My Jesus Died for Me

My Jesus died for me, Such love can I forget

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Tune: [My Jesus died for me]
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin

Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book,… Go to person page >

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First Line: My Jesus died for me, Such love can I forget
Title: My Jesus Died for Me
Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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Apostolic Hymns and Songs #22

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Heavenly Carols #23

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Francis Murphy's Gospel Temperance Hymnal #76

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