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Will You Do What You Can?

Author: Charles Walker Ray Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Will you do what you can for the lost in sin?

[Will you do what you can for the lost in sin?]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. Edw. Prior Incipit: 12334 51655 56544 Used With Text: Will You Do What You Can?

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Author: C. W. Ray Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.1 #198 (1887) First Line: Will you do what you can for the lost in sin? Refrain First Line: Will you do whate'er you can for the sinner unforgiv'n? Lyrics: 1 Will you do what you can for the lost in sin? Will you seek for those who have gone astray? Will you watch, will you pray, will you strive to win Ev’ry wand’rer from the world’s highway? Refrain: Will you do whate’er you can for the sinner unforgiv’n? Will you bring them to the Saviour while you may? Will you mark the narrow path to the shining courts of heav’n? Will you lead them, will you keep them in the way? 2 Will you do what you can for the halt and blind, who my grope their way in the midnight gloom? Will you bear forth a light for the darkened mind? Will you warn and save from the coming doom? [Refrain] 3 Will you do what you can that they may believe In the Saviour’s name, and be truly blest? Will you do what you can that they may receive Of his wondrous grace, and enjoy his rest? [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Will you do what you can for the lost in sin?]

Will You Do What You Can?

Author: C. W. Ray Hymnal: Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #206 (1890) First Line: Will you do what you can for the lost in sin? Refrain First Line: Will you do whate'er you can for the sinner unforgiv'n? Languages: English Tune Title: [Will you do what you can for the lost in sin?]

People

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Charles Edward Prior

1856 - 1927 Person Name: Chas. Edw. Prior Composer of "[Will you do what you can for the lost in sin?]" in Triumphant Songs No.1 Charles Edward Prior, 1856-1927 Prior played the piano at the Italian Baptist Mission in Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 19th Century. Music-- Go Stand and Speak Work for Us All --hymntime.com/tch

Charles Walker Ray

1832 - 1917 Person Name: C. W. Ray Author of "Will You Do What You Can?" in Triumphant Songs No.1 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