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Keep Us, Lord, We Pray

Author: Charles Walker Ray Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Father, while we this service close Refrain First Line: Keep us, we pray Thee

[Father, while we this service close]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. Doane Incipit: 33211 12165 11234 Used With Text: Keep Us, Lord, We Pray

[Great God, while we this Service close]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. Martigny Incipit: 54531 66655 55556 Used With Text: Keep Us, We Pray

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Author: C. W. Ray Hymnal: Jubilant Voices for Sunday Schools and Devotional Meetings #251 (1905) First Line: Father, while we this service close Refrain First Line: Keep us, we pray thee Topics: Closing Languages: English Tune Title: [Father, while we this service close]

Keep us, we pray Thee

Author: C. W. Ray Hymnal: The Praise Hymnal #44 (1896) First Line: Great God, while we this service close Languages: English Tune Title: [Great God, while we this service close]

Keep Us, We Pray

Author: Rev. C. W. Ray Hymnal: Sunny-Side Songs for Sunday Schools #174 (1893) First Line: Great God, while we this Service close Refrain First Line: Keep us, we pray Thee Languages: English Tune Title: [Great God, while we this Service close]

People

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W. Howard Doane

1832 - 1915 Person Name: W. H. Doane Composer of "[Father, while we this service close]" in Jubilant Voices for Sunday Schools and Devotional Meetings An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman ============ Doane, William Howard, p. 304, he was born Feb. 3, 1832. His first Sunday School hymn-book was Sabbath Gems published in 1861. He has composed about 1000 tunes, songs, anthems, &c. He has written but few hymns. Of these "No one knows but Jesus," "Precious Saviour, dearest Friend," and "Saviour, like a bird to Thee," are noted in Burrage's Baptist Hymn Writers. 1888, p. 557. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =================== Doane, W. H. (William Howard), born in Preston, Connecticut, 1831, and educated for the musical profession by eminent American and German masters. He has had for years the superintendence of a large Baptist Sunday School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resides. Although not a hymnwriter, the wonderful success which has attended his musical setting of numerous American hymns, and the number of his musical editions of hymnbooks for Sunday Schools and evangelistic purposes, bring him within the sphere of hymnological literature. Amongst his collections we have:— (1) Silver Spray, 1868; (2) Pure Gold, 1877; (3) Royal Diadem, 1873; (4) Welcome Tidings, 1877; (5) Brightest and Best, 1875; (6) Fountain of Song; (7) Songs of Devotion, 1870; (8) Temple Anthems, &c. His most popular melodies include "Near the Cross," "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," "Pass me Not," "More Love to Thee," "Rescue the Perishing," "Tell me the Old, Old Story," &c. - John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Charles Walker Ray

1832 - 1917 Author of "Keep Us, Lord, We Pray" Rv Charles Walker Ray DD USA 1832-1917. Born at Otselic, NY, he became a Baptist minister. He was educated at Hamlton College, Clinton, NY. He earned his doctorate from Monongahela College, Jefferson, PA. That school closed in 1894. He pastored at North Stonington, CT, for a number of years. He also served at Plymouth, NY. He married Julia Tracy Sheffield, and they had a son, Arthur. He wrote a number of books and song books: “Grace Vernon Bussell, the heroine of western Australia” (1878); “Spicy breezes” (1883); “The day school crown” (1892); “The revival helper: a collection of songs for Christian work and worship” (1893); “Bright blossoms of song” (1895); “Zion’s delight” (1901); “The song of songs of the King and his bride-an interpretation” (1913); “The fallacies and vagaries of misinterpretation” (1914). He died at Philadelphia, PA. John Perry