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Person Name: CSPS Harmonizer of "I WANT TO BE A CHRISTIAN" in Christian Science Hymnal

W. Lawrence Curry

1906 - 1966 Harmonizer of "[Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart, in my heart]" in Hymns for Primary Worship

Phil. V. S. Lindsley

Arranger of "[Lord, I want to be a Christian in a my heart, in a my heart]" in National Jubilee Melodies

1886 - 1946 Arranger of "[Lord, I want to be a Christian]" in World Wide Revival Songs No. 2 Born: March 10, 1886, New Berne, North Carolina. Died: February 6, 1946, Dallas, Texas. Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas. Fisher attended Fort Worth University and Polytechnic College, Fort Worth, Texas; Vanderbilt University; Southern Methodist University; and earned his Doctor of Divinity degree at Asbury College, Kentucky. He moved to Fort Worth in 1908, and for a decade served as a general evangelist for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In World War I, he was a military chaplain. After the war, he worked in the East Oklahoma Conference and (beginning in 1944), the North Texas Conference. His works include: Best Revival Songs (Nashville, Tennessee: The Cokesbury Press, 1924) (music editor) © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.come/tch)

Edward C. Deas

? - 1944 Arranger of "[Lord, I want to be a Christian]" in Lift Every Voice and Sing II Edward C. Deas (unknown – 1944) was a hymnist, arranger of spirituals, music publisher, and music authority for the AME Church. Deas’s hymns, such as “Big Business in Glory” (1921) and “Shine for Jesus” (1925), reflect the simplicity and usage of common language characteristic of the 19th-century revival hymn. Deas also wrote the book Songs and Spirituals of Negro Composition (1928). --Encyclopedia of African American Music, Volume 3, edited by Emmett George Price