Fill Your Heart With the Word

Top Author Text Info Tune Timeline Page Scans Instances

Would you rescue the wrecked on life's sin tossed waves?

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [Would you rescue the wrecked on life's sin tossed waves?]
Published in 2 hymnals

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 >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Would you rescue the wrecked on life's sin tossed waves?
Title:	Fill Your Heart With the Word
Author:	John R. Clements
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	The word is a light
Copyright:	Public Domain