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I OBEY

Meter: 8.5.8.5 D Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Pluma M. Brown Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 53211 76754 32355
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I've Been Longing That The Shadows

Author: Ellen M. Dyer Meter: 8.5.8.5 D Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I’ve been longing that the shadows Lyrics: 1 I’ve been longing that the shadows All might pass away. Deeming not that I could send them Speeding on their way. Now, I bid you go, My children You whom I have made! Give your place to Heav’n-born treasures That can cast no shade. 2 What are these, my new-found blessings? Strength, and joy, and love; Peace and rest in simply doing The sweet will of God. All my longing, my repining, Lord, I yield to Thee. Lo! my sun is brightly shining, All my shadows flee! Used With Tune: I OBEY Text Sources: Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy (Jackson, Minn.: Pluma M. Brown, 1897)
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Love for every unloved creature

Author: Ellen T. Leonard Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Not a life so mean or lowly Used With Tune: I OBEY
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I Obey

Author: Isabella G. Gould Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth Refrain First Line: "Go ye," in my name declaring Used With Tune: I OBEY
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I Obey

Author: Isabella G. Gould Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8919 Meter: 8.5.8.5 D First Line: Speak! Lord, for Thy servant heareth Refrain First Line: Go ye, in My name declaring Lyrics: 1 Speak! Lord, for Thy servant heareth, Gladly I obey; Go I forth as one that serveth, Girded thus alway. Refrain: "Go ye, in My name declaring, God, the only Good"; Wondrous love, its rich unfoldings, Scarcely understood! 2 As the Master, meek and lowly, Ministering to all, With a purpose high and holy, Heeding Jesus’ call. [Refrain] 3 In the silence waiting, listening, For the "still, small voice," Seeking only for its teaching, Thus will I rejoice. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: I OBEY
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I Obey

Author: Isabella G. Gould Hymnal: Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy #298 (1897) First Line: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth Refrain First Line: "Go ye," in my name declaring Languages: English Tune Title: I OBEY
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I've Been Longing That The Shadows

Author: Ellen M. Dyer Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8920 Meter: 8.5.8.5 D First Line: I’ve been longing that the shadows Lyrics: 1 I’ve been longing that the shadows All might pass away. Deeming not that I could send them Speeding on their way. Now, I bid you go, My children You whom I have made! Give your place to Heav’n-born treasures That can cast no shade. 2 What are these, my new-found blessings? Strength, and joy, and love; Peace and rest in simply doing The sweet will of God. All my longing, my repining, Lord, I yield to Thee. Lo! my sun is brightly shining, All my shadows flee! Languages: English Tune Title: I OBEY
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Ellen T. Leonard

1845 - 1945 Author of "Love for every unloved creature" in Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy Leonard, Ellen Thurston, born in 1845, is the author of "Not a life so mean or lowly " (Love) in Horder's Worship Song, 1905. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Isabella G. Gould

Author of "I Obey" in The Cyber Hymnal
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Ellen M. Dyer

Author of "I've Been Longing That The Shadows" in The Cyber Hymnal
Ellen M. Dyer

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