O bleib' bei mir!

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O bleib' bei mir! Der Heiland fleht

Author: Julia H. Johnston; Translator: Carl Roehl
Tune: [Abide in Me! 'tis Jesus' voice]
Published in 2 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 >

Translator: Carl Roehl

(no biographical information available about Carl Roehl.) Go to person page >

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First Line:	O bleib' bei mir! Der Heiland fleht
Title:	O bleib' bei mir!
English Title:	Abide in Me
Author:	Julia H. Johnston
Translator:	Carl Roehl
Language:	German
Refrain First Line:	O bleib' bei mir, ich bin dein Hort
Publication Date:	1914
Copyright:	Public Domain