Back of the Loaf

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Back of the loaf the snowy flour

Author: Maltbie D. Babcock
Tune: [Back of the loaf is the snowy flour] (56717)
Published in 7 hymnals

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Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,
Back of the flour the mill;
Back of the mill the wheat, the show'r,
The sun, and our Father's will.

Source: Let Youth Praise Him: a hymnal for Christian primary schools, Sunday schools and Christian homes #15

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Author: Maltbie D. Babcock

Maltbie D. Babcock (b. Syracuse, NY, 1858; d. Naples, Italy, 1901) graduated from Syracuse University, New York, and Auburn Theological Seminary (now associated with Union Theological Seminary in New York) and became a Presbyterian minister. He served the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. In Baltimore he was especially popular with students from Johns Hopkins University, but he ministered to people from all walks of life. Babcock wrote hymn texts and devotional, poems, some of which were published in The School Hymnal (1899). Bert Polman… Go to person page >

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