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While sorrows encompass me round

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While sorrows encompass me round

Author: Caleb Jarvis Taylor
Tune: KERR (McWhorter)
Published in 25 hymnals

Author: Caleb Jarvis Taylor

Caleb Jarvis Taylor was a Methodist minister, songwriter, author, and schoolteacher in Kentucky. Born Roman Catholic he converted before the age of 20. He organized early Methodist congregations in northeast Kentucky and supplied camp meeting songs during the Great Revival. He was born June 20, 1763, in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, and died June 6, 1816 in Maysville, Kentucky. Chris Hoh, from "The Early Camp Meeting Song Writers," Methodist Quarterly Review, 1859, Vol. XLI, Fourth Series, XI, April, p 401-413; The History of Methodism in Kentucky by a. H. Redford, p 128-134; Mt. Gilead Methodist Meeting House," Hopewell Museum website (www.hopewellmuseum.org) Go to person page >

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	While sorrows encompass me round
Author:	Caleb Jarvis Taylor
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Tune

KERR (McWhorter)

All tunes published with 'While sorrows encompass me round'^ top

Timeline

Page Scans

Union Harp and History of Songs: with sketch of the authors of tunes and hymns (1909), p.168

Instances in all hymnals

Instances (1 - 25 of 25)

A General Selection of the Newest and Most Admired Hymns and Spiritual Songs Now in Use #d130

A General Selection of the Newest and Most Admired Hymns and Spiritual Songs Now in Use. 2nd ed. #d119

A Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs from the Best Authors #d226

A Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Designed for the Use of the Pious #d149

Baptist Hymn Book #aB107

Hymn and Tune Book for Use in Old School or Primitive Baptist Churches #536

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Selected and Original. 7th ed. #d497

Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture with Others Usually Sung at Camp-Meetings #d15

Original and Select Hymns, and Sacred Pindoric Odes., few of which have ever been published (1st. ed.) #62

Pilgrim Songster #d115

Pilgrim's Songster #d101

The Baptist Hymn Book #1251

The Baptist Hymn Book #B107

The Christian Hymn-Book (Corr. and Enl., 3rd. ed.) #222

The Christian Hymn-Book, compiled and published at the request of the Miami Christian Conference #262

The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems #CDLXXIII

The Dover Selection of Spiritual Songs #d268

The Dover Selection of Spiritual Songs, with an Appendix of Choice Hymns #d260

The Primitive Hymns #d659

The Sacred Songster. 5th ed. #d195

The Virginia Selection of Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #382

The Western Harp #d254

Union Harp and History of Songs #168b

Virginia Selection of Psalms #d495

Zion's Hill #d78

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