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Never Look Back

O never look back with your hand on the plow

Author: Sidney Dyer
Tune: [O never look back with your hand on the plow]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Sidney Dyer

Dyer, Sidney, who served in the U. S. Army from 1831 to c. 1840, is a native of White Creek, Washington County, New York, where he was born in 1814. On leaving the army he was ordained a Baptist Minister in 1842, and acted first as a Missionary to the Choctaws, then as Pastor in Indianapolis, Indiana (1852), and as Secretary to the Baptist Publication Society, Phila. (1859). He has published sundry works, and in the Southwestern Psalmist, 1851, 16 of his hymns are found. The following are later and undated:— 1. Go, preach the blest salvation. Missions. In the Baptist Praise Book, 1871, and The Baptist Hymn & Tune Book, 1871. 2. Great Framer [Maker] of unnumbered worlds. National Humiliation. In the Boston Unitarian Hymn [an… Go to person page >

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First Line: O never look back with your hand on the plow
Title: Never Look Back
Author: Sidney Dyer
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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Instances

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Bright Gems #d116

Bright Gems #d116
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Royal Hymnal #192

Royal Hymnal #192
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