustrator of cards and porcelain which she neatly embellished with flower or fern sprays and Bible texts. Of her verse, she said, they were given to me and all I had to do was write them down. Some of her poems appeared in print in the periodical “The Christian”. She had two strokes in early life, and a 3rd, at age 25, took he… Go to person page >

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First Line: Wir ruh'n in Dir, Du unser Schild und Retter
Title: Wir ruh'n in Dir
English Title: We Rest On Thee (We rest on Thee, our Shield and our Defender)
Author: Edith G. Cherry
Language: German

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Rettungsjubel #120

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