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.

Bert Polman


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