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Lynda Faye

Person Name: L. F. Author of "Don't Ever Let Go Of My Hand" in Special Sacred Selections Linda Faye England

Joseph Fayez

Person Name: Joseph Fayez جوزيف فايز Author of "صليبي كان بدالك" جوزيف فايز

Maher Fayez

Person Name: Maher Fayez ماهر فايز Author of "في ابنه" ماهر فايز

Shadi Fayez

Person Name: Shadi Fayez شادي فايز Author of "فأنت كل ما أريد" شادي فايز

1867 - 1932 Person Name: J. S. F. Author of "As a Father" in Loyal Praise John Sylvester Fearis, 1867-1932 Born: February 5, 1867, Richland, Iowa. Died: September 2, 1932, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Fearis’ father was a successful singing school teacher, and a painter by trade. At a young age, John learned to read music in his father’s classes. He was passionately fond of music, and, taking lessons on the reed organ, he was soon able to play in Sunday school and church. Later he took charge of the church choir, and taught singing classes in nearby towns. He wrote his first hymn tune at age 16. He eventually joined the editorial staff of the Choir Leader, published by the Lorenz Publishing Company in Dayton, Ohio. Sources-- Choir Herald, December 1932, p. 219 Emurian, p. 17 Hall, pp. 393-4 Lyrics-- Brightly Beams Another Morning Children’s Day Show Me the Way, My Shepherd What Comfort to Our Hearts What Wonderful Love Is the Love Music-- Be Thou Exalted Beautiful Isle of Somewhere God May Call for You Little Raindrops Promise Made to Mother, The Songs in the Night Show Me the Way, My Shepherd There’s Light for a Step Wherever He Leads Me I’ll Go --hymntime.com/tch

Mary Feary

Author of "O, be glad, ye children, blessed little children" in The Evergreen 19th Century We have little data on this author, except that Feary was her maiden name. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Melodie Feather

Editor of "" in Come Sing a Song with Me

William R. Featherston

1846 - 1873 Person Name: William R. Featherstone Author of "My Jesus, I Love Thee" in Favorite Hymns of Praise William Ralph Featherston(e) Canada 1846-1873. Born at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church there. He became a Christian at age 16 while in Toronto, and is thought to have written his famous hymn about the same time. He sent the poem to his aunt, Ms. E. Featherston Wilson and she gave it to a publisher. Adoniram. J Gordon, an evangelist, founder of Gordon College & Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, found the hymn in a 1870 London hymnal and was impressed with the words, but did not like the tune, so he composed the melody that has been used with the hymn ever since. Featherstone is thought to have married Julie R MacAlister in 1869 and that they had a son, John, in 1870. Featherstone died in Montreal at age 26. John Perry