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These things I command you that you love one another
Author: Susanna Harrison Appears in 23 hymnals First Line: Am I indeed born from above
These things I command you that you love one another
Am I indeed born from above
Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected, for the Use of Christians. (8th ed.) #b80 (1840) Languages: English
Am I indeed born from above
Am I indeed born from above
Hymnal: A Collection of original and select hymns and spiritual songs #LXI (1807)
Am I indeed born from above
Am I indeed born from above?
Hymnal: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected, for the Use of Christians. (5th ed.) #B80 (1838) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: These things I command you, that ye love one another Languages: English
Am I indeed born from above?
Susannah Harrison
1752 - 1784 Person Name: Susanna Harrison Author of "Am I indeed born from above" Harrison, Susanna, invalided from her work as a domestic servant at the age of 20, published Songs in the Night, 1780. This included 133 hymns, and passed through ten editions. She is known by "Begone, my worldly cares, away," and "O happy souls that love the Lord." Born in 1752 and died Aug. 3, 1784.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Harrison, Susanna. (1752--August 3, 1784, Ipswich, England). The preface to the first edition of her collected hymns, Songs in the night, 1780, states that she was "a very obscure young woman, and quite destitute of the advantages of education, as well as under great bodily affliction. Her father dying when she was young, and leaving a large family unprovided for, she went out to service at sixteen years of age."
In August 1722, she became ill, probably with tuberculosis, and returned to her mother's home. She taught herself to write and in her remaining years she wrote 142 hymns which, with a few meditations, were published as Songs in the night by an anonymous editor, perhaps her rector. So sincere yet vivid is the expression of her faith as she faced certain death that by 1847 there had been eleven editions printed in England and seven additional ones in America.
Individual hymns remained popular in America during much of the nineteenth century due to the constant preoccupation with death in both urban and frontier life, reflected in the large sections of funeral hymns in most hymnals.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
Susannah Harrison
