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Come, O my doubting soul, attend
Author: Susanna Harrison Appears in 17 hymnals
Come, O my doubting soul, attend
Come, O my doubting soul, attend
Hymnal: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected, for the Use of Christians. (5th ed.) #B136 (1838) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Languages: English
Come, O my doubting soul, attend
Come, O my doubting soul, attend
Hymnal: Wiatt's Impartial Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs from various authors on a variety of useful and entertaining subjects... #XXXIX (1809)
Come, O my doubting soul, attend
Come, O my doubting soul, attend
Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected, for the Use of Christians. (8th ed.) #b136 (1840) Languages: English
Come, O my doubting soul, attend
Susannah Harrison
1752 - 1784 Person Name: Susanna Harrison Author of "Come, O my doubting soul, attend" Harrison, Susanna, invalided from her work as a domestic servant at the age of 20, published Songs in the Night, 1780. This included 133 hymns, and passed through ten editions. She is known by "Begone, my worldly cares, away," and "O happy souls that love the Lord." Born in 1752 and died Aug. 3, 1784.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Harrison, Susanna. (1752--August 3, 1784, Ipswich, England). The preface to the first edition of her collected hymns, Songs in the night, 1780, states that she was "a very obscure young woman, and quite destitute of the advantages of education, as well as under great bodily affliction. Her father dying when she was young, and leaving a large family unprovided for, she went out to service at sixteen years of age."
In August 1722, she became ill, probably with tuberculosis, and returned to her mother's home. She taught herself to write and in her remaining years she wrote 142 hymns which, with a few meditations, were published as Songs in the night by an anonymous editor, perhaps her rector. So sincere yet vivid is the expression of her faith as she faced certain death that by 1847 there had been eleven editions printed in England and seven additional ones in America.
Individual hymns remained popular in America during much of the nineteenth century due to the constant preoccupation with death in both urban and frontier life, reflected in the large sections of funeral hymns in most hymnals.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
Susannah Harrison
