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[He came to me one day, this wondrous Jesus]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wendell P. Loveless Used With Text: He Came to Me One Day

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He Came to Me One Day

Author: William M. Runyan Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: He came to me one day, this wondrous Jesus Refrain First Line: Jesus, O Jesus, wonderful Friend to me Used With Tune: [He came to me one day, this wondrous Jesus]

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He Came to Me One Day

Author: William M. Runyan Hymnal: Favorites Number 1 #62 (1943) First Line: He came to me one day, this wondrous Jesus Refrain First Line: Jesus, O Jesus, wonderful Friend to me Languages: English Tune Title: [He came to me one day, this wondrous Jesus]

He Came to Me One Day

Author: William M. Runyan Hymnal: Radio Songs and Choruses of the Gospel No. 1 #24 (1934) First Line: He came to me one day, this wondrous Jesus Refrain First Line: Jesus, O Jesus, wonderful Friend to me Languages: English Tune Title: [He came to me one day, this wondrous Jesus]

He Came to Me One Day

Author: William M. Runyan Hymnal: Radio Songs and Choruses #37 (1951) First Line: He came to me one day, this wondrous Jesus Refrain First Line: Jesus, O Jesus, wonderful Friend to me Languages: English Tune Title: [He came to me one day, this wondrous Jesus]

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William M. Runyan

1870 - 1957 Author of "He Came to Me One Day" in Favorites Number 1 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

Wendell P. Loveless

1892 - 1987 Composer of "[He came to me one day, this wondrous Jesus]" in Favorites Number 1 Rv Wendell Phillips Loveless USA 1892-1987, Born in Wheaton, IL, he first engaged in business in Chicago. In 1914 he became a member of an entertainment group that toured the U.S. on the Chatauqua circuit. Spending six years with the group he learned voice, piano, dramatics, and MC duties, later managing the group. He later used these talents in Christian ministry. In 1917 he married Velma Stone, and they had three children: Robert, David, and Wendell Jr. He was a Lieutenant in the Marine Corps during WWI. He was converted through reading the Bible at home. He joined the Moody Bible Institute (MBI) in 1926, first as business manager of the extension department. He later became director of the Moody Bible Institute radio station WMBI in Chicago from 1926-1947. He then became an itinerant Bible teacher. He later pastored the Wheaton Evangelical Free Church, Community Church in Boca Raton, FL, and First Chinese Church of Christ in Honolulu, HI, continuing his radio ministry in the last two locations (also managing station KAIM Honolulu). In 1960 he assigned all his copyrights to Hope Publishing Company. He wrote popular songs and choruses, many found in hymnals published by Hope, and some translated into other languages. He authored several books: “Glimpses of Christ n Psalm IX” (1937); “Sunrise meditations” (1940); “New radio songs & choruses of the gospel #3” (1940); New radio songs & choruses of the gospel #4” (1942); “Little talks on great words” (1942?); “Christ and the believer in the Song of Songs” (1945); “Plain talks on practical truths” (1945); “New sunrise meditations” (1945); “Manual of gospel broadcasting” (1946); “Plain talks on Romans” (1946); “New radio songs & choruses of the gospel #5” (1946). He died in Honolulu, HI. He was an author, compiler, performer, editor, narrator, composer, actor, and writer. John Perry