Composer: Frank S. Hunnewell
Hunnewell, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in White Plains, New York, was living in 1918, when his 23-year old son Donald was killed in World War I.
Sources
New York Times, November 24, 1918, p. 23
Music--
OAKLAND
PARTING HYMN
SALVATOR
WOODBRIDGE
--www.hymntime.com/tch
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Take Me, O My Father, Take MeTake me, O my Father, take me;
Take me, save me, through Thy Son;
That which Thou wouldst have me, make me,
Let Thy will in me be done.
Long from Thee my footsteps straying,
Thorny proved the way I trod;
Weary come I now, and praying,
Take me to Thy love, my God.
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