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[Long I sought the blessed Savior]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Tenney Incipit: 33432 11655 13532
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I Have Left the Wilderness

Author: Ellen C. Webster Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Long I sought the blessed Saviour Used With Tune: [Long I sought the blessed Saviour]
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I Have Left the Wilderness

Author: Ellen C. Webster Hymnal: The Jewelled Crown #102 (1891) First Line: Long I sought the blessed Saviour Topics: Devotional; Receiving the Savior Languages: English Tune Title: [Long I sought the blessed Saviour]
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I Have Left the Wilderness

Author: Ellen C. Webster Hymnal: Gleanings of Sacred Song #64 (1892) First Line: Long I sought the blessed Saviour Languages: English Tune Title: [Long I sought the blessed Saviour]
I Have Left the Wilderness

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J. H. Tenney

1840 - 1918 Composer of "[Long I sought the blessed Saviour]" in Gleanings of Sacred Song John Harrison Tenney, 1840-1918 Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1840, Row­ley, Mass­a­chu­setts. Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of "Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too," Ten­ney was named af­ter Amer­i­can pre­si­dent Will­iam Hen­ry Har­ri­son. A dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mass­a­chu­setts, he ed­it­ed or was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of over 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more. His works in­clude: Amer­i­can Male Choir Temperance Jew­els, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1879) Bells of Vic­to­ry, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Oliv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1888) Gems of Gos­pel Song Golden Sun­beams Sharon’s Dewy Rose Songs of Faith Shining Light Songs of Joy Sparkling and Bright Spiritual Songs, Nos. 1 and 2 Sweet Fields of Eden The Bea­con Light The Sing­ing School Ban­ner The An­them Of­fer­ing The Amer­i­can An­them Book The Crown of Praise Sources-- Hall, pp. 219-22 Music-- Asilomar Bogotá Beyond the Swell­ing Flood Cancún Come to Je­sus Ever Will I Pray Hallowed Hour of Pray­er Jesus Is Pass­ing This Way Jubilate! My An­chor Is Hold­ing Nothing Be­tween Onward Christ­ian Sol­diers Sabbath Bell San Fran­cis­co We’ll Ne­ver Say Good­bye Where Will You Spend Eter­ni­ty? --www.hymntime.com/tch
J. H. Tenney

Ellen C. Webster

Author of "I Have Left the Wilderness" in Gleanings of Sacred Song
Ellen C. Webster
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