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AMAZON

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Daniel Brink Towner Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 55465 35177 7121 Used With Text: Take The Water Of Life

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Take The Water Of Life

Author: Julia H. Johnston Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: We cannot live without it Refrain First Line: Oh, come and take the water Lyrics: 1 We cannot live without it, Naught else can satisfy; We need the living water That cometh from on high. Refrain: Oh, come and take the water He offers you today! For still the Savior calleth, Why will ye go away? 1 The fountain ever floweth, Refreshing, pure and free. Enough for all who need it, Enough for you and me. [Refrain] 3 Whoever will, may take it, For Christ the Savior’s sake; But none may know the blessing, Who will not come and take. [Refrain] Used With Tune: AMAZON Text Sources: Bible Study Songs, by Bertha F. Vella and Daniel. B. Towner (Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1899)

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Take The Water Of Life

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8106 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D First Line: We cannot live without it Refrain First Line: Oh, come and take the water Lyrics: 1 We cannot live without it, Naught else can satisfy; We need the living water That cometh from on high. Refrain: Oh, come and take the water He offers you today! For still the Savior calleth, Why will ye go away? 1 The fountain ever floweth, Refreshing, pure and free. Enough for all who need it, Enough for you and me. [Refrain] 3 Whoever will, may take it, For Christ the Savior’s sake; But none may know the blessing, Who will not come and take. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: AMAZON
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Take the Water of Life

Author: Julia H. Johnston Hymnal: Bible Study Songs #93 (1899) First Line: We cannot live without it Refrain First Line: O, come and take the water Topics: Picture Songs Languages: English Tune Title: [We cannot live without it]

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D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Person Name: Daniel Brink Towner Composer of "AMAZON" in The Cyber Hymnal Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

Julia H. Johnston

1849 - 1919 Author of "Take The Water Of Life" in The Cyber Hymnal Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)