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Raniville, Francis O. Businessman, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield, Mich., and the Todd School in Woodstock, Illinois. After a year at Albion College, he went into his father's business.

--The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives

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Francis O. Raniville is a business man in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he has lived all his life. He attended the Central High School there, and later attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield, Michigan, and the Todd School in Woodstock, Illinois. After a year at Albion College, he went into his father's business in Grand Rapids where he still remains. He is one of the top ranking table tennis players in the United States. Table tennis and poetry are his hobbies. He has written a number of hymns and poems which are expressive of the deep religious experience which has come to him. This Bible hymn is the first of his hymns which has been published by the Hymn Society.

--Fifteen New Bible Hymns, 1966. Used by permission.