The scarlet thread

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With the scarlet thread of redemption

Author: Aimee Semple McPherson
Tune: [With the scarlet thread of Redemption]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Aimee Semple McPherson

McPherson, Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy Semple. (Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, October 9, 1890--September 26, 1944, Oakland, California). Foursquare. With no formal education beyond high school this remarkable and controversial woman founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel denomination. Pentacostalist missionary to China, 1917; itinerant Pentacostalist preacher in U.S. 1918-1923; pastor of Angelus Temple (Foursquare), Los Angeles, Calif. 1923-1944. Author of books on the Foursquare Church and composer of five oratorios. Evangelistic zeal is evident in her many published hymns. Full length biographical studies: Thomas, Lately. (1970). Storming heaven : the lives and turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple McPherson. New Yo… Go to person page >

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First Line:	With the scarlet thread of redemption
Title:	The scarlet thread
Author:	Aimee Semple McPherson
Refrain First Line:	For there's a scarlet thread awinding
Copyright:	Copyright, 1935, by Echo Park Evangelistic Association.