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M. B. C. Slade

M. B. C. Slade
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Short Name: M. B. C. Slade
Full Name: Slade, M. B. C. (Mary Bridges Canedy), 1826-1882
Birth Year: 1826
Death Year: 1882

Mary Bridges Canady Slade USA 1826-1882. Born in Fall River, MA, she was well-educated and became a minister's wife, teacher, and poet. She was assistant editor of The New England Journal of Education. She also authored hymns, Sunday school materials and books on education, primarily used for training teachers. She authored a children's magazine, “Wide-awake”. She and her husband were active in the underground railroad (helping slaves achieve their freedom). She spent her whole life living in the same town.

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Texts by M. B. C. Slade (159)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A quem sua vida nos fez doaçãoM. B. C. Slade (Author)Portuguese1
A voice that I hear, across the seaM. B. C. Slade (Author)English3
Above the bruised faceM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Alguien está a mi puertaMary B. C. Slade (Author)Spanish3
All around were field and forestM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
All over the sacred pages, the lives, almost divineM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
Along the silent pathM. B. C. S. (Author)English6
Are you staying, safely stayingMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English25
As forth from the city, went Jesus one dayM. B. C. Slade (Author)English4
At dewy dawn, in misty mornMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
Be with us, O Father dearMary Slade (Author)English1
Beautiful lake of GalileeM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Beautiful river, flowing foreverM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Behold the glorious banner of salvationMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English8
Behold the little flock, precious lambs of Jesus!Mrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English5
Beyond this land of parting, losing and leavingMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English55
Birds are rejoicingM. B. C. Slade (Author)2
Charlie wants a piece of breadMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)2
Cheerful raise a joyful tuneMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English3
Children, children why do you singM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Come dearest Lord, and bless this daySlade (Author)English2
Come down beside the waters, so calm, and sweet and stillMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English2
Come happy children, fold each little handM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
Come hither, little childrenMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
Come, merry lad, I am waiting for youM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Come, O come, and gaily goM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
De obscuras regionesM. B. C. Slade (Author)Spanish1
Dize-nos, não tens ouvido contarM. B. C. Slade (Author)Portuguese1
Don't you see the blue cloudsMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)2
Down by the dancing billowsM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Down the bay, far awayM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Draw nigh to us, our FatherMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English3
Drummer boy, drummer boy, where are you speedingMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)3
Dulcemente Jesús nos llamaMary Bridges Canedy Slade, 1826-1882 (Author)Spanish1
Flag of freemen gone before usM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
For me, my Father callsMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English2
Four little feet on the entryMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
From all the dark placesM. B. C. Slade (Author)English127
From the Bethlehem manger homeMrs. M. B. Slade (Author)English5
From western wilds and watersMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
Great Naaman the SyrianM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Hark, the gentle voice of Jesus fallethMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English78
Harvest fields with golden glow [gold aglow]Mary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English3
Hast erkoren, du erkoren Unsers Jesu treue Hirtenhut?M. B. C. Slade (Author)German3
Hear how a sower onceMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English2
Hear, now, the blessed Jesus tenderly sayM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Her sad vigil keeping, Mary sat weepingMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English4
Holy Father, grant thy blessing To us children of Thy careMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English2
How happy were theyM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
How strange it seems that I couldM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
I know not what the morrow'll bringM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
I love my Father, for, on highMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
I love to see in pictured restMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)2
I wandered just at evenMary Bridges Canedy Slade (Author)4
If I, like Galilee fishersMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English12
If the boys and girls will listenM. B. C. Slade (Author)2
I'm glad the holy angelsM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Im heil'gen BibelworteM. B. C. Slade (Author)German0
I'm looking for the kingdomMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
In Bethlehem's manger so lowM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
In the desert days of oldMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English8
In the springtime, little sisterM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
In the vineyard of the Master There was growing once a treeMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English9
Into the tent where a gypsy boy layMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English110
I've strayed till late, the night is fallingMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English6
Jesus in the temple, with the doctors wiseMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English3
Let us raise a song for the pathway longM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Lift up, lift up each cheerful voiceM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
Lightly, gently, gaily glideMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
Liken the kingdom to the springingMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English6
Listen, O listen, our father all holyMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English4
Long ago when little childrenMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English5
Look abroad over the fields of the nationMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English4
Lord, must I go, the desert ways along?Mrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
Marching on, marching on, come the glad children hereM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
