On Calvary

I long had wandered from my Lord who died

Author: Julia H. Johnston
Tune: [I long had wandered from my Lord]
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. 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:	I long had wandered from my Lord who died
Title:	On Calvary
Author:	Julia H. Johnston
Refrain First Line:	From above he came and sought me

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Tune

[I long had wandered from my Lord]

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Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined (1907), p.362

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Instances (1 - 3 of 3)	Title	First Line	Tune	Author	Date	Subject
Pentecostal Hymns No. 4, a winnowed collection for young people's societies, church prayer meetings, evangelistic services and Sunday schools #84	On Calvary	I long had wandered from my Lord	[I long had wandered from my Lord]	Julia H. Johnston	1907	Atonement, Salvation \|
Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined #427	On Calvary	I long had wandered from my Lord	[I long had wandered from my Lord]	Julia H. Johnston	1907	Atonement, Salvation \|
The New and Living Way, Burning Bush Songs No. 5 #d22	On Calvary	I long had wandered from my Lord who died		Charles H. Gabriel; Julia H. Johnston	1913