[Fairest of all the earth beside] (Ferguson)

[Fairest of all the earth beside] (Ferguson)

Composer: Manie Payne Ferguson (1904)
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Composer: Manie Payne Ferguson

Manie Payne Ferguson United Kingdom 1850-1932. Born in Carlow, Ireland, in 1883 she married Theodore Pollock Ferguson, a past Presbyterian minister from Ohio, who had become an itinerant evangelical preacher. They moved to Los Angeles, CA, in 1885. He became a pioneer leader in the American Holiness Movement, a Christian evangelist, and social worker, founding, along with her husband, the non-denominational Peniel Mission in 1886. In 1894 they received a significant financial donation from George Studd allowing them to expand the mission. They constructed a 900-seat auditorium and ministry centre there in Los Angeles. They partnered with Studd and Phineas Bresee, each acting as a superintendent of the mission organization. In 1894 D… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Fairest of all the earth beside] (Ferguson)
Composer: Manie Payne Ferguson (1904)
Incipit: 55555 15566 66654
Key: B♭ Major
Source: The Finest of the Wheat No. 3, by John R. Sweney, et al. (Chicago, Illinois: George D. Elderkin Publishing Company, 1904)
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #6591
Text: That Man of Calvary
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The Cyber Hymnal #6591

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