Ninety nine in the safe fold abidingM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
No sounding battle-cry we ringMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
Not on the mount nor [not] besideMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)2
Now, all our work is doneMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
O Christmas child, so wise and dear!M. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
O say who is heM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
O'er fragrant summer fieldsM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Over the desert and dreary wayMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English3
Over the hills and adown the snowy dellsMary Bridges Canedy Slade (Author)English5
Over the waters, dark and foamingMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English4
O I love to think how JesusMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English8
O ye who have lost your possessions of peaceMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English2
Once a feast was made and the board was laidM. B. C. Slade (Author)English3
Once, forth to meet the bridegroomMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English4
Once over Judea's hills by nightMary Bridges Canedy Slade (Author)English3
One bright and pleasant summer dayM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
One day I saw a little childM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
One more year has goneMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English4
One! two! three! four! five! six! seven!M. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
Otro año más queda ya atrásM. B. C. Slade (Author)Spanish1
Our Lord hath sent a ShepherdM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Peaceful the morning, quiet the dayMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English4
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Happy children now in the temple singMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English8
¿Quién es el que me llama? ¿Quién se acera hoy?Mary B. C. Slade (Author)Spanish1
Raise your little hands and point them to the northM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
Rocked upon the raging billowMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English5
Say, have you read in the story oldenM. B. C. Slade (Author)English5
Say, who hath sorrow, contentions and woe?Mrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English5
School is done, school is doneM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
See, O see, as here we standM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
See the merry farmer boyM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Seven fishers went out by night at seaMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)3
Sing, brother, sing, for the nightM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Sowing, sowing, sowing the precious seedM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
Springtime brings the robinM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Sweet is the promise faith sees enrolledMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)2
Sweetly, Lord, have we heard Thee callingMary B. C. Slade (Author)English245
Tell it again, tell it again, Salvation's story repeat over and over (Chorus)Mary B. C. Slade (Author)English0
Thank God for our countryMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
The children are waitingMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
The Lord, our God, hath made the pleasant wildwood shadeM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
The Master stood at the vineyard gateM. B. C. Slade (Author)English5
The ninety and nine, His dear ones that stayMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English2
The sun is rising over the oceanM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
The voice of the Lord sweetly sayeth to meMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English2
The year is hastingMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
There's a beautiful place for you and for meMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English12
There's a city of GodMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
There's a fountain free, that avails for meMrs. M.B.C. Slade (Author)English1
There's a fountain free, 'tis for you and meMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English71
There's a wail from the islands of the seaMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English15
This day no thorn crowned cross of painMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English3
This is the way the mist goes upM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
This is the way the snow comes downMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English7
Thou Bethsaida, the lovely, down beside the seaMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
Thou, O Lord, all our sin and sorrow knowingM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Thou who in Thy church of oldMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English3
'Tis the story ever newMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
To the heavenly JerusalemMrs. M. B. C. L. Slade (Author)English9
Tumesikia ukisemaM. B. C. Slade (Author)Swahili0
Una fuente hay que la vida daMary Slade (Author)Spanish2
Up to the bountiful Giver of lifeMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English109
Very early in the morn, Came to marys, weepingMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)1
We are little soldier menMary Slade (Author)English1
We are marching to Canaan, through the desert vastMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English5
We love the sunny days of SpringMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)3
We show you now, with lips and handsM. B. C. Slade (Author)English1
We sing the year's long [glad] story of Sabbath service doneM. B. C. Slade (Author)English2
We will go down among the meadowsMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
What is pure and fair and whiteM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
What saith Jehovah, the holy oneM. B. C. Slade (Author)3
What story so sweet is the songM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
When flowery summer is at handM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
When Jesus Christ was on earthMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
When our beloved Jesus rodeMary B. C. Slade (Author)1
When the blessed Savior walked on earth belowMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English1
When the cry shall be made at the midnightMiss Mariana B. Slade (Author)English8
When the earth awakes with singingMary Slade (Author)English1
Where almond groves are vineyardsMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
Where Potomac's streamMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)1
Where shall the good children go when they dieM. B. C. Slade (Author)1
Where the jasper walls are beaming, Where the pearly portals are glowingMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English25
Who at my door is standingMary B. C. L. Slade (Author)English145
With His dear and loving careMrs. M. B. C. Slade (Author)English10
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