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I'll be one, dear Lord, to seek a soul

Author: Baylus Benjamin McKinney Appears in 2 hymnals

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Author: Baylus Benjamin McKinney Hymnal: Songs of Life, for Use in the Sunday School ... #d63 (1946) First Line: I'll be one, dear Lord, to seek a soul Refrain First Line: I'll be one to seek

I'll be one, dear Lord, to seek a soul

Author: Baylus Benjamin McKinney Hymnal: Look and Live Songs #d49 (1945) Languages: English

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B. B. McKinney

1886 - 1952 Person Name: Baylus Benjamin McKinney Author of "I'll be one, dear Lord, to seek a soul" Pseudonyms-- Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin) Otto Nellen Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh) ----- Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942. McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Worth, where Isham E. Reynolds asked him to join the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He taught at the seminary until 1932, then pastored in at the Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth (1931–35). In 1935, McKinney became music editor for the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee. McKinney wrote words and music for about 150 songs, and music for 115 more. --© Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)