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Caleb Jarvis Taylor

Short Name: Caleb Jarvis Taylor
Full Name: Taylor, Caleb Jarvis, 1763-1817
Birth Year: 1763
Death Year: 1817

Caleb Jarvis Taylor was a Methodist minister, songwriter, author, and schoolteacher in Kentucky. Born Roman Catholic he converted before the age of 20. He organized early Methodist congregations in northeast Kentucky and supplied camp meeting songs during the Great Revival. He was born June 20, 1763, in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, and died June 6, 1816 in Maysville, Kentucky.

Chris Hoh, from "The Early Camp Meeting Song Writers," Methodist Quarterly Review, 1859, Vol. XLI, Fourth Series, XI, April, p 401-413; The History of Methodism in Kentucky by a. H. Redford, p 128-134; Mt. Gilead Methodist Meeting House," Hopewell Museum website (www.hopewellmuseum.org)


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Texts by Caleb Jarvis Taylor (24)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
O why this disconsolate frameCaleb Taylor (Author)6
Ah why this long and lingering painCaleb Jarvis Taylor (Author)2
Ah why thus shed the silent tearCaleb Jarvis Taylor (Author)1
Ah why will my dear little child be so crossCaleb Taylor (Author)1
Almighty love inspire My heart with sacred fireCaleb Taylor (Author)45
Brethren most near and sisters dearCaleb Jarvis Taylor (Author)English2
Come, all ye wandering pilgrims dearCaleb Taylor (Author)English5
Come all ye [you] Zion travelersCaleb Taylor (Author)6
Come, all ye mourning pilgrims, Who feel your need of ChristCaleb Taylor (Author)English15
Come, all you weary pilgrimsCaleb Jarvis Taylor (Author)1
Come and taste along with me, the weary pilgrims consolationCaleb Taylor (Author)14
Come, ye sinners, poor and needyCaleb Taylor (Author (refrain))English1
Don't you see my Jesus coming?Caleb Jarvis Taylor (Author)English36
Good morning, brother pilgrim, What, bound for Canaan's coast?Caleb Taylor (Author)English13
Heaven is a place of endless blissCaleb Jarvis Taylor (Author)English2
I love my blessed Savior, I feel I'm in His favorCaleb Taylor (Author)English14
Let sinners toil with ceaseless painCaleb Jarvis Taylor (Author)2
Lord, my ransomed soul adores theeCaleb Taylor (Author)4
O Jesus, my Friend, my adorable SaviorCaleb Jarvis Taylor (Author)1
O Jesus, my Savior, I know Thou art mineCaleb Taylor (Author)English41
Precious soul while Jesus calls theeCaleb Jarvis Taylor (Author)2
When shall I be delivered from sorrow and from sinCaleb Taylor (Author)3
While sorrows encompass me roundCaleb Taylor (Author)English18
Ye people who [that] wonder at me and my waysCaleb Taylor (Author)12
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