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Author: Dr. H. L. Gilmour Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When ling'ring on life's sloping verge Refrain First Line: Sav'd by grace, sav'd by grace Used With Tune: [When ling'ring on life's sloping verge]

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[When ling'ring on life's sloping verge]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Incipit: 13243 66551 55432 Used With Text: Saved by Grace

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Saved by Grace

Author: Dr. H. L. Gilmour Hymnal: Songs of Joy and Gladness #116 (1885) First Line: When ling'ring on life's sloping verge Refrain First Line: Sav'd by grace, sav'd by grace Languages: English Tune Title: [When ling'ring on life's sloping verge]

Saved by Grace

Author: Dr. H. L. Gilmour Hymnal: Songs of Joy and Gladness with Supplement #116 (1889) First Line: When ling'ring on life's sloping verge Refrain First Line: Sav'd by grace, sav'd by grace Languages: English Tune Title: [When ling'ring on life's sloping verge]

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H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Person Name: Dr. H. L. Gilmour Author of "Saved by Grace" in Songs of Joy and Gladness Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry

William J. Kirkpatrick

1838 - 1921 Person Name: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Composer of "[When ling'ring on life's sloping verge]" in Songs of Joy and Gladness William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia. Bert Polman