On Calvary

I long had wandered from my Lord who died

Author: Julia H. Johnston
Tune: [I long had wandered from my Lord]
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: I long had wandered from my Lord who died
Title: On Calvary
Author: Julia H. Johnston
Refrain First Line: From above he came and sought me
Copyright: Public Domain

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Pentecostal Hymns No. 4 #84

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Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined #427

The New and Living Way, Burning Bush Songs No. 5 #d22

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