A Collection of Hymns #27
Display Title: At Jacob's well, a stranger sought First Line: At Jacob's well, a stranger sought Date: 1844
A Collection of Hymns #27
First Line: | At Jacob's well a stranger sought |
Title: | The Living Waters |
Author: | Joseph Grigg |
Meter: | 8.6.8.6 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
There is disagreement about the authorship of this text. The DNAH information claims the author is Helen E. Brown, however, later information points to Joseph Grigg as author.
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At Jacob's well a stranger sought. [Christ at the Well.] In Dunderdale's Psalms & Hymns, 1817, No. 260; and also in the Supplement to the Evangelistic Magazine, Dec. 1820, p. 574, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. In both instances it is Anon.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)