A Pilgrim of the Day

Over the pathless desert way

Author: Julia H. Johnston
Tune: STANLEY (Abt)
Published in 1 hymnal

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 >

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First Line:	Over the pathless desert way
Title:	A Pilgrim of the Day
Author:	Julia H. Johnston
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Lamb of God, for sinners slain
Copyright:	Public Domain