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W. G. Cooper

Short Name: W. G. Cooper
Full Name: Cooper, W. G. (William Gustin), 1861-
Birth Year: 1861
Death Year: 1938

Rv William Gustin Cooper USA 1861-1938. Born in Evansville, WI, he married Mabel Luella Cooper. He became a Baptist minister having pastorates in Hortonville Village, WI, 1897 – 1901, and later in Ira, VT, in 1922. He also conducted camp meetings. He wrote a number of hymn lyrics and a few tunes. He died in Canton, ME.

Note: In a campmeeting service in 1889, when the service was over, a lyricist, Warren Cornell, sat writing a poem. As he left the site, he dropped the paper he was writing and didn't notice it. An hour or or so later, Rev. Cooper came in to tidy up the tent area for the next service, saw the paper, picked it up and read it, and was so inspired by the words, that he finished writing the text and went to the organ and composed the tune for the hymn, “Wonderful peace”.

John Perry


Texts by W. G. Cooper (106)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Earth has its many cloudsW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
God give you in fullness His SpiritW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Have you not heard of a happy homeW. G. Cooper (Author)English4
I shall reach the landW. G. Cooper (Author)English5
In Scotland stood a humble homeW. G. Cooper (Author)English2
It is not, Lord, for me to chooseW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Methinks, when bursts upon my raptured earEld. W. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Now as evening shadows hoverW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
O how sweet it will be to be thereW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
On the world He redeemed, lo, the Savior looks downW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Preach the gospel, tell the storyW. G. Cooper (Author)English5
Tenderly care for the childrenW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
The Lord Jehovah reigns, And over His vast domainW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
The soul is a wonderful templeW. G. Cooper (Author)English4
Thou, God of majesty and powerEld. W. G. Cooper (Author)English1
'Tis a wondrous contemplationW. G. C. (Author)English2
What wondrous fields of beautyW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
When we meet beyond the river, Where triumphant throngsEld. W. G. Cooper (Author)English1
A marvelous gospel, and one you needW. G. Cooper (Author)English4
A sinner doomed to die, To ruin drawing nighW. G. C. (Author)English4
A stranger and a foreignerW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
A world of wondrous beauty I shall graceW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Again we come with birds and flowersW. G. Cooper (Author)1
Aged and wayworn, of glory adreamingEld. W. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Around thee, blessed SaviorRev. W. G. Cooper (Author)English1
As you travel o'er life's pathwayRev. W. G. Cooper (Author)2
Blessed Jesus, make me holyW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
Blessed thought, how sweet to ponderRev. W. G. Cooper (Author)0
Can a boy forget his mother (Cooper)W. G. Cooper (Author)English3
Come to me, come to me, Hear the Savior pleadingW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
Dear Lord, I give myself to Thee, Forever Thine to beW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
Dear Lord, increase my faith, I prayW. G. C. (Adapter)English4
We wake each morn as if the Maker's graceW. G. C. (Arranger)English1
Examine thyself, dear sinnerW. G. Cooper (Author)2
Go gather them in from the byways of sinW. G. Cooper (Author)English2
Go work with your might, Lo! the harvest is waitingW. G. Cooper (Author)English2
Have you not heard of that beautiful homeW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
I am weary, Lord, and the day seems longW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
I have been to Jesus for rest todayRev. W. G. Cooper (Author)3
I know not why there's death and sighsRev. W. G. Cooper (Author)0
I was an outcast once a sinner lostW. G. Cooper (Author)2
If all those things we value mostW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
If of those unpictured gloriesW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
I'm glad that my Savior from heaven came downRev. W. G. Cooper (Author)1
In looking back over the years gone byW. G. Cooper (Author)English5
In the conflict now being waged with sinW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
In the evanescent beauty of the early morning's glowW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
In the sight of God, I'm a sinner, lostW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
In the way of truth and lightEld. W. G. Cooper (Author)English2
I've a message true and grandW. G. Cooper (Author)English2
I've the blest assurance in my heart todayRev. W. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Jesus has saved me, how wondrous the thoughtW. G. Cooper (Author)English2
Jesus, Lord, may my conceptionW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Jesus, my soul delights to adore theeRev. W. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Jesus stands at mercy's gateRev. W. G. Cooper (Author)1
Keep close to Jesus, while your journey here belowW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
Let us bury our sadness and banish our tearsW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Life has its sorrows, it has its tearsW. G. Cooper (Author)2
Lo, my name is written in the Lamb's book of lifeW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
Lo, the midnight hour swiftly hastens onEld. W. G. Cooper (Author)English2
Lord, to my wayward heartW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
My life is filled with blessingsW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Nearer, loving Savior, Draw me to Thy breast (Cooper)Rev. W. G. Cooper (Author)English1
No righteous works which I have doneW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
O, cling to the Bible, the book God has givenW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
O how precious is the wordW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
O I often sit and ponder, when the sun is sinking lowW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
O listen, do you hear?W. G. Cooper (Author)English2
O my Savior hear me, Fears encompass meW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
O the soul is like a garden overgrownW. G. Cooper (Author)English2
Oft hard to bear the toil and struggle hereRev. W. G. Cooper (Author)English2
O I love the gospel songWilliam Gustin Cooper (Author)English2
O I often sit and wonder as the years are rolling byRev. W. G. C. (Author)English2
O wonderful, wonderful story, The sweetest that ever was toldW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
On a night all dark and lonelyW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
One only name in earth or heaven is givenW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
One step at a time, Life's mountain we climbW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Our life is like an upward gradeW. G. Cooper (Author)English5
Overwhelmed with amazement at Jesus I gazeW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Rushing down the mountainW. G. Cooper (Author)2
Sinner, art thou weary, of a life of sin?W. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Sinner, Christ to you is sayingW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Sinner, come, O comeW. G. Cooper (Author)1
Some day to earth I'll bid adieuW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Sunlight now is gleaming, On the sparkling dewsW. G. Cooper (Author)English4
Sunned with cloudless hopes of gloryW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Surrender to Jesus, just nowW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
Surrender to Jesus todayW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
The Savior died on Calvary, And shed His precious blood for meW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
The soul unforgiven, all sad and wanW. G. Cooper (Arranger)English3
There are many who struggle and toilW. G. Cooper (Author)1
There is a home whose grandeur has to mortals never been toldW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
There was a time I know, when in the book of heavenW. G. Cooper (Alterer)English1
Trustworthy and true, and will you ever doW. G. C. (Author)English1
'Twas wondrous grace that saved my soulW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
Wafted down the ages, lo, there comes a joyous strainW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
We need not wait until we pass Up through the pearly portalsW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
What will you do with Jesus, Who gave for you His all?W. G. Cooper (Author)English3
When in the far distant ages gone byRev. W. G. Cooper (Author)0
When Jesus first saved me, I knew not what testsW. G. Cooper (Author)English1
When shall close the earth's long ages, Christ shall come to claim His ownW. G. Cooper (Author)English5
When the gorgeous tints of morningW. G. Cooper (Author)English4
When you strive to do a deedW. G. Cooper (Author)2
While sitting by my lonely firesideRev. W. G. C. (Author)English3
Whiter than the snow, dear Jesus, make meW. G. Cooper (Author)English8
Would you reach some useful plainW. G. Cooper (Author)English3
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