Thoburn, Dr. C. Stanley. Born in India of a missionary family, he was himself a missionary, serving in Leonard Theological College, North India Theological College, and revising the Hindi language Old and New Testaments. Later lived in Melrose, Massachusetts.
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O JESU first appeared in an organ collection, Sammlung alter und neuer Melodien evangelischen Lieder (1747), compiled by Johann B. Reimann for use with texts found in the Hirschberger evangelischen Gesangbuch (1741). Often attributed to Reimann, the tune was set to "O Jesu, warum legst du mir so vie…