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Draw Me Nearer

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Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018)  Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: I want my heart made purer, Lord
Title: Draw Me Nearer
Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: So draw me nearer, nearer
Copyright: Public Domain

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All Hail #d81

Glad Tidings for Sunday Schools, Revival Meetings #d51

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Heart Songs #18

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Salvation Songs #155

The Praise Hymnal #450

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