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Lord, we are young, thy help we need

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Lord, we are young, thy help we need

Author: Joseph Rusling
Published in 11 hymnals

Author: Joseph Rusling

Rusling, J., p. 931, i. 255, b. 1788, d. 1839. From this American writer there is a mutilated fragment in Stryker's College Hymnal, 1904: "The morn, O Christian, breaketh o'er thee" (Death and Heaven anticipated). In H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, this hymn begins “Christian, the morn breaks sweetly o'er thee." It is usually dated 1832. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Lord, we are young, thy help we need
Author:	Joseph Rusling
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Zion's Refreshing Showers : a new revival hymn and tune book, containing nearly 300 hymns and tunes principally used by Whitfield, Wesley, Knapp, Nettleton, Finney, Earl, and other evangelists... (1867), p.102

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Choral Harp for Sunday Schools #d94

Hymns for Sunday Schools, Youth and Children #272

Hymns for Sunday Schools, Youth, and Children #22

Hymns for Sunday Schools, Youth, and Children #272

Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #S22

Sunday School Hymn Book #d255

The Centenary Singer #361

The Sabbath School #145

The School Psalter #d165

Waters' Choral Harp #103a

Zion's Refreshing Showers #103b

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