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[Why will ye die, when promised life eternal]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Gilmour Incipit: 33212 34566 56465 Used With Text: Why Will Ye Die?

Why Will Ye Die?

Author: F. G. Burroughs Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Why will ye die, when promised life eternal Used With Tune: [Why will ye die, when promised life eternal]

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Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: Radiant Songs #40 (1891) First Line: Why will ye die, when promised life eternal Lyrics: 1 Why will ye die, when promised life eternal, - When from thy guilt Christ offers thee release? Why will ye choose the ways of sin and folly, When wisdom's paths are pleasantness and peace? Chorus: Why will ye die? Why will ye die? Jesus is asking, - lost one, reply; Just as I am, thou dying Lamb, Take me, and save me, just as I am. 2 Why will ye die, when bread is given freely, - When without price ye all may buy and eat? Why will ye faint beside the flowing fountain, - Why taste his wrath, when pardon is so sweet? [Chorus] 3 Why will ye die, when for thy full redemption Jesus, thy Saviour, died upon the cross? Why will ye turn from gifts of endless value, Trying to grasp earth's emptiness and dross? [Chorus] 4 Why will ye die beneath your heavy burdens, When Jesus calls, "Come unto me and rest?" Light is the burden of his loving kindness; Easy the yoke of service he hath blest! [Chorus] Scripture: Ezekiel 33:11 Languages: English Tune Title: [Why will ye die, when promised life eternal]

Why Will Ye Die?

Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: The Emory Hymnal No. 2 #40 (1891) First Line: Why will ye die, when promised life eternal Languages: English Tune Title: [Why will ye die, when promised life eternal]

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H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Composer of "[Why will ye die, when promised life eternal]" in The Emory Hymnal No. 2 Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry

Ophelia G. Adams

1856 - 1949 Person Name: F. G. Burroughs Author of "Why Will Ye Die?" in The Emory Hymnal No. 2 Ophelia G. Adams was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) She was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of F. G. Burroughs and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs. Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921