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Cáliz de Bendiciones #193
Display Title: Cuán tiernamente Jesús hoy nos llama First Line: Cuán tiernamente Jesús hoy nos llama Tune Title: THOMPSON Author: Vicente Mendoza; Will L. Thompson Date: 1996
Cáliz de Bendiciones #193
Cuán tiernamente Jesús hoy nos llama
Cuán tiernamente Jesús hoy nos llama
Translator: Vincente Mendoza; Author: Will L. Thompson (1880)Tune: [Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling]
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Translator: Vincente Mendoza
Born: December 24, 1875, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Died: 1955, Mexico City, Mexico.
Buried: Mexico City, Mexico.
Mendoza studied initially under Don Aurelio Ortega. At age of 11 he went to work in a Protestant print shop in Mexico City and helped produce El Evangelista Mexicano (The Mexican Evangelist) for the Methodist Church of the South; he rose to become its director for 17 years. Looking to improve himself, Mendoza entered a night school for workers, but later feeling the call to preach the Gospel, he entered the Presbyterian Seminary in Mexico City. When the seminary closed temporarily… Go to person page >Author: Will L. Thompson
Will Lamartine Thompson (1847-1909)
Born: November 7, 1847, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Died: September 20, 1909, New York, New York.
Buried: Riverview Cemetery, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Rebuffed in an early attempt to sell his songs to a commercial publisher, Thompson started his own publishing company. He later expanded, opening a store to sell pianos, organs and sheet music. Both a lyricist and composer, he ensured he would always remember words or melodies that came to him at odd times:
"No matter where I am, at home or hotel, at the store or traveling, if an idea or theme comes to me that I deem worthy of a song, I jot it down in verse. In this… Go to person page >Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
