Alice Jane Janvrin

Short Name: Alice Jane Janvrin
Full Name: Janvrin, Alice Jane, 1846-1908
Birth Year: 1846
Death Year: 1908

Janvrin, Alice Jane, daughter of William Janvrin, was born in the island of Jersey on Dec. 13, 1846, but has resided mainly in England. She has written somewhat extensively for the Church Miss. Society and kindred associations. In 1903 she edited the letters of Bishop Ridley, late of New Caledonia, which was published as Snapshots from the North Pacific, and has done other work for the Church Missionary Society. Her hymns include the following:—
1. Great Jehovah, King of Nations. [Opening of Missionary Exhibitions.] Written in 1902, for missionary exhibitions.
2. He expecteth, He expecteth! [Missions.] For the annual anniversary of the C.M.S. Gleaners' Union Miss Janvrin has written a hymn each anniversary during the last ten years. This hymn was written for 1894, and first printed in the service sheet for the meeting. It was printed in the C.M.S. Gleaner, Oct. 1894, p. 159, and included in the Church Missionary Hymn Book, 1899, No. 12.
3. Lord, I know a work is waiting. [Missions.] Also written for the Gleaners' Union, 1898, and printed on the anniversary hymn-sheet. Given in the Church Missionary Hymn Book, 1899, No. 136.
4. Lord of all the ages of Eternity. [Missions.] Written for the Centenary of the C.M.S., in 1889, and sung, on that occasion, at the great gathering of children at the Albert Hall, London. Included in Dodderidge's Hymns for Church and Home, 1904, No. 140.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)


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