William M. Runyan

William M. Runyan
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Short Name: William M. Runyan
Full Name: Runyan, William M. (William Marion), 1870-1957
Birth Year: 1870
Death Year: 1957

Showing early musical promise, William Marion Runyan (b. Marion, NY, 1870; d. Pittsburg, KS, 1957) was a substitute church organist by the age of twelve. He became a Methodist minister in 1891 and served several churches in Kansas but turned to evangelism in 1903; he worked for the Central Methodist Conference for the next twenty years. Following that service, Runyan became pastor at the Federated Church at John Brown University, Sulphur Springs, Arkansas. Editor of Christian Workers Magazine, he also served the Moody Bible Institute and was an editor for Hope Publishing Company until his retirement in 1948. Runyan wrote a number of hymn texts, gospel songs, and hymn tunes.

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Texts by William M. Runyan (128)AsAuthority Languagessort descendingInstances
A closer walk with JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Before the march of Christ the MightyWilliam M. Runyan (Author)3
For the mercy Jesus will bestowWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Forgiven greatly, Lord, am IWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
God will not forget me, wherever my path may lieWilliam M. Runyan (Author)4
Hail, King of glory, hail, Lord of loveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
He cannot reject meWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
He loves, he saves, he keepsWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
I am sure of a home in heavenWilliam M. Runyan (Author)3
I cannot understand how God could love meWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
In the way our fathers trodWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
It was night within my soul when JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Live for others while on earth you liveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Many are waiting in darkness and sinWilliam M. Runyan (Author)1
Memory whispers to me nowWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Our lives are read by those who lookWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Prayer is the breath of the soul's deep lifeWilliam M. Runyan (Author)4
Since Jesus bore my weight of sorrowWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Tell it all to Jesus when the day goes wrongWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
The songs of the world may be manyWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
They were in the place of waitingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)4
Though my way be swept with stormWilliam M. Runyan (Author)2
Through ages long swept by the tempests of doubtWilliam M. Runyan (Author)4
Walking with my blessed Savior here belowWilliam M. Runyan (Author)3
Word of God, O sacred treasureW. M. R. (Author)3
Afar over the harvest field we roamW. M. R. (Author)English2
After the toil and the burdenWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
All that my soul in its sin can needWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English9
All will be over, every grief and sorrowWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
As a shepherd good and trueWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
As night that flees from the morning sunW. M. R. (Author)English2
At Calvary's cross where the cleansing tideWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Be loyal, O, be loyalWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Bend Thou all graciously, Father aboveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Called by the grace that Thy love doth extendWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Can we know that Jesus saves usWilliam M. Runyon (Author)English13
Christ is from the grave ascendedWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, With all Thy quickening powersW. M. R. (Author (Chorus))English1
Far from the fold of GodWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
Forward still, with face full forwardWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
From Heaven above, in His infinite loveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English15
From Olive's Hill, the multitude upgazingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English9
From the hills of far Judea, from the shores of GalileeW. M. R. (Author)English2
From the sins that scar and the things that marWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
God's wondrous grace! O how shall mortal tongue declareWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Hail, blest Redeemer! Thy praises bringingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English7
Have you heard of that wonderful story so trueW. M. Runyan (Author)English2
He came to me one day, this wondrous JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
He has it all, the struggle pastW. M. R. (Author)English2
How still are the waters where Jesus doth gatherWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
I am on the heavenly highway, With the Savior as my guideWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English11
I am yielding all to TheeWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
I can see it in my dreaming, that sweet land of strange reposeWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
I have Jesus in my heart, HallelujahWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
I marvel, O, I marvel soWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
I never have known so true a friend as JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
I will do what I can for my Savior todayRev. W. M. Runyan (Author)English2
If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smileWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English7
In childhood's morn of brimming gleeWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
In my heart a song is ringing, echoing God's loveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
In the fold were the ninety and nineW. M. R. (Author)English2
In the glory that shone from the cross one dayWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
In the midst of the heavenly home landWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Into the garden where shadows were creepingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
It is not far to the place of pardonW. M. R. (Author)English2
Jesus will keep me by power divineWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English5
Just a little while ere the last long mileWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
Just as you are there's a welcome for youWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English9
Like a life line flung over the raging seaWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Like a strain of sweetest musicWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English6
Like as a mother comfortethWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English11
Long time I wandered, wandered from JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Lord, I have shut the door, Speak now the wordWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English26
Lord, when to Thee our grieved hearts goWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
"My grace is sufficient," O, wondrous wordWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Near, near to Thee, help us to liveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
Not the love that I have had for JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
O church of Jesus, thy true sons honor theeWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
O tell me more of Jesus' loveWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
O the joy that here we may walk with JesusWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
O, there is a way, and it is the sure wayWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Only a little while for the love's sweet serviceWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Our God hath given promiseWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English11
Our light has grown dim and our hearts have grown coldW. M. R. (Author)English5
Proclaim the glad tidings to earth's farthest nationsW. M. R. (Author)English2
Revive Thy work, O Lord! Fill now each waiting heartWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Sang the angels long agoWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Since Jesus came, my night is turned to dayWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
So long have God's servants been callingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Soldiers of Jesus, clad in God's bright armorWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Some say it is a fable and that Jesus never cameW. M. R. (Author)English4
Souls are all about us, Knowing not the LordWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
Sweet morning comes with light and dewWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
The angels sang at the Savior's birthWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
The fields are white for harvest now, And souls before the Lord should bowWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
The gospel of the grace of GodW. M. R. (Author)English2
I'm the child of the King of kingsWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
The peace that like a river flowsW. M. R. (Author)English3
The voice of God is calling me in ways I can but hearWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
There is a fold where all secure they lieWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
They tell me there is one who knows my needWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
This be our task on life's long rugged wayWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Though a pilgrim and stranger hereWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Though foes assail us on the fieldWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English6
Though in life's stress thy heart aweary beWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Though the way seem long, the burden hard to bearWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
Thy kingdom come, is the prayer we are taught to prayW. M. R. (Author)English8
To Thy temple holy Come we now with praiseW. M. R. (Author)English5
Too long in the darkness our pathway has beenW. M. R. (Author)English2
'Twas God's own Son who came to earthWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English8
Up from the misty vales they goWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Upon the sea where our good ship sailsWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
We are the treasures of Christ the KingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English7
We cannot hope that every dayWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
We journey, it may be, through tempest and rainWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
We sing about heaven, its glory and gleamWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
We thank Thee for the brawny armW. M. R. (Author)English2
What a glorious day for meWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English3
When Jesus first came to my heart to abideWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English5
When, O, when art Thou comingWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English5
When the calls of duty are urging onW. M. R. (Author)English5
When the clouds over hanging have darkened the dayW. M. R. (Author)English2
Why struggle on unaided when the tide about you flows?William M. Runyan (Author)English2
Wonderful it is that Jesus cares for meWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
Wounded for our transgressionsWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English4
Yonder the promiseWilliam M. Runyan (Author)English2
Youth looking upward and onward todayWm. M. Runyan (Author)English2
ஓர் தாய் தன் பிள்ளையை அன்பாக (Ōr tāy taṉ piḷḷaiyai aṉpāka)William M. Runyan (Author)Tamil2
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