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My Father, when I come to Thee

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My Father, when I come to Thee

Author: Oliver Hart
Tune: HEBRON (Mason)
Published in 38 hymnals

Author: Oliver Hart

Hart, Oliver, was born at Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1723; entered the Baptist ministry in 1749; and died at Hopewell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Dec. 31, 1795. He was the author of "My Father, when I come to Thee" (Prayer), which is found in several Sunday school hymn-books. It was in the Sunday School Union Hymn Book [1835]; the Silver Street Sunday Scholar's Companion, 51st ed., 1840; and later collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	My Father, when I come to Thee
Author:	Oliver Hart
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Tune

HEBRON (Mason)

All tunes published with 'My Father, when I come to Thee'^ top

Timeline

Page Scans

The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church (1908), p.265

Instances

Instances (1 - 38 of 38)

A Manual of Devotion and Hymns for the House of Refuge, City of New York #58

A Selection of Hymns for the Use of Church of England Sunday Schools, Bible Classes ... New ed. #d193

A Selection of Hymns #315

American Sunday School Hymn Book. 2nd ed. #a117

American Sunday School Hymn Book. New ed. #aa117

American Sunday School Psalmody; or, hymns and music, for the use of Sunday-schools and teacher's meetings; with a manual of instruction #177

Canadian Sabbath-School Hymn Book #d168

Familiar Hymns, Alphabetically Arranged. #d163

Hymns and Offices of Worship #177

Hymns, Selected and Arranged for the Sunday School of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew, Philadelphia #d116

Hymns, Selected and Original, for Sunday Schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church #d276

Liturgy and Hymns for Sunday Schools #d102

New Standard Singer #d150

New Standard Singer, Pt. 1-7 #d152

New Union Hymns #38

Offices of Worship and Hymns #177

Offices of Worship and Hymns #379

One Hundred Progressive Hymns #62

Portsmouth Sunday School Hymn Book #d101

Sunday School Hymn Book #d99

Sunday-School Hymns #34

The American Baptist Sabbath-School Hymn-Book #64

The American Sunday-School Hymn-Book #117

The Baptist Sabbath School Hymn Book #d260

The Clifton Chapel Collection of "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs" #559

The Confederate Sunday School Hymn Book #d79

The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church #379

The New England Sunday School Hymn Book #d88

The Sabbath Chimes #d173

The Sabbath School Choir #d39

The Sabbath School Melodist #25

The Sabbath School Singing Book #d42

The Sunday School Singing Book #9

The Sweet Singer #112

Union Hymns. Rev. #d249

Union Hymns. Rev. #d253

Worship in the School Room #d111

Worship in the School Room #237

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