If Christ Had Not Come!

How dark and how hopeless this world would have been

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm
Tune: [How dark and how hopeless this world would have been]
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm

Thomas O. Chisholm was born in Franklin, Kentucky in 1866. His boyhood was spent on a farm and in teaching district schools. He spent five years as editor of the local paper at Franklin. He was converted to Christianity at the age of 26 and soon after was business manager and office editor of the "Pentecostal Herald" of Louisville, Ky. In 1903 he entered the ministry of the M. E. Church South. His aim in writing was to incorporate as much as Scripture as possible and to avoid flippant or sentimental themes. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)… Go to person page >

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First Line: How dark and how hopeless this world would have been
Title: If Christ Had Not Come!
Author: Thomas O. Chisholm
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Ah! what would we do in our sin and our woe
Publication Date: 1917
Copyright: Public Domain

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