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Men Who Walk in Folly's Way

Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Deliverance From Trouble Scripture: Psalm 107 Used With Tune: LUX PRIMA (GOUNOD)

Author: William R. Featherston Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 1,045 hymnals First Line: My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine Lyrics: ... mine; for thee all the follies of sin I resign; my ... Topics: Adoration; Love Our Love; Worship; liturgical Songs of Response

This is Why I Love My Savior

Author: D. S. Warner Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Shall I tell you why I ceased from folly? Used With Tune: [Shall I tell you why I ceased from folly?]

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[When deep in sin and folly]

Composer: J. H. Tenney Appears in 1 hymnal Incipit: 12334 33112 21231 Used With Text: He Blessed Me There

[Quit the paths of sin and folly]

Composer: L. M. Gordon Appears in 1 hymnal Incipit: 31556 16522 17123 Used With Text: Letting Jesus Lead

[Let folly praise what fancy loves]

Appears in 506 hymnals Tune Sources: Würtenburg Gesangbuch, 1784; Mainz Gesangbuch, 1853 Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 51765 13455 67122 Used With Text: A Child My Choice

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'Tis folly all - let me no more be told

Author: Madame Guyon; William Cowper Hymnal: Translations from the French of Madame de la Mothe Guion #1 (1800) First Line: "Tis folly all" let me no more be told Lyrics: 'Tis folly all—let me no more ... Languages: English

Let Folly Praise That Fancy Loves

Author: Robert Southwell, 1561-1595 Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #152 (1998) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics: 1 Let folly praise that fancy loves; I ... Topics: Christmas; Epiphany Scripture: Isaiah 49:1-7 Languages: English Tune Title: A PURPLE ROBE

What I Ought to Be

Author: T. H. Hymnal: Songs of Summerland #188 (1943) First Line: Weary of myself, my folly and my pride Refrain First Line: Make me what I ought to be Lyrics: 1 Weary of myself, my folly and my pride, Weary of ... Languages: English Tune Title: [Weary of myself, my folly and my pride]

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Lanta Wilson Smith

1856 - 1939 Author of "He Blessed Me There" in Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 Lanta Wilson Smith was born July 19, 1856 at Castine, Maine, and died October 19, 1939 at Taunton, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of a Methodist minister, William J. Wilson, and his wife Sedelia Follett. Her father belonged to the Maine, and later the East Maine Conferences from 1846 until 1866, when he with his family traveled in a covered wagon to the west, where he served as minister in Nebraska and Dakota. Later he returned to New England and founded out his sixty-four years in the ministry at an appointment in Hingham, Massachusetts. From her early childhood Lanta sang and played the organ in church and Sunday school wherever her father was located. When seventeen she attended Bucksport Seminary, Maine, where she received some instruction in music, and where she began to write stories for the church papers. When David C. Cook introduced music and hymns into his publications, Lanta began to write hymns, some of which were used by him. She received assistance from such prominent composers as T. Martin Towne and E. O. Excell. "Scatter Sunshine" [see link below] was perhaps her most popular hymn. It was set to music by Mr. Excell and became such a favorite that he wrote her, "My, my, how I wish you would write another hymn like that. It has proved such a success that I believe I will send you a draft for twenty-five dollars to let you know how much I appreciate the hymn. Possibly this will inspire you to write another equally as good." Mrs. T. M. Towne attended the Christian Endeavor Convention in Washington in 1896, and after her return she wrote Mrs. Smith: "It's wonderful how the great chorus sang your hymn "Scatter Sunshine". A missionary in Japan asked, "May I not have, in your handwriting and over your signature, your beautiful hymn "Scatter Sunshine"? The possession and care of such a kindly souvenir of yourself will often cause me to remember you with gratiude and bring to kindly remembrance the brightness your message has brought to many a life." This request was complied with. The hymn has been adopted as the official hymn of the National Sunshine Society. Shortly after the convention just referred to Mr. Towne sent her a subject - Heaven - and insisted that the last line of the chorus should be "Is Jesus high over them all?" She writes, - "To build up a verse to match a last line beginning with "Is" was something new, and he wanted it in a hurry." When he wrote back he said "Hurrah, I knew you could do it." Asa Hull was another voluminous composer for whom she wrote hymns. In 1880 Miss Wilson married Rev. C. Hartley Smith, and for twelve years they preached and ministered in Dakota. Both were musicians, and wherever they made calls, they were ask to sing some of the beloved hymns of the church. On returning east Mr. Smith joined the New England Southern Conference, and completed thirty-seven years of preaching. Mrs. Smith wrote more than five hundred poems, articles and hymns, the greater part of this number being hymns. Her songs were written for many occasions, Children's Day, Christmas and Easter; there were also temperance hymns and three cantatas. Of one of her songs, "The saints shall have dominion in the morning", Professor Black thought she was giving the saints too much, but when she sent him a large sheet of paper filled with Bible references to the saints, he replied, "I give up. The saints are in for a pretty good time." She left her singing voice out on the prairie, but continued to write even to her eightieth year. --http://heirloomsreunited.blogspot.com/2010/11/, posting a scan of her biography originally published in The Choir Herald, vol.50, n.6 (March 1947): 150-151.

E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Author of "Letting Jesus Lead" in Glory Bells Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA. John Perry

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Author of "Men Who Walk in Folly's Way" in The Cyber Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.