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William M. Runyan
1870 - 1957 Author of "Jesus Came" 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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Albert C. Fisher
1886 - 1946 Composer of "[I have Jesus in my heart, Hallelujah!]" in Victorious Revival Songs Born: March 10, 1886, New Berne, North Carolina.
Died: February 6, 1946, Dallas, Texas.
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas.
Fisher attended Fort Worth University and Polytechnic College, Fort Worth, Texas; Vanderbilt University; Southern Methodist University; and earned his Doctor of Divinity degree at Asbury College, Kentucky. He moved to Fort Worth in 1908, and for a decade served as a general evangelist for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In World War I, he was a military chaplain. After the war, he worked in the East Oklahoma Conference and (beginning in 1944), the North Texas Conference. His works include:
Best Revival Songs (Nashville, Tennessee: The Cokesbury Press, 1924) (music editor)
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