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We All Might Do Good

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We all might do good, where we often do ill

Author: G. Linnaeus Banks
Tune: [We all might do good where we often do ill]
Published in 14 hymnals

Author: G. Linnaeus Banks

Banks, George Linnaeus, newspaper editor and verse writer, was born at Birmingham, March 2, 1821, and died in London, May 3, 1881. His hymn, “I live far those who love me” [Work for God], in the Tonic Solfa Reporter, June, 1861, and in Daisies in the Grass, 1865 (the joint work of himself and his wife, Isabella, née Varley), p. 21, entitled "What I live for," and signed G. L. B. It is in various recent hymnals, sometimes as in Worship Song, 1905, beginning "I'd live." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	We all might do good, where we often do ill
Title:	We All Might Do Good
Author:	G. Linnaeus Banks
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Tune

[We all might do good where we often do ill]

[We all might do good]

EDINBURGH (White)

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Select Songs No. 2: for the singing service in the prayer meeting; Sunday school; Christian Endeavor meetings (1893), p.100

Instances

Instances (1 - 14 of 14)

Crown of Glory #d114

Every Sabbath #27

Heart Songs #151

Pure Diamonds #d111

Select Songs No. 2 #133

Songs of Glory #35

Songs of Gratitude #69

Songs of Gratitude #69

The Hosanna #154

The Praise Hymnal #530

The Robin #d32

The Sunday School's Delight #d69

The Tree of Life #33

The Welcome #46

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