1810 - 1879 Author of "To thee, O gracious Father, my new year's hymn" Ranyard, Ellen, née White, b. 1811, d. 1879. Two hymns by this writer (sometimes signed “L. N. R.") are given in Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory, 1872, with the following dates: (1) "Mark that long dark line of shadows" (The Present Opportunity), 1861; (2) "To Thee, O gracious Father" (New Year), 1866.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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