The Feet of Jesus

Sitting at the feet of Jesus, there is rest

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Tune: [Sitting at the feet of Jesus] (Lorenz)
Published in 1 hymnal

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: Sitting at the feet of Jesus, there is rest
Title: The Feet of Jesus
Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Refuge when the storms of life assail me
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Master's Praise #98

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