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Adjátok a szent Bibliát kezembe (Give me the Bible)

Appears in 3 hymnals Used With Tune: [Give me the Bible] (Lorenz)

[Give me the Bible] (Lorenz)

Appears in 46 hymnals Incipit: 35134 32231 56671 Used With Text: Adjátok a szent Bibliát kezembe (Give me the Bible)

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Give me the Bible, for I need its living promise

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: Goodly Pearls for the Sunday School #d30 (1875) Languages: English

Adjátok a szent Bibliát kezembe (Give me the Bible)

Hymnal: Small Church Music #7282 Languages: Hungarian Tune Title: [Give me the Bible] (Lorenz)

Give Me the Bible

Author: Priscilla J. Owens Hymnal: Christian Hymnsongs #11 (1965) First Line: Give me the Bible, star of gladness gleaming Refrain First Line: Give me the Bible, Holy message shining

1829 - 1907 Person Name: Priscilla J. Owens Author of "Give me the Bible, for I need its living promise" Owens, Priscilla Jane, was born July 21, 1829, of Scotch and Welsh descent, and is now (1906) resident at Baltimore, where she is engaged in public-school work. For 50 years Miss Owen has interested herself in Sunday-school work, and most of her hymns were written for children's services. Her hymn in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, "We have heard a joyful sound" (Missions), was written for a Sunday-school Mission Anniversary, and the words were adapted to the chorus "Vive le Roi" in the opera The Huguenots. [Rev. James Bonar, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix II (1907) ========================= Owens, Priscilla Jane. (July 21, 1829--December 5, 1907). Of Scottish and Welsh ancestry, she spent her entire life in Baltimore. She was a public school teacher there for 49 years. She was a member of the Union Square Methodist Church and took particular interest in its Sunday School. Her literary efforts, both in prose and poetry, appeared in such religious periodicals as the Methodist Protestant and the Christian Standard. --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives