Wer will freudig folgen?

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"Wer will freudig folgen?" ruft der Meister heut

Translator: William J. Bestvater; Author: Julia H. Johnston
Tune: ["Who is there among you", 'tis the Master's voice]
Published in 1 hymnal

Translator: William J. Bestvater

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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:	"Wer will freudig folgen?" ruft der Meister heut
Title:	Wer will freudig folgen?
English Title:	Who is there among you, 'tis the Master's voice
Translator:	William J. Bestvater
Author:	Julia H. Johnston
Language:	German
Refrain First Line:	Wer will freudig folgen, wer tritt in die Reih'n
Copyright:	Public Domain