Pilot Hymns #60
Display Title: The Bible First Line: It's the only message God has given Tune Title: [It's the only message God has given] Author: B. B. McK. Date: 1934
Pilot Hymns #60

Pseudonyms--
Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin)
Otto Nellen
Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh)
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Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942.
McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Wor… Go to person page >| First Line: | It's the only message God has given |
| Title: | The Bible |
| Author: | Baylus Benjamin McKinney (1933) |
| Language: | English |
| Refrain First Line: | Dear old Bible |
| Publication Date: | 1933 |
| Copyright: | Copyright, 1933 by Robert H. Coleman |