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["Take up thy cross," the Saviour said]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. B. McKinney Incipit: 56716 17711 11232 Used With Text: Follow the Living Christ

Author: B. B. McK.; C. W. Everest Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: "Take up thy cross," the Saviour said Refrain First Line: Follow, follow Used With Tune: ["Take up thy cross," the Saviour said]

Instances

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Follow the Living Christ

Author: B. B. McK.; C. W. Everest Hymnal: Voice of Praise #234 (1947) First Line: "Take up thy cross," the Saviour said Refrain First Line: Follow, follow Languages: English Tune Title: ["Take up thy cross," the Saviour said]

Follow the Living Christ

Author: C. W. Everest; B. B. McK. Hymnal: Look and Live Songs #142 (1945) First Line: "Take up thy cross," the Saviour said Refrain First Line: Follow, follow Languages: English Tune Title: ["Take up thy cross," the Saviour said]

People

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B. B. McKinney

1886 - 1952 Person Name: B. B. McK. Author of "Follow the Living Christ" in Voice of Praise Pseudonyms-- Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin) Otto Nellen Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh) ----- Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942. McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Worth, where Isham E. Reynolds asked him to join the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He taught at the seminary until 1932, then pastored in at the Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth (1931–35). In 1935, McKinney became music editor for the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee. McKinney wrote words and music for about 150 songs, and music for 115 more. --© Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Charles William Everest

1814 - 1877 Person Name: C. W. Everest Author of "Follow the Living Christ" in Voice of Praise Everest, Charles William, M.A., born at East Windsor, Connecticut, May 27, 1814, graduated at Trinity College, Hartford, 1838, and took Holy Orders in 1842. He was rector at Hamden, Connecticut, from 1842 to 1873, and also agent for the Society for the Increase of the Ministry. He died at Waterbury, Connecticut, Jan. 11, 1877 (See Poets of Connecticut, 1843). In 1833 he published Visions of Death, and Other Poems; from this work his popular hymn is taken:— Take up thy cross, the Saviour said. Following Jesus. The original text of this hymn differs very materially from that which is usually found in the hymn-books. The most widely known form of the text is that in Hymns Ancient & Modern, where it appeared in 1861. It was copied by the Compilers from another collection, but by whom the alterations were made is unknown. The nearest approach to the original is in Horder's Congregational Hymn Book, 1884. Original text in Biggs's English Hymnology, 1873, p. 24. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)