[Arise ye Christian youth, arise!]

Composer: I. E. Diekenga

Born: Cir­ca 1846, Ger­ma­ny. Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 2, 1890, St. Lou­is, Mis­sou­ri. Diekenga’s fam­i­ly em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1847. He mar­ried Nellie H. de Jong, poss­i­bly in St. Lou­is. His works in­clude: Between Times; Or, Tales, Sketch­es, and Po­ems Uncle Dan Pol­der­tot, 1882 --www.hymntime.com/tch/  Go to person page >