Display Title: Yield Not to Temptation First Line: Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin Tune Title: [Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin] Author: H. R. P. Meter: 11.11.11.11.7.7.7.6 Scripture: Hebrews 2:18; James 4:7 Subject: Warfare | Source: Anonymous/Unknown, The; The Standard Publishing Company, Jewels for Juniors, circa 1911 (21); Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Yield_Not_to_Temptation); Timeless Truths Publications, Sing unto the Lord (11)
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Palmer, Horatio Richmond, MUS. DOC, was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and 5 of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881.
His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymnwriter he is known by his "Yield not to temptation," which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love, &c, 1874, and other collections. In A… Go to person page >
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