CROSBY (tune)

Although the tune "CROSBY" in the 1954 Japanese Protestant hymnal 讃美歌 [Sambika] does appear to be closely related to the tune of "Jesus, dear, I come to thee", which appeared without attribution in Bradbury's 1867 Fresh Laurels, it is not identical. My questions at this point are:

*who did the adapting or arranging that resulted in the 讃美歌's CROSBY?

*was there an English text originally associated with the revised tune (either an adaptation of Crosby's "Jesus, dear" text, or an unrelated text, and if the latter, was it in some way antecedent to one of the two ostensibly original-in-Japanese texts (nos. 210 and 492) set to it in the 1954 讃美歌?

I find it almost incredible that "Jesus, dear, I come to thee" had no life beyond its first publication, but then I find it almost incredible that so little attention has been paid to Crosby's output as composer of tunes for her own texts. I see allusions to the existence of some others, even in the "People Authority" in the Hymnary.org vault, but nowhere can I find any scholarly attention to have been paid to this aspect of this unusually important hymnist.

At our projected April 25 hymn-sing at Fremont Baptist, To God Be the Glory, it is my firm intention that we sing this tune, or one of these tunes. I would prefer the 讃美歌 tune, all other things being equal, but I lack an authentic English text for it (a singable English translation of one of the Japanese ones would be fine), but I'd also just like to have a bit more information on the whole subject.

Leland aka Haruo