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MISSIONER

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Grace Wilbur Conant Incipit: 51512 37373 45565 Used With Text: The Word of God must go

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The Word of God must go

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: MISSIONER

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Go, Ye Who Bear the Word!

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Hymnal: Hymns for Junior Worship #88 (1940) First Line: The Word of God must go Languages: English Tune Title: MISSIONER
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The Word of God must go

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Hymnal: Junior Church School Hymnal #145 (1927) Languages: English Tune Title: MISSIONER

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Nancy Byrd Turner

1880 - 1971 Author of "The Word of God must go" in Junior Church School Hymnal Turner, Nancy Byrd. Born in Boydton, Virginia, July 29, 1880, daughter of Byrd Thornton Turner and Nancy Addison (Harrison) Turner. Composed her first verse at three. First published verse at age of 8--a romantic ballad, "Ruth in the Dentist's Chair" (he fell in love). Her father was an Episcopal minister; they lived in about a dozen small towns or rural communities during her childhood. In 1916, she went to Boston and joined the staff of Youth's Companion. She wrote under many pen names, and published in several magazines. She won numerous awards, including the "Golden Rose" of the New England Poetry Society and the Lyric Associates award of 1951. --Letter from Turner Rose to Jean Woodward Steele, Westminster Press, 1 February 1974, DNAH Archives.

Grace Wilbur Conant

1858 - 1948 Composer of "MISSIONER" in Junior Church School Hymnal Pseudonym: A. B. Ponsonby. Born: Sep­tem­ber 9, 1858, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts. Died: Ap­ril 7, 1948, Malden, Mass­a­chu­setts. Grace re­mained sin­gle all her life. Her mid­dle name was her mo­ther’s maid­en name. She served as mu­sic­al ed­it­or for the Kin­der­gar­ten Review for at least six years, star­ting in 1908. Her works in­clude: Songs for Lit­tle Peo­ple, with Fran­ces Weld Dan­i­el­son (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: The Pil­grim Press, 1905) Worship and Song, with Ben­ja­min S. Win­ches­ter (Pilg­rim Press, 1913) Religious Dan­gers of Mo­dern Ten­den­cies in So-Called Re­li­gious Songs, 1917 Song and Play for Child­ren, with Fran­ces Weld Dan­iel­son (Pil­grim Press, 1925) --The Cyber Hymnal