Sorrows of Mary

Stood the mother weeping, sighing

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin

Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book,… Go to person page >

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First Line: Stood the mother weeping, sighing
Title: Sorrows of Mary
Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Refrain First Line: Holy mother, may I borrow
Copyright: Public Domain

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May Blossoms, a collection of hymns to the Blessed Virgin #24

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Sunday School Hymn Book #129

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