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[I think, when I read that sweet story of old] (Danks)

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. P. Danks Incipit: 51111 71232 12333

I Think When I Read

Author: Jemima Luke Appears in 863 hymnals First Line: I think, when I read that sweet story of old Used With Tune: [I think, when I read that sweet story of old]

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I Think When I Read

Author: Jemima Luke Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.2 #242 (1889) First Line: I think, when I read that sweet story of old Tune Title: [I think, when I read that sweet story of old]

Author: Jemima Luke Hymnal: Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #439 (1890) First Line: I think when I read the sweet story of old Languages: English Tune Title: [I think when I read the sweet story of old]

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H. P. Danks

1834 - 1903 Composer of "[I think, when I read that sweet story of old]" in Triumphant Songs No.2

Jemima Luke

1813 - 1906 Author of "I Think When I Read" in Triumphant Songs No.2 Luke, Jemima Thompson, the wife of Rev. Samuel Luke, an Independent minister of England, was the daughter of Thomas 422 Thompson, a philanthropist, and was born at Colebrook Terrace, Islington, August 19, 1813. When only thirteen years of age she began writing for the Juvenile Magazine. She published a volume titled The Female Jesuit in 1851 and A Memoir of Eliza Ann Harris, of Clifton, in 1859, but her name is known to the Christian world almost wholly through the one hymn found in this volume. Mrs. Luke died February 2, 1906. I think when I read that sweet 682 Hymn Writers of the Church, 1915, Charles Nutter =============== Luke, Jemima, née Thompson, daughter of Thomas Thompson, sometime of Bath, was born at Colebrooke Terrace, Islington, Aug. 19, 1813, and was married to the late Samuel Luke, a Congregational Minister, in 1843. She was an anonymous contributor to The Juvenile Magazine at the age of 13, and subsequently pub. several works, including The Female Jesuit, 1851; A Memoir of Eliza Ann Harris, of Clifton, 1859, &c. Mrs. Luke is known to hymnody through her hymn:— I think when I read that sweet story of old. [The Love of Jesus.] It is recorded that this hymn was composed in a stage coach in 1841, and was designed for use in the village school, near her father's seat, Poundsford Park. It was published anonymously in the Leeds Hymn Book, 1853, No. 874, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines, and has since come into use through children's hymn-books in most English-speaking countries. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)