Das köstliche Blut

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Das Kreuz, das Kreuz, das blut'ge Kreuz

Author: John H. Stockton
Tune: [The Cross! the Cross! that blood-stained Cross] (Stockton)
Published in 6 hymnals

Author: John H. Stockton

Stockton, John Hart, a Methodist minister, was born in 1813, and died in 1877. He was a member of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the successive pastoral charges that he filled as a member of that Conference are found in the Conference Journal. He was not only a preacher, but a musician and composer of tunes, as well as hymn writer. He published two gospel song books: Salvation Melodies, 1874, and Precious Songs, 1875. Hymn Writers of the Church by Charles Nutter, 1911… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Das Kreuz, das Kreuz, das blut'ge Kreuz
Title:	Das köstliche Blut
English Title:	The cross, the cross, the bloodstained cross
Author:	John H. Stockton
Language:	German
Refrain First Line:	O das Blut, das köstliche Blut
Copyright:	Public Domain