[I once was adrift on the sea deep and wide]

[I once was adrift on the sea deep and wide]

Composer: W. Howard Doane
Published in 1 hymnal


Composer: W. Howard Doane

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… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [I once was adrift on the sea deep and wide]
Composer: W. Howard Doane
Incipit: 53333 43252 11111

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Hymns of Victory #57

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